Cybersecurity: CX Threat or Opportunity

The increased pace of digital transformation, due to the COVID pandemic, has drastically changed the cybersecurity landscape.  The potential impact of these changes and their ramifications for CX are significant. Organisations who can maintain a safe and secure digital environment for their customers, will have a substantial advantage over competitors who can’t.   A survey …

Five tips to obtaining qualitative customer feedback

You get the best insight into your business from your customers. They’re the ones who are experiencing everything firsthand. Your clients use your website, speak with your employees, and use your products. Feedback is an essential part of any business because it improves your customer’s experience, refines marketing strategies, and can help predict the future …

How empathy can drive customer support success

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, customer support teams have been on the front line, contending with increased ticket volumes at the same time as having to adapt to changing circumstances and shifting customers’ needs and expectations. With the complexities of remote working added to the mix, it has been a highly pressured time. In these circumstances, …

CX Leadership Profile: Lisa Dowie, Chief Customer Officer for PEXA

PEXA is an online property settlement platform used by 150 financial institutions as well as more than 9,000 legal and conveyancing firms across Australia. Lisa Dowie, Chief Customer Officer for PEXA, explains how PEXA’s commitment to providing exceptional experiences for its members and employees has helped the organisation cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. A world …

The post-COVID-19 contact centre

COVID-19 has changed workplaces permanently, and the call centre is no exception. Across Asia, where the technology and security allowed, call centre employees were sent home to work remotely. When work-from-home hasn’t been possible there have been some devastating consequences, such as the virus spreading rapidly if a single employee becomes infected, such as the …

Turning your company leaders into customer experience superheroes

It’s often said that to succeed, Customer Experience practitioners need a unique blend of resilience, patience and resourcefulness with a good dose of empathy. To fulfil an organisation goal of being customer centric and for your CX strategy to succeed, you will likely need to overcome the problem of organisational silos, where c-level executives and …

NPS and CSAT do not measure customer happiness

Customer happiness and customer retention are closely intertwined. NPS and CSAT are two of the most important CX metrics we use to assess what customers think about our organisations. Unfortunately, neither, on their own, allows brands to be truly objective in their understanding about customer happiness. The difference between happiness and satisfaction A dissatisfied customer …

Putting customers first means putting employees first

Most executives will readily say ‘our people’ are vital to the success of the business. Yet so many Australian organisations have inadequate employee engagement strategies in place. The coronavirus pandemic will be a defining moment in most people’s careers. How brands respond in the coming months will have a lasting impact on employee engagement, productivity …