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		<title>Customer Care or Customer Culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies create customer facing organizations that are given the responsibility to garner customer loyalty no matter how bad the products may be or how many times the warehouse screws up an order. Good companies use these front line organizations to listen to the customer and then use the feedback to improve the rest of the organization. In good companies these folks sit with the c-suite and partner across the business silos. In good companies the incentives are aligned to balance customer value and shareholder value. It is not a mission statement, it is a process and it is a team sport. Bad companies create the organizations, survey customers, justify the results but make the customer a responsibility of just the front office. 
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		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/12/04/customer-care-or-customer-culture/</link>
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		<title>“Why do you hate my bags?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the worst day of the Symposium... but only because it was the LAST day and I was left wanting more. Isn't that a good sign? If we leave wanting more it is like having a great meal, you really want to continue eating because it was so good, but you are now full. I leave the Symposium feeling like I have a lot to digest but wishing I could continue to interact and learn with the great folks that attended and world class team from ASU.
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		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/11/07/%e2%80%9cwhy-do-you-hate-my-bags%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nobody cares how good you were”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Nobody cares how good you were” This was one of many good quotes from Larry Winget who entertained,energized and educated as the final speaker of  the day at ASU's  Compete Through Service Symposium Day 2. Larry, who wrote the book “People are Idiots and I can Prove It”, takes no prisoners when he speaks.]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/11/06/nobody-cares-how-good-you-were%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>What is your Karma Footprint?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dateline: Compete Through Service Symposium , DAY 1.

It is my pleasure to bring you some of the highlights from this conference. For those that are attending, I hope that you will add your thoughts and comments. For those who could not attend because of the current business pressures, I hope that this will give you some insight.]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-your-karma-footprint/</link>
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		<title>Shape your world, shape your career.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those that regularly follow my Blog you know that I am a huge advocate of education for service professionals. In fact, my involvement and ongoing interest in service science ( SSME ) has been to increase research and education around the services industry. Let’s face it; people are not typically prepared for a service economy career coming out of universities.
 See more about Shaping Your World at ASU Symposium Nov 4-6]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/09/22/shape-your-world-shape-your-career/</link>
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		<title>Service Science Lecture Series Starting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Service Science Lecture Series Start Sept 10th 2009 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/08/11/service-science-lecture-series-starting/</link>
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		<title>Zappos and Amazon.com Join Forces…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit that I am torn. I do not know whether to be happy that two inventive and customer oriented companies might make each other better or sad that a great culture like Zappos might get corrupted. In truth, I can certainly understand the benefits to both organizations of joining forces ]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/07/27/zappos-and-amazoncom-join-forces%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Mobility Services, a new model for automobile companies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if GM,  a.k.a. “General Motors” was now called “Global Mobility” or even “General Mobility”, would that change what they do?  A name change alone would not change things perhaps;  but if the name was changed because of a new way of thinking about the value that they could bring to the world, it might.]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/07/16/mobility-services-a-new-model-automobile-companies/</link>
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		<title>Service; a new religion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was invited to attend a “Enterprise Service Transformation Summit” ( ht<a href="http://www.opnevents.com/programs/transformation/">tp://www.opnevents.com/programs/transformation</a>/ ) hosted by Oracle, IBM and Motorola in Chicago on July 15th. I was delighted to see the agenda and subject matter that fit so well into what I think represents the future of business. ]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/07/09/service-a-new-religion/</link>
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		<title>Is there a better way to “listen” to customers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Service is all about delivering value to our customers. We all say that we deliver value, but how do we know? Service has been described in the service science literature as a process of value co-creation between the provider and the customers. Assuming that this is true, how do we gather the input from the customers? ]]></description>
		<link>http://servtrans.com/blog/2009/06/16/is-there-a-better-way-to-%e2%80%9clisten%e2%80%9d-to-customers/</link>
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