R "Ray" Wang
R "Ray" WangTrends: Real World Lessons In Optimizing The Customer Service Experience From Kana Connect
By now, you are well aware that "experience counts." Your customers' loyalty and future purchases hang in the balance. In this session, we'll explore the key things you can do to make sure their experiences are positive. Ray Wang from Constellation Research and Scott Hays from KANA guide an interactive workshop to invigorate your future initiatives.
Speaker(s): Scott Hays, Ray Wang, Constellation Research
The event began with a overview of Constellation 9C's of customer engagement and then an overview of the eight ways to optimize your customer service experience. Teams were broken up to documen current state and to rank future state. Teams were told to identify the top three ways among these eight strategies:
- Effortless and personalized
- Channel convenience
- Channel consistency
- Social media
- Unified agent desktop
- Agent knowledge
- Process-driven
- Internationalization
Results Show Future Focus on Channel Consistency, Social Media, and Effortless and Personalized
Given the Kana customer base, current state priorities of agent knowledge, process driven, and channel convenience came as little surprise to the participants. In fact, most workshop attendees have had
significant success in adopting these top 3 optimization strategies (see Figure 1). However, the future state rankings revealed emerging priorities in channel consistency, social media, and effortless and personalized strategies. Of note, unified agent desktop and channel convenience were not far behind in rankings.
Figure 1. Workshop Results Show Future Focus on Channel Consistency, Social Media, and Effortless and Personalized
| AREA | CURRENT We're Already Quite Good at This (1, 2 and 3) |
FUTURE Our Focus in the Next 12 Months (1, 2 and 3) |
| Effortless and Personalized | 2+0+1+3+3+1+0= 10 4 | 0+2+2+3+0+2+2=11 3 |
| Channel Convenience | 2+1+1+1+3+2+1= 11 3 | 1+1+0+0+2+3+2 = 9 5 |
| Channel Consistency | 0+0+1+0+1+0=2 7 | 2+1+1+2+2+4+3=15 1 |
| Social Media | 1+0+1+2+1+3+0=8 5 | 2+1+2+0+3+4+1=13 2 |
| Unified Agent Desktop | 1+1+1+0+0+1+2=6 6 | 0+0+2+1+3+4+0=10 4 |
| Agent Knowledge | 2+3+2+3+4+5+2=21 1 | 1+0+2+0+0+0+2=5 7 |
| Process-Driven | 0+2+1+2+1+4+3=13 2 | 2+2+1+0+1+1+0=7 6 |
| Internationalization | 1+2+1+0+0+0+1=5 8 | 2+0+0+2+1+0+1=7 6 |
The Bottom Line: Customer Centricity Is Required For Differentiation In A Digital World
A digital world requires organizations to practice what they preach. Customer centricity is a state of mind that requires leadership at the top. Most data on customer experience highlights a need for authenticity and relevancy in dealing with a brand or enterprise. With trust and transparency an increasing requirement for authentic business, leaders who fail to lead from the top, deliver great customer journeys, and apply the right CRM technologies will continue to fall behind as the digital business divide widens. Customer centricity is now a strategic imperative and requires first rate orchestration, company wide commitment, and leadership. A focus on channel consistency, social media, and effortless and personalized are good approaches to achieve customer centricity when designing and delivering customer service experience.
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