Alida

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In our e-book The 10 Smartest Brands: How They Use the Competitive Advantage of Customer Intelligence , we reveal how companies like D E WALT, LinkedIn and Salomon engage with customers to make better marketing, customer experience and product innovation decisions. Boosting customer satisfaction with Alliant Energy.

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2016

We published a Temkin Group report, State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2016. This is the sixth year that we’ve benchmarked the competency & maturity of voice of the customer programs within large organization.

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Report Groups Customers Customer Connectedness 120

BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

In our world, it’s a little bit soul crushing to know that one third of people in the US would choose to clean a toilet over talking with customer service. If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? The Facts About Social Customer Care.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Detail roles and responsibilities, policies, and measurements. Provide examples of standard and custom reporting.

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Metrics, 2016. Here’s the executive summary: Temkin Group surveyed 183 companies to learn about how they use customer experience (CX) metrics and then compared their answers with similar studies we’ve […].

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We published a Temkin Group report, Net Promoter Score Benchmark Study, 2016. Here’s the executive summary: As many large companies use Net Promoter® Score (NPS) to evaluate their customer loyalty, Temkin Group […].

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We just published a Temkin Group report 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors that rates the customer experience of 62 large tech vendors based on a survey of 800 IT decision makers from large North American firms. This is the fifth year of the ratings, here are links to the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 ratings.

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Help.com

MARCH 14, 2016

A recent study by Gallup shows that only 29% of customers are fully engaged. 71% of customers are ready and willing to part ways with your company. We share a few tips below that can help boost your customer engagement and create a culture of loyal, happy customers. Make your business more customer-centric.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Tips Social Media 114

Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We just published a Temkin Group report, Tech Vendor NPS Benchmark, 2016, The research examines Net Promoter Scores and the link to loyalty for 62 tech vendors based on feedback from 800 IT decision makers in large North American organizations. We also compared overall results to our benchmarks from the previous four years.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Report B2B 120

Calabrio

JUNE 9, 2016

At Calabrio, we like to stay ahead of the curve so we can meet our customers where they want to be tomorrow, instead of where they were yesterday. One of the places I look for trends is in the 2016 Dimension Data Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report , the most extensive global contact center survey in the industry.

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Contact Center Report Banking eBook 100

InMoment XI

MAY 4, 2022

We all know that employee loyalty is important , but oftentimes we forget how employee loyalty is connected with customer loyalty and how loyal employees contribute to the success of the entire business. Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction.

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Loyalty Call Center Leadership Call Center Solutions 580

SuiteCX

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2016 rapidly draws to a close, Customer Experience continues to be a “hot topic” on everyone’s agenda, but companies are having trouble making progress. The primary disconnects are how Customer Experience professionals present and communicate Customer Experience to the C Suite. Customer Insight.

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Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Insights Survey 100

SuiteCX

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2016 rapidly draws to a close, Customer Experience continues to be a “hot topic” on everyone’s agenda, but companies are having trouble making progress. The primary disconnects are how Customer Experience professionals present and communicate Customer Experience to the C Suite. Customer Insight.

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Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Insights Survey 100

Lumoa

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The business and growth of Lumoa are driven by the megatrends of data driven decision making, customer focus and digitalization. Following the change, Lumoa will continue to aim high, empower even more its customers to drive business and continue building industry leading AI service.

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Ecommerce Banking Retail Industry 208

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a central part of most customer experience efforts. Here’s some interesting data snippets from the recent report, State of VoC Programs, 2016. For additional info, check out our VoC resource page.

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Infographics Resources Report Customers 286

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a central part of most customer experience efforts. Here’s some interesting data snippets from the recent report, State of VoC Programs, 2016.

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Infographics Report Customers Customer Experience 286

Alida

JULY 11, 2017

Customer experience is middling at best, and that’s troubling for brands. Forrester’s 2017 Global Customer Experience Trends report found the vast majority of firms in digital and traditional retail, banking and insurance around the world only earned the research firm’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index) score in the “OK” range.

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Customer Experience Effort Score Omni-Channel Retail 183

Storyminers

JANUARY 12, 2017

Kampyle, now part of Medallia, published this interview as a kick-off to their Emerging Trends in Customer Experience series in 2016. Steve Haeckel (the guy who taught me systems thinking applied to enterprise design) introduced me to Lou Carbone (the guy who helped me fall in love with customer experience). 2016 Answer.

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Trends Customer Experience Wireless Entertainment 171

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? Only recently I wrote about an experience a friend of mine was (and still is) having with BT – it was the perfect example of the RANDOM or UNINTENTIONAL Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

ijgolding

JANUARY 17, 2017

In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. In November 2016 I did so with tip number 1 – how to make Customer Experience a priority for the whole company – you can read it here.

