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Author: Nick Bush

This author has written 99 articles

Top Picks

  • Think differently to find the best talent: Recruitment in a disruptive digital age
  • Turning leadership on its head: Finding the leaders around you
  • How buying on emotion led to one of the best customer experiences I’ve had.
  • Nothing goes together like a bird feeder, chocolate and the Bossa Nova (?!)
  • What the NHS can teach us about customer relationship management

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Nick

Nick is a business advisor and non-executive director who helps organisations improve their focus and performance by developing customer-centred strategies and business plans. He has helped companies transform the way they do business through better strategies, change management and technology, with a relentless focus on the customer.
Nick has worked across all kinds of business sectors from telecoms to banking, chemicals to charities - as owner of Open Chord his current focus is on helping arts and non-profit organisations to be more successful by creating a solid planning foundation that will help them grow.

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  • Think differently to find the best talent: Recruitment in a disruptive digital age
  • Turning leadership on its head: Finding the leaders around you
  • How buying on emotion led to one of the best customer experiences I’ve had.
  • Nothing goes together like a bird feeder, chocolate and the Bossa Nova (?!)
  • What the NHS can teach us about customer relationship management

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Read more about the article Lynn Hunsaker: creating aligment for CX success

Lynn Hunsaker: creating aligment for CX success

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:February 7, 2019
  • Post category:Podcast

In the first of our podcast interviews, Charles Bennett talks to ClearAction Continuum founder Lynn Hunsaker. Their discussion starts with a recognition that the majority of customer experience transformation efforts…

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Read more about the article Will customer experience survive Brexit?

Will customer experience survive Brexit?

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:January 30, 2019
  • Post category:Article/Customer Innovation/Featured

The UK’s Brexit crisis means more investment in CX not less I write this article from a country under siege. For months the UK has been in the grip of…

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Read more about the article Webinar: Bringing CX into the boardroom

Webinar: Bringing CX into the boardroom

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:January 22, 2019
  • Post category:Top Picks/Webinar

In this informative webinar, produced by professional networking organisation InTouch, NextTen's director of delivery Nick Bush offers some useful advice on how to power up boardroom discussions by putting the…

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Read more about the article Good news for Blue Monday: the High Street’s not dead – yet

Good news for Blue Monday: the High Street’s not dead – yet

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:January 21, 2019
  • Post category:Article/Customer Innovation

(2 minute read) Customer-centricity is the way forward It’s that time of year when we have a succession of variously-coloured days: Black Friday pre-Christmas and Blue Monday today, allegedly the…

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Read more about the article How strong is your “Alt-CV”?

How strong is your “Alt-CV”?

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:January 14, 2019
  • Post category:Article/Leadership

Paying attention to the things not on a CV can be just as important as the things that are on it Like most people I like to keep my CV…

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Read more about the article The death of high street retail? Bring it on!

The death of high street retail? Bring it on!

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:January 7, 2019
  • Post category:Article/Customer Innovation

The survivors of "retail hell" will be those that are prepared to change the way they think about customer experience Reports of the death of the high street may have…

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Read more about the article Whose clock are you on?

Whose clock are you on?

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:November 27, 2018
  • Post category:Customer Innovation

Customer journey designs ignore the customer clock at their peril Unless you’re afflicted by a particular neurosis you probably don’t spend every minute of the day counting down the time…

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Read more about the article Making purpose part of customer experience

Making purpose part of customer experience

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:November 21, 2018
  • Post category:Customer Innovation

One retailer’s principled stand shows an intrinsic understanding of customer outcomes Aren’t orang-utans cute? Would you like one in your home? Well, now you can if you shop at Iceland,…

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Read more about the article Are you making CX too much of a hard sell?

Are you making CX too much of a hard sell?

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:November 14, 2018
  • Post category:Customer Innovation

Make it easy for your stakeholders and your job will become easier too Selling sand to Saudis? Carrying coals to Newcastle? Or just trying to convince your senior stakeholders to…

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Read more about the article Why bother with customer journey mapping?

Why bother with customer journey mapping?

  • Post author:Nick Bush
  • Post published:October 30, 2018
  • Post category:Customer Innovation/Top Picks

It’s a powerful technique, but only under certain conditions Be honest now: if I were to ask you where your customer journey maps are kept, could you – hand on…

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