Automation helps customer support teams meet escalating demand

For many customer support teams, volume has skyrocketed over the past few weeks, making it harder to answer questions at scale. And though automation has always been an incredibly useful tool for support teams prior to this year, COVID-19 has made it an almost mandatory solution for teams to get back on top of demand. …

Look after your people – Jo Kelly, Chief Customer Officer for Good2Give

Jo Kelly, Chief Customer Officer for Good2Give, explains how great employee experiences create great customer experiences. Good2Give is a digital platform that facilitates charitable giving between corporations and charities. Good2Give’s customers are segmented into three levels of corporate clients, donors, and charities. They help companies run their workplace giving programs, manage employee donations and provide …

Using CX Data to grow your business

Research tells us that most companies who spend more time listening and responding to customer feedback grow faster than companies that don’t. However, drawing a line to connect actions based on customer feedback to financial performance is a significant challenge. In the broadest sense CX data refers to data and information an organisation collects about …

Is automation really killing customer service jobs?

Modern and disruptive technologies that are set to speed up automation and reduce headcount aren’t a new revelation. We frequently hear concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automations (RPA) will come at the cost of jobs, whilst leaving customers without access to real people to help solve their problems. But despite this fear, …

How useful are NPS, CES and CSAT scores in measuring CX success?

As companies pour resources into CX projects and initiatives they want to know the success of their efforts. The use of NPS (Net Promoter Score), CES (Customer Effort Score) and CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) to measure CX have come to dominate. Many business leaders, however, have come to question this over reliance on these metrics and …