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		<title>Customer-Centric Process Design is Clashing with Organizational Design: Which is more likely to “give?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These clashes are only starting to occur, but will grow in number and intensity as pressures to conduct business “the customer’s way” mount. ]]></description>
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		<title>Is Putting Customers First Disruptive Change?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Putting it plainly, migrating from I-O to O-I is much harder than it looks. It’s change. Lots of change. And to answer the title question, disruptive change, especially at the organizational level. ]]></description>
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		<title>Do we pay enough attention to emergency processes involving customers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Costco, which I frequently include in my short list of Outside-In, customer first companies. 
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		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=246</link>
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		<title>What’s the consequence for marketing, sales &amp; service of poor business/IT communication?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For sure, communication has improved over the past 10 years. The “cold war” has ended, and the two sides are talking. However, this dialog can often be described by one of my son’s tee-shirts, which says: “I can see your lips moving, but all I hear is blah, blah, blah! And almost everywhere we go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Should we strike a balance between giving customers what they want and giving them what they’ll come to value?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giving customers what they want the way they want it often does them no favors. In particular, providing customers immediate gratification often comes at a cost to actual value delivered.  Customer empowerment complicates this issue. Not that I would ever say a bad word about customers (or clients), but they can be incredibly short-sighted at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Why Can’t Business Streamline Front &amp; Back Office Operations?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest McKinsey Quarterly reports new data that should upset those designing organizations and managing operations in O/S (office/service) settings. While manufacturing managed to reduce its expense-to-sales ratio by 2.7% over the past year, despite 90&#38; 0f cost-cutting initiatives failing to last beyond 3 years, the SG&#38;A (sales, general % administration – which is basically front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the “Secret Sauce” that Lets Only Some Companies Go Outside-In &amp; Put Customers First?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Successfully migrating to Outside-In requires one part steely-eyed recognition that customers now hold the upper hand in buyer-seller relationships; one part shrewd assessment of how to take advantage of this customer empowerment; and one part dispassionate willingness to redesign their organizations from top to bottom―and from the customer in―regardless of where the bodies fall (or fly). ]]></description>
		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Why Would Wells Fargo Betray Its HSA Customers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wells Fargo is callously treating customer money as its own, earning money on it, and getting around to “dispensing” money to customers on its own schedule.
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		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=225</link>
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		<title>How Do 60 Minute Wait Times &amp; 10% Unemployment Relate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Believe me, I&#8217;m not trying to use Wells Fargo as a whipping boy. But when customer service gets this intolerably bad, someone in San Francisco needs to wake up. Or are they dead?
My wife &#38; I had an HSA (Health Savings Account) with Wells Fargo. I won&#8217;t bore you with all the customer-unfriendly stuff they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://h-ym.com/blog/?p=221</link>
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		<title>The Lunacy of Cost-Cutting by Cutting Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To create lasting change, companies have to remove the spring, not pull on it. ]]></description>
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