Author: Christian Velten

Collective CX Exec Coaching on enterprise level

Achievements Business Events Leadership Pharma

When I joined the new enterprise-level position as a Strategic Lead for Digital Customer Experiences at Roche Pharma in early 2022, I firstly did an in-depth analysis of the internal landscape of customer experience (CX) tools, methodologies and initiatives in place. And what I found was a colorful bunch of innovative assets and committed individuals. But all more or less disconnected, and all one-man/woman armies. At the same time I had personally decided to change my own strategy to making Roche more customer experiences driven from preaching CX to executing CX. “From talking to walking”. To make it real in…

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Leaving “X” (the artist formerly known as “Twitter”)

Opinion

Dear “family & friends”, Just a quick update that I have decided to leave Twitter. Actually, I am not happy with it for quite some while already. I am basically fine with Elon’s mindset towards “free speech”. And I appreciate him as an inspiring innovator challenging existing dogmas. But I am not happy with Elon’s autistic not-consideration of me as a customer. The renaming to “X” … is OK for me. If you are (partially) living in the digital space for >30 years like me, you have learned that nothing is for eternity. But what really hit and annoyed me…

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“How to Build an Omnichannel Customer Experience”

Digital Events

I will be at the CX 3.0 Conference, held virtually next week Thursday, September 8th, at 9 a.m. CET. Find me representing Roche and speaking about “How to Build an Omnichannel Customer Experience”, where we have agreed on an interview-style presentation (so, no boring slides but true facts 😉 ). Just realized that my highly appreciated colleague Krishna Ranchhoddas, Head of Customer Experience & Continuous Improvement Leader at Tecan, will also speak the day after (September 9th) about “How can the Voice of Customer drive the organization’s strategy forward”.

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Assessment of Roche Pharma CX Ecosystem and Gap Analysis

Achievements Business Pharma

After moving to an enterprise role as Strategic Lead Digital CX at Roche Pharma, my first effort had been to assess the internal readiness of the company for executing on state-of-the-art CX models and approaches. I provided an internal ‘Roche Pharma state of CX’ report which was revealing … The results of the assessment helped me to prioritize next steps and enabled me to take action on. One outcome had been that Voice-of-the-customer is absolutely foundational (how can provide better customer experiences without knowing costumers’ experiences) I took the opportunity to take the lead of the just-about-to-start corporate VoC Program.…

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From “patients” to “customers” and why it matters

Events Opinion Pharma

Those who know me a bit longer know me for being a big advocate for seeing patients as customers (of healthcare providers, pharma included). This can be perceived as a quite provocative statement. But I think, I have some quite good arguments at hand. A big thank you goes to Mark Doyle by “A life in a day” for the opportunity to share my thoughts today, to discuss them, and to the be challenged on it. Feel free to watch the recording on the ‘A life in a day’ website, please. Read more at …

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