For service level to have meaning, you must view it over an appropriate time frame. Daily service level reports often conceal important information. Service level...
Read More >>>Category Archives: Customer Access Strategy
Controlling Contact Center Costs—the Right Way
With the current economic challenges, many organizations are likely to look for ways to control costs as they serve customers. Done right, these efforts can...
Read More >>>Developing Your Service Strategy
Whether you’re a one person design company, a 50 person software startup or a global airline with thousands of employees, you need a strategy for serving your customers. Strategy...
Read More >>>Build the right skills, knowledge, and leaders
When developing an effective customer service strategy, you will need to include how to build the right skills, knowledge, and leaders. I’ve found in many...
Read More >>>Drive Innovation with Convenience Design
One of the themes driving innovation in customer experience is effort reduction—making things as simple and easy for customers as possible. One element of reducing...
Read More >>>The importance of effective service strategy
Customer service should work so well that it enables you to focus on what really matters: delivering on your organization’s mission and promises, and engaging...
Read More >>>The Pros and Cons of Virtual Queues
Many contact centers are grappling with labor shortages, surging workloads, or a brutal combination of both. The resource mismatches have resulted in long wait times...
Read More >>>Customer Service Excellence
Recently, I gave a presentation at the Tugboat Institute Gathering of Teams. The talk focused on common missed opportunities in customer service as well as...
Read More >>>5 Universal Customer Frustrations
Apple, the trillion-dollar tech giant, is also a giant in customer service. When my iPhone battery life began to diminish, I found myself on Apple’s...
Read More >>>10 Components of a Customer Access Strategy
It could be that you have just a few people in a small department or company, handling interactions with customers. On the other hand, you...
Read More >>>Harness innovation to deepen customer relationships
When developing a customer service strategy, the final step is to innovate and align. Where are the opportunities to get even better? How do you...
Read More >>>Eliminate the most damaging customer service frustrations
The principles that guide effortless customer experiences seem basic: Don’t make me wait Make it easy to access service Provide me with a knowledgeable and...
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