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Customer Experience How To Customer Centricity Tips 168

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

We have had a significant increase in the number of organizations contacting us for help with their Customer Experience program. In many cases the initial focus on Customer Experience and new customer measures, like Net Promoter, delivered some improvements but they have been short-lived. We Need New Thinking.

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Insurance Exercises Analytics 60

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

We have had a significant increase in the number of organizations contacting us for help with their Customer Experience program. In many cases the initial focus on Customer Experience and new customer measures, like Net Promoter, delivered some improvements but they have been short-lived. We Need New Thinking.

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Insurance Exercises Analytics 60

Storyminers

AUGUST 28, 2020

However, getting a product to function as expected is a different outcome than getting that product to deliver value for customers. Since customers choose products and services not only on their functionality but on many factors, it makes sense to alter the MVP process to include them. Customer service. Onboarding.

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Measurement Study Software Training 240

Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Is a lack of consistency letting your customer service down?

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Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As I continue to develop my Customer Experience Specialism around the globe, a number of questions are continually raised by the people I meet. These questions include the following examples: Should I measure NPS or CSat? How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. I could go on.

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

COPC

AUGUST 18, 2016

New Questions, New Trends in the Customer Experience. The Consumer Edition of the Customer Experience Management Benchmark (CXMB) Series brings a host of new content in 2016. This year’s Consumer Edition report features two new sections: The Millennial Consumer and The Alternative Channel Customer Journey.

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Consumers Social Media Survey Customer Journeys 40

Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For the previous five years, we’ve measured emotion as part of the Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR). The TxR examines the three elements of customer experience: success, effort, and emotion. This year, we examined 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers (see methodology section below).

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COPC

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

and Execs in the Know have published survey results of the 2016 Customer Experience Management Benchmark (CXMB) Series Consumer Edition, which focuses on customer journey insights from the consumer’s perspective. While the preference for Traditional Care remains strong, there was a slight pullback in 2016.

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Customer Care Consumers Multi-Channel Social Media 40

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

On 14 November 2016, exactly one year ago, Lumoame Oy was registered in Helsinki. No surprise, the main discussion topic at #LumoaAnniversary was Customer Experience. We celebrated our first year with our supporters, friends, and customers. Customers have been at the center of all our operations since the very beginning.

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Competitive Advantage Conference Feedback Analysis 303

ijgolding

MAY 6, 2020

This is a post about customer experience (CX) transformation – about the incredible work being done by a bank in Eastern Europe in their quest to become sustainably customer centric. I first met Laura Tengerdi and Andrea (Andi) Hanyecz in 2016. customer insight. measurement. customer journey management.

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Banking Customer Experience Customer Centricity Strategy 233

CX Journey

AUGUST 16, 2017

It's been a year or more since I've written about the ROI of customer experience. Always good to revisit this topic because it is such a hot one for customer experience professionals. As you can see from the graphic above, there is definitely a correlation between the two, superior customer experience and superior revenue growth.

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Customer Experience ROI Comparison Airlines 142

Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Customer service knowledge comes in many forms from customer self-service knowledge to agent-facing knowledge, and many formats from video, to knowledge base articles and more. A recent Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) survey of more than 2,000 global consumers confirms that customers want fast and correct information above all else.

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Metrics Measurement Self Service Customer Service 40

OpinionLab

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As I spoke with customers and analysts, and listened to the keynote presentations, I found emerging commonality across three main themes: 1) Mobile is a mainstay. One Forrester analyst coined the term “landmarks” to describe the critical moments that matter in the customer journey. But the opposite is also true.

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Innovation Return on Investment Airlines Study 60

OpinionLab

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As I spoke with customers and analysts, and listened to the keynote presentations, I found emerging commonality across three main themes: 1) Mobile is a mainstay. One Forrester analyst coined the term “landmarks” to describe the critical moments that matter in the customer journey. But the opposite is also true.

Innovation 60

Innovation Return on Investment Airlines Study 60

Tricia Morris

MARCH 4, 2016

At Microsoft, and most absolutely with our customer service technology, we take these words to heart as we continue our consistent growth and progress among a steady stream of early 2016 award wins which now includes the 2016 CRM Magazine Service Leader Awards. ———-.

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CRM Innovation Technology Customer Service 40

Forrester

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The 2016 China Customer Experience Index report, which I co-authored with APAC CX team principal analyst Ryan Hart , went live last Thursday at the Forrester's CX MARKETING SHANGHAI 2016 forum. Several Brands Moved From OK To Good - China CX Index, 2016 score distribution.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Loyalty Report Measurement 40

CX University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2016, they lost 340 patent examiners, allowing them to boast a 96% retention rate. The program focuses on actions taken to address challenges above measurable results. For a deeper discussion of listening, see Top Rated in Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction: How does Quicken Loans do it? ). Gartner: Stamford, CT.

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Management Employee Engagement Government Engagement 209