Global Head of First Choice
He made customer focus simple enough to put into practice, and powerful enough to scale globally.
Across countries, cultures, and functions, a CX program can easily become another process to follow. Christoph wanted something more: a shared way of working where people understood their role in making the experience better.
Christoph helped turn a complex, methodology-driven approach into a simple idea people could put into practice: See it. Sort it. Fix it. See the customer issue. Understand what needs to change. Fix it — or find the person who can.
Across 10 customer journeys and more than 120 global markets, DHL brings customer signals across languages into one view, making it easier to see what needs attention and spot patterns. From there, everyone has a role: respond, solve what you can, and get it to the right people when you can’t.
Countries and territories reached by the program
Shipments moving through DHL Express each day
Customer journeys connected across the experience
Records processed since 2021
| 贵谤辞尘… | 罢辞… |
|---|---|
| Tracking feedback across disconnected markets | Bringing signals together to see patterns globally |
| Stopping at the individual issue | Looking for what needs to change at the source |
| Tackling customer issues function by function | Bringing the right teams together to solve them |
| Teaching complex CX methodologies | Making the expected behaviors simple and clear |
Strip away the complexity. Give people a clear idea they can understand, remember, and put into practice every day.
Work alongside teams. Demonstrate what good looks like, help them practice it, and give them the confidence to do it themselves.
Make customer focus something leaders talk about, reinforce with their teams, and hold people accountable for putting into practice.
Before adding another process, define what you want people to do when they see something affecting the customer. Then help them put it into practice.
Define the behavior you want people to demonstrate
Make it easy to understand and apply in different roles
Show people what it looks like in their day-to-day work
Reinforce it until it becomes part of how the organization operates
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