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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.” Likewise, many organizations have established their own ESG guidelines and metrics—or been certified by third party validations—to hold themselves and their chosen vendors accountable. It is a worthy cause.

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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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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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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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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She has served clients as an independent consulting partner since 2004. To apply a science-based approach to improving the customer experience, Martha Brooke founded Interaction Metrics in 2004.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She has served clients as an independent consulting partner since 2004. To apply a science-based approach to improving the customer experience, Martha Brooke founded Interaction Metrics in 2004.