Building structured understanding with unstructured data
A voice of the customer (VOC) programme allows you to determine which questions to ask your customers. This has been and remains an important principle in managing the VOC, because if you just said to your customers “tell me whatever you want to tell me” they will...
Going social on unstructured data
As we watched the market grow, we have always been aware of the need to analyse both structured and unstructured text. We see more and more how companies that do voice-of-the-customer listening, also have a need to listen to their social media domains.
Genex CX Expo
Most companies have the same VOC implementation issues We hosted our first Genex customer experience day recently. It was a fantastically well-subscribed event with people from various businesses and industries attending. Through the attendance and the interaction, we...
Beyond Dashboards
You have a voice-of-the-customer (VOC) programme. Your closed-loop service recovery is doing what it must. You have dashboards showing you every grain of trackable data. Why, then, are you not excelling? Why is your net promoter score (NPS) not shooting through the...
Net Promoter Score
Fundamental to any Customer Experience Management (CEM) program, is the measurement of that experience and the appropriate use of the correct metrics
Employee engagement is the new customer engagement
The recent Customer Experience World conference speakers noted an evolution in focus from customer engagement and satisfaction to employee engagement and satisfaction. One presenter even simplified it to the point of saying that the people in a business fulfil one of two functions: They’re either serving the customer, or they’re supporting someone who is serving the customer.
Hyper-personalisation – a new mega-trend?
For market research professionals, the advent of hyper-personalisation holds interesting implications. We can no longer advise our customers to do satisfaction surveys once a year or to segment their customer base into six or eight macro categories.
Voice of the Customer and the Gartner Hype Cycle – are we entering the “trough of disillusionment”?
In Gartners famous hype-cycle, new industries with technology triggers go through phases beginning with hype and ending in a plateau which is preceded by a Trough of Disillusionment.