Customer-centricity is integral to culture, a precursor to strategy and essential for sustained customer growth and retention. However, companies don’t get to decide how customer-centric they are. That’s decided by their customers.
For companies to understand, manage and profit from customer-centricity, they must implement an objective scoring system, create a performance baseline, and report results to know when customer strategies are working or course corrections are needed.
http://customerthink.com/how-to-measure-customer-centricity/
We have the technology to listen to customers, but we're still not getting customer experience right. According to the State of Customer Experience 2017 report from business process services company Conduent, brands fail to provide 80 percent of customers with first-step resolutions. Further, 75 percent don’t provide enough support to encourage successful self-help.
Some brands have turned to Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs to help inform the experiences they provide. Wikipedia defines VoC programs as marketing techniques designed to understand and facilitate the wants and needs of customers by organizing them into a prioritized hierarchal structure.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/10-common-voice-of-the-customer-mistakes/
Short but sweet infographic on how to build an effective VoC program from My Business Ideas.
http://mybusinessideas.bid/building-an-effective-voice-of-the-customer-program.html/
The opportunity for a distinctive business lies in offering optimal service and customer experience. Insight into customer feedback is necessary and KPI’s such as NPS, CES and CSAT make that possible. But how do you really implement the Voice of the Customer into your organization? We distinguish three levels in this article to give more insights into the deployment of VOC within your organization.
https://www.cys.group/en/blog/how-to-implement-the-voice-of-the-customer-into-your-organization/
To help marketers navigate the massive and expanding array of marketing technologies available to them, Chief Marketing Technologist Editor Scott Brinker recently released his annual Marketing Technology Landscape supergraphic, known as the ‘Martech 5000’.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/marketing-technology-landscape-2018/
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a critical component for many CX efforts. This infographic examines those efforts. Make sure to visit our VoC/NPS Resource Page for more help in building your VoC program.
https://experiencematters.blog/2018/05/07/building-strong-voice-customer-program-infographic/
It’s no longer good enough to simply provide customer service. To truly be relevant and competitive in the marketplace, companies need to adopt a customer obsessed outlook and culture.
Customer obsession takes more than just offering services and products that customers might like and buy. To truly be best-in-class, companies need to not only deliver a customer experience that leaves a lasting, loyalty-inducing impression but also be constantly communicating with their audience. It’s these two-way conversations that help build deep, lasting relationships with our customers.
https://www.somos.com/blog/customer-obsession-starts-listening-customers/
According to Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017, customer experience is the top area of innovation being pursued by marketing leaders. Empowered with larger budgets and spend directed toward innovation efforts, marketing leaders look to analytics for proof that customer experience investments pay off. VoC analytics is often used alongside customer journey analytics in order to evaluate the customer experience across touchpoints and over time.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/use-voice-of-customer-data-to-improve-customer-experience-analytics/
The travel industry, one of the world’s largest industries, has changed drastically over the last few years as a result of digitisation. Digitally confident customers now seek more control of the booking process, making the demands for good (online) service even higher than before. So what does this mean for travel marketers? You guessed it, the Voice of the Customer must become a top priority.
https://mopinion.com/travel-companies-voice-of-the-customer/
Now you know more about the importance of using KPI’s such as NPS (Net Promoter Score) when collecting the Voice of the Customer, we will explain two other much used customer centric KPI’s. These are CES (Customer Effort Score) and CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score). Which KPI measures what and what will it deliver? In this blog you will find out.
https://www.cys.group/en/blog/how-to-measure-the-voice-of-the-customer-ces-customer-effort-score-and-csat-customer-satisfaction-score/