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What the latest Service Excellence standard BS ISO 23592 tells you

What the latest Service Excellence standard BS ISO 23592 tells you

by Jo Davies | 29 Nov, 2021 | Our blog, Customer experience

Service excellence aims to create exceptional value for organisations’ stakeholders and provide customers with outstanding levels of customer service. Service excellence can be achieved by going beyond satisfying customers’ expectations. It is reached by offering...
Shopping apps in 2021: Is customer support improving?

Shopping apps in 2021: Is customer support improving?

by Marcus Hickman | 2 Nov, 2021 | Our blog, Customer experience

A year on from our initial research into shopping apps and their usability, Davies Hickman has revisited the 30 apps in our 2020 study to reveal whether any improvements have been implemented to make the customer experience more enjoyable and the process easier to...
What’s your view on taking loyalty penalties public?

What’s your view on taking loyalty penalties public?

by Jo Davies | 9 Dec, 2019 | Customer experience, Our blog

It’s no secret that customers don’t trust organisations the way they used to. In customer research, we often see over-simplified questions about trust, yet questions about loyalty, particularly loyalty penalties, feature less often. Is this because businesses are too...
Do consumers prefer text-activated or voice-activated chatbots?

Do consumers prefer text-activated or voice-activated chatbots?

by Marcus Hickman | 1 Jul, 2019 | Our blog, Customer experience

When we talk about ‘chatbots’, we often conflate two different things: text-activated and voice-activated bots. It sounds trite to point out that they are, in fact, very different! Indeed, it’s rare to find a bot that can be activated by text and voice. So, given the...
What the latest Contact Centre Standard BS EN ISO 18295 tells you

What the latest Contact Centre Standard BS EN ISO 18295 tells you

by Jo Davies | 23 May, 2019 | Customer experience, Our blog

Customer contact centres (CCCs) have an important role in the interaction between organizations and their customers. They vary in their levels of service quality and consumer protection, and work to many different levels of efficiency. BS EN ISO 18295-1 Customer...
Why is customer service more popular than ever?

Why is customer service more popular than ever?

by Marcus Hickman | 18 Mar, 2019 | Customer experience, Our blog

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,...
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