Report: The State of CX Metrics, 2016
Experience Matters
DECEMBER 20, 2016
We published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Metrics, 2016. This is the sixth year of this study that examines the CX metrics efforts within large companies.
2016 lessons from my customer experience podcast
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 29, 2016
I launched a podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , in 2016. At the end of all 32, I asked the guest — typically a Chief Customer Officer or someone who owns customer experience at their organization — what I call my “pay it forward” question. That’s a mistake.
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Report: The State of CX Metrics, 2016
Experience Matters
DECEMBER 20, 2016
We published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Metrics, 2016. This is the sixth year of this study that examines the CX metrics efforts within large companies.
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Report: ROI of Customer Experience, 2016
Experience Matters
OCTOBER 24, 2016
We published a Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2016. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the connection between customer experience (CX) and loyalty, we examined feedback from 10,000 U.S. This research shows that CX is highly correlated to loyalty across 20 industries.
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11 Customer Experience Trends for 2016 (The Year of Emotion)
Experience Matters
DECEMBER 15, 2015
With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016.
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A Primer on the 3 Most Important CX Metrics – NPS, CSAT and CES
Wootric
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Welcome to the “Age of the Customer.” Increased competition in nearly every market is leading businesses of all types to search for ways to attract and retain their ideal customers. Through technology, customers have unprecedented access to information about products and services. Customer Satisfaction ( CSAT/PSAT ).
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INFOGRAPHIC: 2016 State of Knowledge for Customer Service
Tricia Morris
APRIL 1, 2016
Customers’ expectations for brands and organizations delivering the right answer at the right time, whether through assisted or self-service, continue to grow. In Microsoft’s Global State of Customer Service Report, 90% of consumers surveyed now expect a company website to include a self-service application. Get the 2016 Knowledge.
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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 21, 2016
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Surprises Await When You Pretend To Be Your Own Customer by Steve DiGioia. Steve DiGioia) Stop complaining about your customers. Well, have you ever tried to be your own customer? Salesforce Survey Shows Customer Experience Now Job No.
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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of December 12, 2016
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. They help businesses take essential decisions and optimize their strategy and workflows, but how do you know if an artificial intelligence platform can h elp you build a more engaging, personal connection with customers – and improve your metrics?
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6 Metrics to Measure Your Customer Service Knowledge
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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60 CX Lessons from 2016: 31 Customer Experience Pros Share Their Plans for 2017
Bold360
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
In 2016, the customer experience became the focal point of marketing, acquisition, onboarding, UX design, and many other core business functions. Meet Our Panel of Customer Experience Pros: Daisy Jing. We make it a priority to respond to our customers as quickly as possible. Sasha Tenodi. Wendy Glavin. Randy Hernandez.
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Report: Net Promoter Score Benchmark Study, 2016
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 […].
5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of June 27, 2016
ShepHyken
JUNE 27, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. ON DEMAND: Microsoft’s 2016 Global State of Customer Service Report Reveal by Bill Peterson. She shared the new report, The Microsoft Global State of Customer Service. Customer experience in the age of disloyalty by Blaise Lucey.
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The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016
Amity
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Editor’s note: This is a living document, and our goal is to update it regularly with the best resources around customer success. The Best Customer Success Resources of 2016. Surely, you are staying up to date on the latest customer success trends – did someone say “customer marketing”?
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Big CX Idea for 2016: Not Despite but Because
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 27, 2016
More often these days we get calls at our headquarters with Customer Experience champions wondering what happened to the huge gains in their Customer Experience metrics they used to get. The answer is simple: What’s next is the next level of Customer Experience improvement. See the difference there? Let me explain.
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Report: 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors
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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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)
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. Reporting Your customer care program may accumulate more data than any other part of your organization. Hourly staff?
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Report: Economics of Net Promoter Score, 2016
Experience Matters
JUNE 21, 2016
We just published a Temkin Group report, Economics of Net Promoter, 2016. Here’s the executive summary: Net Promoter® Score (NPS®) is a popular metric that companies use to analyze their customer experience efforts, but how does it actually relate to loyalty?
Top 10 Customer Experience Trends for 2016
CSM Magazine
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Temkin Group, a leading customer experience firm, has published its annual list of customer experience trends. As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1. Effort Metric Expanding.
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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 15, 2024
ShepHyken
JANUARY 14, 2024
Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.
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3 key takeaways from Forrester CXSF 2016 for CX professionals
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. Gain clarity on cost.
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98 Customer Experience Metrics: Understanding CSAT, CES, NPS, and 5-Star
AskNicely
JANUARY 10, 2019
In 2013, a research study by Walker predicted that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the main differentiator for brands. Three Reasons Customer Experience Must be Top-of-Mind. Even worse, 91% of unhappy customers who are non-complainers simply leave. Five Common Customer Experience Metrics.
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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of January 12, 2024
ShepHyken
JANUARY 14, 2024
Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.
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56 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of August 29, 2016
ShepHyken
AUGUST 29, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. 5 Smart Contact Center Strategies Designed to Improve the Customer Experience by Pam Bednarczyk. ShoreTel) Rising customer expectations and changing delivery preferences are forcing many companies to revisit their contact center processes.
