Experience Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We just published a Temkin Group report, State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2014. Here’s the executive summary: For the fourth straight year, Temkin Group has benchmarked the maturity of voice of the customer (VoC) programs within large organizations. The bottom line: VoC programs have a lot of maturing to do.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 20, 2015

The report provides insights from 8 finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2014 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. Here’s the executive summary: This year, we chose eight organizations as finalists for Temkin Group’s 2014 Customer Experience Excellence Award.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 17, 2015

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. 81% of respondents expect to put more focus on customer insights and analytics.

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MARCH 3, 2015

consumers to rate their recent interactions with 293 companies across 20 industries and then evaluated their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. Between 2014 and 2015, only five industries improved and 14 declined. To generate the Temkin Experience Ratings, we asked 10,000 U.S.

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Experience Matters

MAY 12, 2015

Companies have also achieved the best scores we’ve seen for two of our four core competencies, Employee Engagement and Customer Connectedness. Executives in companies with stronger CX competencies also tend to focus more on building a customer-centric culture and less on cutting costs.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

In my post last year, I named 2014 “ The Year of Empathy.” We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of companies looking to build more customer-centric cultures and train their people on CX. Voice of the employee efforts are becoming an integral component of modern voice of the customer programs.

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

Respondents think that the most important source of insights in the future will be customer interaction history, and they think that going forward, multiple-choice questions will be the least important. See the State of VoC reports from 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , and 2014. Download report for $195.

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