Why is customer service more popular than ever?

Why is customer service more popular than ever?

The promise of digital transformation was automation, simplification and reduced demand failure. Implicitly, and often explicitly, there has been a related prize for organisations providing products and services – that of less need for expensive, people resourced,...

Why are we witnessing the ‘averagisation’ of customer service?

Why are we witnessing the ‘averagisation’ of customer service?

Originally published in MyCustomer Consumer perceptions of customer service offered by most businesses across most sectors are broadly similar and middling – in other words, undifferentiated. Why is this? And what does it mean for your company? Big businesses have...

Strategies for researching CX opportunities in 2019

Strategies for researching CX opportunities in 2019

We live in exceptionally unstable times. To succeed, businesses need to invest in understanding and meeting their current customers’ future needs as well as finding cost-effective ways to attract new customers. As consumers, we pay for organisations’ products and services – our spending is their sales and revenue …

How can housing associations best use Smart home technology?

How can housing associations best use Smart home technology?

Smart home technology is a whole range of products that are changing the way we interact with our home and enable us to control factors like heating and lighting to even the functioning of doors. Coupled with the Internet of Things it includes sensors to monitor...

Customers’ complaints – when there’s an IT fiasco

Customers’ complaints – when there’s an IT fiasco

There have been days of disruption to TSB’s services after a planned migration to a new IT system went wrong. The new system was unable to handle the volume of users, and many customers were unable to check their accounts or monitor payments. The incident follows...

The central role of market research in proposition development

The central role of market research in proposition development

Market research is crucial for the success of developing new propositions. Findings from market research can drive proposition development at several stages of the process. At the earliest stage, research findings can be used to design the product or service...

Why market research is essential for understanding customers

Why market research is essential for understanding customers

The airline steward requested all phones should be switched off. It was this routine request, heard many times before, that alerted my travelling colleague to a problem. Suddenly, he had the unpleasant realisation he’d left his iPhone X in a duty-free shop back in the...

Is it time for outsourcers to reveal their statistics?

Is it time for outsourcers to reveal their statistics?

Most industry sectors have digital disruption at the top of their agendas. Whilst the outsourcing industry has much to offer in terms of Digital services it currently has other priorities. “In the wake of the collapse of the contractor Carillion, it is time to put an...

Personal finance dashboards: What could be better?

Personal finance dashboards: What could be better?

How should financial providers design online sites and Apps to best inform and educate their customers about their personal finances? The growing use of personal finance dashboards to visualise data and the launch of Open Banking in 2018 could be the catalysts to...

Facebook: a new start for business to consumer messaging?

Facebook: a new start for business to consumer messaging?

Facebook: a new start for business to consumer messaging? By Tom Castle It is over a year since Mark Zuckerberg was quoted in the media about the usage of Facebook Messenger "We think you should message a business just the way you would message a friend". With over...

Has the bot got natural chat?

Has the bot got natural chat?

By Tom Castle. The chatbot industry is growing. Chatbots are computer programmes that hold conversations with humans via either voice or text using artificial intelligence. The number of these ‘bots’ is growing at an increasing rate with bigger companies such as Apple...