The Loyalty Leader - Q3 2007

Feature Article
Do 'High Tech' and Hospitality Belong in the
Same Sentence?

By Rob Rush, President & CEO, LRA Worldwide, Inc.

Rob Rush - President & CEO, LRA Worldwide, Inc.

Twenty years after hanging out our shingle, my partner and I have built a business that has grown from its roots providing quality assurance audit programs to the hotel industry, to a consultancy supporting a variety of industries in a niche that we have helped define – Customer Experience Management, or CEM.

One of the foremost elements of our point of view on the customer experience is that in any organization, people, process and technology must be aligned around a shared vision and delivery of the optimal customer experience. With this message as a linchpin, we’ve secured clients in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and a number of other different industries where the proper way of making the "Heavenly Bed" is hardly relevant. Full Article

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What is CEM? LRA's Practice Areas CEM Strategy Consulting Standards Development and Content Management Organizational Development and Training Research Quality Assurance

LRA on the Conference Circuit


The North American Conference on
Customer Management

September 30 – October 3
World Center Marriott
Orlando, FL

Use the following LRA discount code to receive a 15% discount on event registration fees: SPONM2000LRA.

 

 

Tekes Presentation


LRA Worldwide Profiled in Service Innovation Study Commissioned by the Government
of Finland


Study Presented at the 2007 Tekes Annual Summit
Helsinki, Finland (May 11, 2007)

Download the LRA Case Study (Adobe PDF)

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New Clients

We welcome these new clients to the LRA family:

  Lowell Memorial Auditorium   Clarion Collection   Kessler   Qatar National Hotels
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LRA in the News

Golf Business   Up Close and Personal -
By Ronnie Musselwhite


Golf Business

August 2007
(Adobe PDF Format)
  1to1   The DNA of a Customer-Centric Culture - By Eric Krell

1to1 Magazine

July/August 2007
             
Casino Journal   Creating a Strong Internal Brand: You Can Take it to the Bank - By Rob Rush

Casino Journal

August 2007
  Training Magazine   Train the Leader – By Conni Billé

Training Magazine
August 2007
             
HMM June 18   Problem Resolution Revisited: Get it Right the First Time - By John Roberto

Hotel & Motel Management

June 18, 2007
  1to1 Magazine   Is Your Compensation Strategy Costing You Customers? -
By Eric Krell


1to1 Magazine

May/June 2007
(Adobe PDF Format)
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LRA News

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LRA Worldwide Launches Spanish Language Website

LRAWorldwide.com “En Español” Caters to Client Base and Business Development Opportunities in Europe, Latin America

HORSHAM, Pennsylvania; June 9, 2007 – Does the term “Gestión de la Experiencia del Consumidor” ring a bell?

Perhaps the term is more recognizable as Customer Experience Management, or CEM. LRA Worldwide, Inc., one of the leaders in the rapidly-growing consulting discipline of Customer Experience Management, has launched its website in Spanish in order to capitalize on growing interest in its services throughout Spanish-speaking Europe and Latin America. The site, which went live on June 29, 2007, is indicative of LRA’s growing international client base and an influx of business development opportunities from Spanish-speaking countries. Full Release

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Personnel News

Daniela Piacenza Joins LRA Worldwide as a Senior Research Consultant

Native Venezuelan Will Work with LRA’s International Research Clients

HORSHAM, Pennsylvania; June 25, 2007 – LRA Worldwide, Inc., a leading consulting and research firm in the rapidly-growing field of Customer Experience Management (CEM), announced that Daniela Piacenza has joined the firm as a Senior Research Consultant. Piacenza, who is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian, will work primarily on LRA’s international client projects, as well as on business development opportunities in Europe and Latin America. Full Release

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About LRA Worldwide, Inc.

LRA Worldwide, Inc., is a leading consulting, organizational development and research company that specializes in Customer Experience Management (CEM). LRA helps companies and brands design and deliver the optimal customer experience across all key touch points using an integrated suite of services that measure and improve service quality, customer satisfaction, employee performance, loyalty, customer advocacy and profitability. LRA specializes in “operationalizing the brand” – turning brand promise and customer strategy into operational reality.  LRA’s tactical CEM practice areas include Customer Experience Strategy Design, Standards Development & Content Management, Organizational Development & Training, Research and Quality Assurance & Mystery Shopping; these are either deployed together in a strategic manner to continually monitor and improve the customer experience or deployed individually to address a specific client tactical need.

LRA's clients include some of the world’s leading companies and brands, including Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos, the PGA TOUR, Albertsons Supermarkets, the NBA and First Niagara Financial Group. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.LRAworldwide.com.

LRA Worldwide, Inc.
300 Welsh Road
Building 1, Suite 200
Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044.2263, USA
Tel: +1.215.957.1999
Fax: +1.215.957.6570
e-Mail: info@lraworldwide.com
www.LRAWorldwide.com

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What is CEM? LRA's Practice Areas CEM Strategy Consulting Standards Development and Content Management Organizational Development and Training Research Quality Assurance