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Why First Call Resolution is the Most Important Call Center Metric
Pointillist
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
By Stephanie Ventura Metrics tracking is a vital element of every call center. However, aiming to track all possible call center metrics can lead to information overload. Instead, organizations must focus on metrics that yield the greatest insight. For example, imagine that a CRM system notes only a customer’s home number.
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3 Activities for Quick Wins in Customer Experience (& 3 More to Avoid)
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
AUGUST 3, 2021
Customer experience leaders often have to celebrate quick wins and show other leaders fast, to earn that next round of support. But I get nervous when people ask me about customer experience shortcuts. Customer experience management can feel like a lot. Customer experience management can feel like a lot. It IS a lot.
To boost customer loyalty, telecom companies need to go beyond NPS
Alida
MARCH 23, 2017
According to Jen Palmer from T-Mobile , “If we don’t provide the service our customers want, expect and deserve, they can leave us.” Despite this, telecoms are notorious for having the lowest rated customer service departments and representatives of any industry. Looking beyond traditional customer experience (CX) metrics.
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Report: Tech Vendor NPS Benchmark, 2016 (B2B)
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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105 My Agent eXperience Selected as 2016 Customer Product of the Year
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
We are thrilled to announce that Customer Magazine has selected inContact My Agent eXperience™ (MAX) as a 2016 Customer Product of the Year. Each year Customer Magazine identifies outstanding achievements within the call center/CRM industry and awards the most innovative customer experience technology solutions.
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50 Report: 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors
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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97 7 Insights into Customer Service Metrics
Talkdesk
AUGUST 3, 2016
To be competitive in today’s oversaturated marketplace is to make a commitment to being customer-centric. The companies that invest in creating excellent customer experiences ultimately differentiate themselves from competitors and succeed in the long term. There are many aspects to effectively executing a customer experience strategy.
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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of July 25, 2016
ShepHyken
JULY 25, 2016
Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The omni-channel strategy for customer service part 1: email by Heerd. My Comment: Email is still a viable way to communicate with customers. My Comment: One way to improve the customer experience is to personalize it.
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78 Are Popular Customer Experience Metrics Just “Immature”, Or Do They Have Bigger Challenges?
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 14, 2016
Based on insights from the Temkin Group report’s State of CX Metrics, 2015, a recent LinkedIn infographic post by CXPA co-founder Bruce Temkin labeled customer experience metrics as “Immature, But Improving”. Lack of taking action based on CX metrics (57%). Poor communication of CX metrics (41%).
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60 Customer Experience Commitment – 2016 Customer Centricity Research Findings
ijgolding
JUNE 14, 2016
When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. So this year, I wanted to explore another aspect of Customer Experience that I find extremely interesting. So what did people see as either enabling customer centric behaviour… or frustrating it?
Looking Beyond Metrics for Customer Satisfaction
Talkdesk
AUGUST 25, 2016
Historically, the world of call center customer service has been all about the numbers. When customer satisfaction dips, many in the industry pile on increasing layers of call center metrics to locate the problem. So the question becomes: Can traditional call center metrics zero in on how to meet customer expectations?
Announcing the Winners of Talkdesk’s 2016 Customer Awards
Talkdesk
MAY 31, 2016
Our inaugural summit, Opentalk 2016, explored the of the future of customer experience. We went above and beyond to make this event interesting and valuable to all of the customer-centric business leaders in attendance. We are thrilled to announce the winners of Talkdesk’s 2016 Customer Awards.
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How to produce a business case for a Voice of the Customer Programme
customer sure
MARCH 18, 2024
Getting Voice of the Customer right isn’t a ‘nice to have’, it’s a competitive advantage. A VoC programme which not only prioritises insights for service improvement, but – critically — enables real-time service recovery will: Enhance customer satisfaction , leading to greater spend, cross-sell, and upsell.
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Be Wary of “The Year of the Customer”
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JANUARY 7, 2020
I am seeing a few enthusiastic sorts claiming 2020 will be “The Year of Experience,” “When Experience Finally Wins” or “The Year of the Customer.” For one, a quick Google search will bring you articles that claim 2019 was “The Year of the Customer.”
Emerging Trends In Customer Experience: The Continuing Story
Storyminers
JUNE 3, 2022
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.
Four ways customer education helps support the Customer Success team
ChurnZero
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. . It doesn’t have to be this way.
First 90 Days of a Chief Customer Success Officer, with Duygu Cibik – CB22
Customer Bliss
OCTOBER 4, 2016
So when she took on the role of the Chief Customer Success officer at Reval, she knew she needed to create a very deliberate path to gaining understanding, acceptance and traction in her role. Duygu has only been in her role at Reval recently; she began in 2016 (i.e. You want to make sure that you: Speak to/listen for customers.
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The Top Trends in Customer Service for 2016
Comm100
JANUARY 14, 2016
Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.
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4 reasons why customer experience programs fail (and how to avoid them)
Alida
MARCH 10, 2017
Failing customer experience initiatives are keeping business leaders up at night. According to an Accenture-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, only seven percent of business leaders think that their company’s shopping experience exceeds customer expectations. Failure to listen to customers.
Choosing Between CSAT, NPS or CES: Why it Does Not Matter
COPC
MAY 19, 2023
Organizations often dedicate substantial time and effort debating whether to use Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) , Net Promoter Score (NPS) or Customer Effort Score (CES). However, this ongoing argument about the “right” metric is misguided. The key opportunity to compete is in the experiences provided to customers.
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