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Your service: heartlessly perfect or perfectly heartless?

In a mass customization it is necessary to integrate CRM technology, design the right processes for different customer segments, identify new value generation opportunities using VGM (Value Generation Matrix) and hire the right people to convert value into revenue. Continue reading

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My CEM Birthday Experience

Birthday congratulation messages often produce a negative customer experience. Learn how to get it right. Continue reading

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Oh no, Iberia, you just screwed up again. Do you hate premium customers?

Iberia badly slapped their best customers straight in the face by applying credit card fees also to their Iberia Plus Gold and Platinum members, even on big-ticket business class tickets, ruining all the trust they built up over the last month during which they managed to improve some basic service aspects! Continue reading

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Disruption management: why risk losing your customers?

UPDATE: one week later, same flight, same delay, but this time Iberia did a BRILLIANT job. See below. Just have a look at the photo on the left: it’s a quiet February afternoon at Iberia’s Madrid hub, but for some reason … Continue reading

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Dear alliances, please don’t mislead your customers!

Oneworld, Star Alliance, SkyTeam – all three global alliances claim that serving customers better is their raison d’être. Passengers of now merged BA – Iberia, but also their North American Oneworld stepbrother American Airlines, are currently bombarded with marketing messages, … Continue reading

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Can we educate unruly passengers?

The pushback of a fully loaded domestic Iberia flight, perfectly on time for its 7:15 a.m. departure, suddenly stopped. Moments later the Captain told us that one of the runways of Madrid Barajas had just been closed because of a … Continue reading

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Iberia: Is common sense too much to ask for?

Iberia’s premium customer service practice is definitely not best practice as it does not not offer downgraded passengers EU regulated compensations Continue reading

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