Data Snapshot: Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2015

March 17, 2015 Leave a comment

1503_DS_CXPlansFor2015_COVERWe just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2015. This is our annual analysis of CX priorities and spending within large organizations (see last year’s data snapshot).

Here’s the data snapshot description:

In the first quarter of 2015, Temkin Group surveyed 207 respondents, each from a company with $500 million or more in annual revenues, about their customer experience efforts over the past year and their plans for 2015 and beyond. We compared the results of this survey to the results of similar surveys that we completed in Q4 of 2010, Q4 of 2011, Q4 of 2012, and Q4 of 2013. This year’s results show that companies are planning on dedicating more money and effort to improving a variety of customer experience activities in 2015.

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Here are some highlights from the data snapshot that contains 13 data-rich charts:

  • 42% of respondents think their CX efforts had a moderately or significantly positive impact on the business in 2014 and 78% expect to have a positive impact in 2015.
  • 82% of respondents think that CX will be more important to their organization this year than it was last year.
  • 66% of respondents expect that their company will spend more on CX this year than it did last year.
  • 40% of respondents have more than five people in their centralized CX team and 42% expect those numbers to rise (none are expecting a decline).
  • 31% of respondents expect to spend more on voice of the customer software vendors in 2015 than they did in 2014 and only 2% expect to spend less.
  • 88% of respondents expect to put more focus on Web experiences in 2015, a jump from 79% that expected to do the same last year. Social media and phone self-service interactions were the only areas that did not gain momentum.
  • 81% of respondents expect to put more focus on customer insights and analytics. The largest jump from last year is employee communications and engagement.
  • Building a customer-centric culture and predictive analytics are the areas that jumped the most this year when respondents identified the things that would have a significant impact on their organization’s CX in three years.

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The bottom line: Companies will be spending more time and money on CX this year

Filed under Bruce Temkin Research, Business impact, CCXP2 Voice of the Customer, Customer Insight, and Understanding, Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, Temkin Group Research, Trends, Voice of the customer

About Bruce Temkin, CCXP
I'm an experience (XM) management catalyst; helping organizations improve results by engaging the hearts and minds of their employees, customers, and partners. I enjoy researching and speaking about these topics. I lead the Qualtrics XM Institute, which is the world's best job. We're igniting a global community of XM Professionals who are inspired and empowered to radically improve the human experience. To achieve this goal, my team focuses on thought leadership, training, and community building. My work is driven by a set of fundamental beliefs: 1) Everything starts and ends with human beings, so you need to understand how people think, feel, and behave; 2) XM is a discipline that needs to be woven throughout an organization's entire operating fabric; and 3) Building the XM discipline requires a combination of culture, competency, and technology.

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