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ESG and the RFP: How to Assess Your Outsourcer’s ESG Efforts

BlueOcean

The first mainstream mention of ESG as a concept came from the United Nations in 2004 in their report titled “ Who Cares Wins.” Although they may be committed to equitable and ethical practices, it takes extra resources they don’t have to gather and interpret the data that can actually prove their ESG efforts. Book an appointment here.

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Part 1: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

It is not simply good enough to strive for service level performance targets and high customer satisfaction scores without pursuing an expected positive outcome from these efforts. World-class Support organizations are driven by the results of their efforts and not simply the level of effort.

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Part 3: The Strategic Role of B2B Customer Support

Team Support

A Support organization that achieves above average speed of answer, higher than average closure rates, or better than average satisfaction scores cannot claim success from operations unless these efforts translate into a tangible business benefit.

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7 Key benefits to feedback loops, plus examples

BirdEye

By analyzing customer survey scores and reading customer comments, these managers can quickly act to resolve customer frustrations. You can also proactively collect feedback by using additional resources, such as a net promoter score survey, also known as an NPS survey, or gathering information from employees working directly with customers.

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CX vs. UX: The Yin and Yang of Customer Loyalty

InteractionMetrics

Founded in 2004, Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design broke down Design Thinking into five distinct phases: Empathize : Understand your customer. Sometimes called brainstorming, this inventive step is a team effort and aims to identify a few strong solutions to the problem defined in Step 2.

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Customer Experience Professionals: Why We Do What We Do

ijgolding

Senior management wanted to outsource the function but when the outsourcer wouldn’t sign up to a KPI that targeted them with maintaining a 95% “satisfied or very satisfied” CSAT score (which is the figure the Helpdesk was consistently achieving at the time), management quickly changed their minds!

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5 Challenges to Proactive Customer Success

Amity

In 2004, Salesforce came up with the Customer for Life program, and set the foundation for all of the reasons we are so focused on Customer Success today. There are solid ways to mitigate these distractions and interruptions, but it takes some active effort to change and structure your daily workflow to become a more efficient CSM.