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Will Contact Center Fundamentals Change?
The technologies powering today’s always-on world, along with fast-evolving customer expectations, are dramatically changing the nature of how products and services are provided and supported. Many leaders are wondering where the trends and developments are taking us....
Stories from the Field: Improving the Service Process
Focusing on improvements at the process level is so powerful. I once did some work for a company that provides software packages for businesses, and I spent some time in their customer support area, the team that provides technical support to customers. A lot of...
Celebrate – often!
Would you go to a game and wait until your team won to cheer? Building an organization (or division, function, or team) that consistently delivers great customer experiences takes focus, work and unwavering commitment. Celebrating progress along the way is essential...
10 Components of a Customer Access Strategy
Whether you're a one person building contractor, a technology start-up, a government agency, or a global airline, you need a customer access strategy that defines how your organization will interact with customers. An effective customer...
Customer Advocacy: The Secret Sauce
There’s a scene in the movie Jobs, the biographical drama of Steve Jobs’ life, where he is shown fiddling with a portable CD player. It’s clumsy, heavy, and he struggles to get the CD loaded. The next scene shows him throwing the device into the trash. Of course, the...
5 Secrets to Quality Service
I've seen organizations achieve every level of success. Some top their industry in customer loyalty, and they enjoy the strong business results that come with it. Others struggle as they face disruption or competition or lose internal focus on customers. Generally...
Who are your innovators?
I once had a chance to meet and talk with the late W. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming was one of the world’s preeminent quality gurus, and author of the bellwether book, Out of the Crisis. This was years ago, and I was young and eager to learn. He lamented the fear...
Great customer experiences happen by design
Customer-centric organizations spend proportionally more time designing processes and proportionally less time getting better at appeasing unhappy customers. They devote their attention to eliminating what makes customers unhappy in the first place. Of course,...
Essential Metrics for the Service Operation
There are many variables in customer service and different perspectives of what's important. What should you focus on? We've found there are seven key aspects of service that should always be reflected in metrics. They build on each other and form a powerful...
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