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Design and Development of the CEM-Dashboard: A Diagnostic Tool to Determine Your Current Position and Improvement Directions in Customer Experience Management

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Customization 4.0

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Customer experience management is gaining attention from companies in the latest years. Companies realize that it is not anymore sufficient to only meet customers’ functional demands but that customers are also in need of a pleasant treatment, personalized attention and communication, trouble-free and smooth operations, and good feelings from interacting and transacting with companies. We call this total set of positive emotions that customers are looking for the customer experience.

This customer experience can be managed as many researchers and practitioners have stated. For this, several model-based approaches for customer experience management have been developed by academics and practitioners, but usually they prescribe actions on a high strategic level and omit to close the PDCA loop with an assessment of the results. Organizations that are looking for specific actions and their effects because of their closeness to the customers, like customer contact centers, mass customization producers, web retailers, and service providers, therefore feel neglected and surpassed by these models.

To fill this gap, we designed and developed a diagnostic and benchmark tool, the CEM-Dashboard, for such companies to determine their current position and improvement directions in their efforts to implement customer experience management in the company and its processes.

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    CIMO is an abbreviation of problem in context, intervention, generative mechanism(s), and outcome(s). CIMO propositions are formatted in these four aspects: To solve this problem in context (C), one should apply these interventions (I), which trigger these generative mechanisms (M) and therefore lead to these outcomes (O).

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  1. 3CI Customer Co-Creation, Waalwijk, Netherlands

    Marcel Weber

  2. Onderzoekfabriek, Harderberg, Netherlands

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  1. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stephan Hankammer

  2. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Kjeld Nielsen

  3. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Frank T. Piller

  4. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Günther Schuh

  5. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Ning Wang

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Weber, M., Hofsink, A. (2018). Design and Development of the CEM-Dashboard: A Diagnostic Tool to Determine Your Current Position and Improvement Directions in Customer Experience Management. In: Hankammer, S., Nielsen, K., Piller, F., Schuh, G., Wang, N. (eds) Customization 4.0. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77556-2_25

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