by Jo Davies | 23 Sep, 2019 | Our blog
Whilst it is increasingly recognised that frontline customer-facing employees are responsible for delivering an organisation’s strategy, the development programmes designed for frontline customer service management have often failed to deliver the improvements that...
by Marcus Hickman | 1 Jul, 2019 | Customer experience, Our blog
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...
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...
by Marcus Hickman | 2 May, 2019 | Our blog
We define thought leadership as research that has original insights which challenge industry thinking. Thought leadership is a catalyst to new strategies and whilst it benefits from the rise of content marketing it is also being challenged by it. The distinction...
by Marcus Hickman | 27 Apr, 2019 | Our blog
For those who are loyal listeners to Tim Harford’s More or Less programme on Radio 4, Professor David Spiegelhalter will be a familiar name. He is often interviewed to help listeners make sense of controversial or contradictory statistical results. In a similar field,...
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,...
