Customer Service - Brad Cleveland

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink

Oct 29, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Service, Leadership, Multi-channel Support, Organization and Culture, The Edge of Service

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 14: Hiring for Service: It’s Time for a Rethink Imagine dropping onto Earth from another planet. Your task is to explore our economy—jobs, what we produce, and how we hire and train people for those roles. You’re not...

Building a Customer Service Ecosystem

Oct 20, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Service, Leadership, Multi-channel Support, Videos

Customer experience is not a program, a department, a contact center, self-service capability, or CRM system—it’s much more. It’s an ecosystem, comprised of many components that must seamlessly work together. It’s the result of a culture and approach that spans the...

Align the Organization to Deliver the Best Possible Customer Experience

Oct 14, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, Leadership, Organization and Culture, Videos

Helping Customers Serve Themselves

Oct 8, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Self-service

Are we doing enough to enable customer self-service? Here are some statistics to consider: 72% of customers go online to serve themselves, but only 52% find the information they are searching for. (Source: Zendesk, 2013) Only 26% of companies offer self-service...

Celebrating 30 Years of Contact Centers

Oct 6, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Videos

Here’s a short (four-minute) video Brad and the ICMI team developed that shows how service has evolved over the past three decades.

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 13: Statistics Behind a Service Revolution

Oct 1, 2015 | Call Center, Contact Center, Customer Access Strategy, Customer Experience, Customer Relationships, Customer Service, The Edge of Service

The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 13: Statistics Behind a Service Revolution Watermark Consulting hit something of a research jackpot with a simple correlation between stock price and customer service rankings. In the seven years leading up to 2015, they found...