Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2015

Comcast recently announced that it will add more than 5,500 customer service jobs as part of a “customer experience transformation” effort. That’s not the answer to its customer experience woes. Comcast provides terrible customer experience. So, whats the answer?

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Experience Matters

MARCH 17, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2015. 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. 81% of respondents expect to put more focus on customer insights and analytics.

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2015 Customer Connectedness Customer Experience 2014 102

Experience Matters

APRIL 1, 2016

Here are some of insights from the report, State of CX Metrics, 2015. You can download (and print) this infographic in different forms: Infographic: infographic in pdf, infographic in png Poster (18″ x 24″): poster in pdf, poster in png Filed under: Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, CX measurement, Infographic.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We published a Temkin Group report, Capturing Insights from Online Customer Communities. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a range of industries use online customer communities to augment their customer support, marketing, and product innovation efforts.

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Insights Innovation Customers Marketing 68

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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2015 Customer Connectedness Net Promoter Score 2014 108

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We published a Temkin Group report, Capturing Insights from Online Customer Communities. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a range of industries use online customer communities to augment their customer support, marketing, and product innovation efforts.

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Insights Innovation Customers Marketing 61

Experience Matters

JULY 7, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Unlocking Customer Insights From Contact Centers: From Agent Productivity to Enterprise Intelligence. However, companies are now beginning to realize that contact centers actually contain a wealth of deep, untapped information about customers. Download report for $195.

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The vendor market for Voice of the Customer (VoC) products and services has been heating up, with numerous acquisitions and mergers. The post The Future of VoC: Insight & Action, Not Feedback appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. It appears that we on the verge of the next stage in evolution for VoC.

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Experience Matters

AUGUST 28, 2014

Analysts who work with customer data are often frustrated by the slow uptake in its usage. They see a ton of valuable insights in their work that go to waste. They’re frustrated that business partners aren’t lining up for as much of this insight as they can possibly consume. What’s going on? Stage 7: Embrace.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This report offers insights into their efforts, describing how Safelite drives value with a small team, how Firstsource ventures beyond service quality and training, how American Express built a custom solution in-house, how ADP scaled with a distributed model, and how Verizon scaled with a centralized model.

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Customer Connectedness Download Insights Customer Experience 98

Experience Matters

MAY 15, 2017

We just published a Temkin Group report, The Shift To Customer Journey Insights. Here’s the executive summary: Customer insights are critical to customer experience programs.

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Experience Matters

MAY 15, 2017

We just published a Temkin Group report, The Shift To Customer Journey Insights. Here’s the executive summary: Customer insights are critical to customer experience programs.

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Experience Matters

MAY 12, 2015

Here’s the executive summary: For the sixth straight year, Temkin Group surveyed nearly 200 large companies to evaluate the state of their Customer Experience (CX) management. Companies have also achieved the best scores we’ve seen for two of our four core competencies, Employee Engagement and Customer Connectedness.

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2015 Customer Connectedness Management 2014 106

Experience Matters

APRIL 3, 2015

I often say that the customer experience your organization delivers is a reflection of your culture and operating processes. In other words, what customers experience outside is based on what’s going on inside. To consistently differentiate your customer experience, you need to transform your culture.

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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. Download report for $195.

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2014 Customer Connectedness Net Promoter Score Effort Score 100

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. Customer Journey Designing. Customer journey mapping has become one of the most popular CX tools as it helps provide a customer-oriented viewpoint. See the 2015 Temkin Effort Ratings.

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2016 Customer Experience Customer Connectedness 2015 91

Clicktools

MAY 19, 2017

There’s renewed talk around the very old subject (relatively speaking in Tech years) of CRM being the key solution to support a unified customer experience. These days, delivering a superior customer experience means knowing your customers better than ever before.

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Clicktools

MAY 18, 2017

If you haven’t read the report (or at least the executive summary), I strongly recommend that you do, but even if not, you’ll still see some value in understanding how technology plays a critical role in running a customer-centric company. Compelling Brand Values : Deliver on your brand promises to customers.

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Technology Customer Connectedness Brand Values Leadership 51

CSM Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Ross Daniels at Calabrio outlines the obstacles and how to tackle them using 3 winning strategies for connecting staff and customers. In our last two articles, we established what it means to be a Connected Enterprise and the benefits such connectedness brings. We then discovered how everyone gains, from employees to customers.

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Connections Customer Connectedness Call Recording Article 52

Experience Matters

AUGUST 15, 2016

Companies that have voice of the customer (VoC) programs (including NPS) often put in place a closed-loop process. Those efforts often focus on closing a single loop, immediately responding to a customer after they respond to a survey. But this represents only one of four loops that companies need to close.

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Experience Matters

MAY 17, 2018

Before I describe Assistance Engines, I want to go back to 2010 when I labelled VoC technologies as Customer Insight & Action (CIA) Platforms. The naming was important, because it correctly identified that vendors needed to focus more on “insight & action” than on customer feedback.

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Eptica

APRIL 25, 2018

They know that they must keep innovating and improving if they are to differentiate their customer experience and therefore thrive. Compelling Brand Values: Deliver on your brand promises to customers. Customer Connectedness: Infuse customer insight across the organization.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

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. Voice of the Customer Renovations. CX Training & Engagement.

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2015 Customer Journey Mapping Contact Center 2014 132

Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The connected world we live in has opened up opportunities for companies to interact with their customers more often and across more channels than ever before. The key to doing this is to move ownership of insight resources out of marketing and into the entire organization. Insights at the heart of customer-centricity.

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Customer Centricity Customer Connectedness Innovation Books 20

Experience Matters

OCTOBER 27, 2015

We published a Temkin Group report, State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2015 : This is the fifth year that we’ve benchmarked the competency & maturity of voice of the customer programs within large organization.

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Qualtrics

JANUARY 22, 2021

I learn by trying to understand why things happen, why people behave the way they do – whether they’re customers, employees, or executives – which helps me understand why organizations act the way they do. In fact, these skills and insights made Bruce the most-read analyst for his last 13 quarters at Forrester.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Maximizing Value From Customer Journey Mapping. Here’s the executive summary: Customer Journey Maps (CJMs) are a valuable tool for understanding how customers truly interact across an entire organization, but companies aren’t capturing enough value from their CJM efforts.

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Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Download Customer Centricity 96

Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The more we can understand those factors, the better we can extrapolate the insights about a single personal experience to form a deeper understanding about other people’s experiences. Now to my discussion of Xs and Os, starting with customer experience (CX)… Let’s say that your company has this data: Read More.

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Insights Customer Experience Customer Connectedness Customers 105

Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2017. Here’s the […].

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 8, 2018

The report provides insights from six winners in the Temkin Group’s 2017 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The post Report: Lessons in CX Excellence, 2018 appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management. Listen to your customers.

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Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 178

Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that mobile customer experience is on the rise, but this infographic provides some more insights on what that shift looks like.

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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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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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2016 Download Customers Customer Experience 114

Experience Matters

JUNE 13, 2018

Few organizations deliver outstanding experiences to their customers. To better understand which types of interactions are most likely to affect the customer’s perception of an organization, we asked customers to identify the most problematic journeys across 19 different industries.

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Customer Journey 2018 Consumers Loyalty 63

Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2017. Here’s the […].

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 19, 2016

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2015 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2016. Here’s the executive […].

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