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Customer experience measurement

We believe that effective customer experience research must to go far beyond a satisfaction or advocacy score or a performance index.  In developing our research methodologies we have ensured that research produces clearly actionable findings that identify specific areas of customer dissatisfaction, prioritised  in terms of their financial impact to the organisation.

More than just an approach to satisfaction measurement - it helps manage loyalty and advocacy upwards

 

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Our customer experience research solutions help organisations establish a baseline of customer satisfaction and loyalty, identify sources of customer dissatisfaction, prioritise remedial actions, track ongoing service quality and actively manage customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy upwards.

Customer experience baseline research:

CTMA’s customer experience baseline study is designed to establish an external measure of customer satisfaction and loyalty and to identify specific areas of poor performance and sources of customer dissatisfaction.  It also identifies key aspects of customer complaint and word-of-mouth behaviour and provides a measure of the organisation’s effectiveness in responding to customers.  The study reports on four key areas of customer experience that impact on loyalty and advocacy:

  • Overall customer satisfaction and the impact current levels of service have on strategic outcomes for the organisations such as customer loyalty, advocacy and support

  • Problems experienced by customers, identifying specific areas of poor performance and sources of customer dissatisfaction

  • Customer behaviour (when things go wrong), identifying key aspects of customer complaint and word-of-mouth behaviour amongst the organisation’s customers

  • Response effectiveness, providing a measure of the organisation’s effectiveness responding to its customers when they make contact about problems and concerns

 
The study sets out to identify a set of clearly actionable customer-driven product and service quality improvement opportunities that often include a combination of strategic and tactical issues.

By estimating the financial impact of current level of satisfaction the study identifies these opportunities for improvement based on the profitability of good service and the cost of poor service.  Potential remedial actions and improvement initiatives can then be assessed in terms of their potential return on service level investment.

Ongoing satisfaction tracking:

CTMA's ongoing customer satisfaction-tracking programmes function as an operational management tool.  They monitor and support the management and service quality improvement of specific customer processes and customer interactions such as those in call centres, financial services, local government, retail networks, passenger travel, hospitality etc.

Monitoring satisfaction with service, transactions, relationships and brands, the programmes focus on management outcomes to track and manage performance against key drivers of customer satisfaction and loyalty to reduce the number of problems experienced by customers and to increase re-purchase, brand loyalty and advocacy. The programmes help managers:

  • Review overall performance
    in terms of customer satisfaction and loyalty and manage department level issues

  • Identify high and low performing individuals
    (CSR, location, branch, route etc.), track performance trends and consider possible external influencing factors

  • Identify performance strengths and weaknesses for each individual
    (CSR, location, branch, route etc.) and use the results to manage improvement

  • Develop customer-driven service levels and response standards
    to maximise return on service investment.

 
CTMA's tracking programmes are specifically designed to provide management with regular feedback on service performance.  They are immediately actionable, allowing the manager to review the results quickly as part of their routine performance management process and plan remedial actions with minimum effort.



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