Colin Shaw & Ryan Hamilton 
The Intuitive Customer [PDF ebook] 
7 Imperatives For Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level

1. Too Often Organizations Are Solving The Wrong Problem
2. Guiding Principle 1: Customers Are Irrational Don’t Fight It, Embrace It
3. Guiding Principle 2: Customer’s Minds Can Be In Conflict With Themselves
4. Guiding Principle 3: Easy Is More Important Than You Think It Is
5. Guiding Principle 4: Customers Are What They Do
6. Guiding Principle 5: Customer Loyalty Is Only A Memory
7. Guiding Principle 6: Customers Do Things And They Don’t Know Why
8. Guiding Principle 7: Organizations Halo’s Are Slipping
9. What Do Organizations Need To Do?
10. Pulling It All Together

Colin Shaw, Founder & CEO, Beyond Philosophy. A pioneer in the field of Customer Experience, Colin has written four best-selling books on the subject. Colin’s background is in operational line management. He has held many senior exec positions in corporate life before founding Beyond Philosophy in 2002. Under Colin’s leadership Beyond Philosophy have helped many of the world’s most prestigious organizations improve their Customer Experience including American Express, Fed Ex, IBM and Caterpillar. One client, Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, improved their net promoter score by 40 points in 30 months, which gave a 10% rise in shipping volumes using Beyond Philosophy’s methodology.

Ryan Hamilton, Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Atlanta, Georgia. Ryan is an award-winning teacher and researcher in the field of consumer psychology. In 2011 was named one of ‘The World’s Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40′.His research investigates shopper decision-making: how brands, prices and choice architecture influence decision making at the point of purchase. His research and teaching are focused on identifying some of the surprising ways firms can use psychology to better understand and serve their customers.