Tag: Customer Experience

Call Recording and the Future of Enhanced Customer Service

Historically, businesses have primarily perceived call recording as a regulatory insurance policy. The typical process was that calls were recorded, archived, and then accessed whenever a complaint was made. Some organisations still see call recording primarily in this way today. Other businesses...

Better Complaint Management Through Customer Journey Mapping

Nobody wants to receive a complaint about their product or service, but the reality is that we can’t please all of our customers all of the time.   The time when customer complaints were hidden is now thankfully long gone. Appearing as...

Judging at the UK Complaint Handling Awards: What I Learned

Basia Szumska-Hare judged at the 2019 UK Complaint Handling Awards in London earlier this month. So, it’s Friday March 8th in London, the sky is blue, the children didn’t complain about getting ready for school, and I didn’t hear any complaints of...

How Effective is Your Complaints Procedure?

So, you have an effective complaints procedure in place; you are engaging with customers, finding problems and working through solutions, but just one important question remains: “How well are we doing?” There is, of course, one clear sign of an effective...

A Judge’s Guide to Awards Success

Daniel Ord is the Founder and Director of OmniTouch International, and a judge at the Gulf Customer Experience Awards.This year I’m scheduled to judge awards entries in Dubai, London, Amsterdam, and Wiesbaden (Germany).I think the benefits for an industry practitioner...

B2B E-commerce Lagging Behind B2C for Customer Experience

Poor product visualisation is preventing almost a quarter of B2B customers from making purchases online, according to a new report. E-commerce agency PushON surveyed 500 key business decision makers from up and down the country and found that although the majority of B2B...

Five essentials for a world-class customer experience programme

I’ve been reflecting on what successful CX leaders we partner with at Medallia are doing, and have identified five key actions to ensure a world-class customer experience programme. 1. Start with the end in mind Visualise where you want to be at...

Get Ready for the Gulf Customer Experience Awards

A new year has dawned and with January comes the countdown to the finals of the Gulf Customer Experience Awards.The annual event is celebrating its fourth year in 2019, and continues to be the Middle East’s premier platform for honouring...

The Human Touch: How Well do you Know Your Customer?

Is the increase in martech spend at the cost of Customer Experience? There’s a growing challenge in marketing that we’re not speaking about nearly enough. For all the investment brands are ploughing into technology to increase capability and visibility, many still...

Cranfield School of Management Among World’s Best in Wall Street Journal Rankings

Cranfield School of Management, which partners the UK Customer Experience and Employee Experience Awards among others, is celebrating after its MBA and its Finance and Management MSc were named as two of the world’s very best programmes in the new...