The Human Experience: How To Make Life Better For Your Customers And Create A More Successful Organization by John Sills

About the Book

The essential guide to creating a successful organization by making things easier, better, and more straightforward for your customers.

Across all sectors, organizations’ fixation with functionality has meant that the ‘human’ elements of the customer’s experience have become neglected.

Strict processes and automated procedures have created organizations full of people who aren’t allowed to act in a ‘human’ way.

As a result, and despite these new technologies, customers are no more satisfied than they were a decade ago (according to the Institute of Customer Service) and, according to Edelman, they now trust big organizations even less than they did in the past.

In The Human Experience, John Sills draws upon extensive research and illustrative case studies to explain that the emotional experience is just as important as the functional one, and, if done right, will create a more efficient business.

He also demonstrates that the customer experience is not just the responsibility of front-line employees, but shared across the company, from the CEO operating as the spokesperson of the business to the programmers developing a seamless and welcoming user interface.

Whether you’re a well-established incumbent or an early-stage start-up, on either end of your product or service is a human.

Packed full of practical advice and engaging case studies, The Human Experience is the ultimate guide to creating a culture and an experience with humanity at its heart, helping to develop a customer base that will stay with an organization, and a company that will grow in an increasingly efficient way.

About the Author

After starting his career at a market stall in Essex, John Sills has spent the last twenty-five years working in and with companies around the world to make things better for customers.

He’s advised organizations such as Sky, The Body Shop, Ovo Energy, Invesco, Morrisons, eBay, and UNICEF.

Now Managing Partner at customer-led growth company The Foundation, John also spent twelve years at HSBC, starting on the frontline and finishing as Head of Customer Innovation.

John works closely with Young Enterprise, a charity that helps young adults become the next generation of entrepreneurs, and is a mentor for The School of Marketing.

His writing has been featured in The Guardian, Management Today, and WARC, as well as having work exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, The Foundling Museum, and as part of the Bloomsbury Festival.

And, interesting fact – he was an award-winning model!

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Links…

• The Human Experience: How To Make Life Better For Your Customers And Create A More Successful Organization by John Sills (Amazon)
• John Sills (website)
• John Sills (LinkedIn)
• John Sills (Twitter)
• The Foundation
• National Customer Rage Study
• Vanguard Consulting – Failure Demand
• The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort by Bill Price and David Jaffe (Marketing Book Podcast interview)
• The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth by Tiffani Bova (Marketing Book Podcast interview)
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• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
• A Technique For Producing Ideas: A Simple Five Step Formula For Producing Ideas by James Webb Young
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland (Marketing Book Podcast interview)
• Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioural Science to Ethics and Compliance by Christian Hunt
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
• The Customer Copernicus: How to be Customer-Led by Charlie Dawson and Seán Meehan

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