NPS may be hurting your employees
If you’re looking for a reason not to use NPS as your top-line CX metric, I’ve got one for you: Depending on your business and/or your business model, it’s just plain dumb. […]
Just stop with the KPIs already
Okay, so this is going to be controversial. Scandalous, even. But I’m going to come right out and say it: Please stop with the KPIs. Just quit it already. Whether you’re using NPS, C-SAT, CES…whatever it is, you’re only hurting your own CX efforts. And I’ll tell you why: Because you’re not getting anything out [...]
Quantitative versus Qualitative
I just got off the phone with a colleague and we were having a conversation about data. He brought up some good questions and points and so I figured I’d jot a few of them down here before they went right out of my head again. The gist of the discussion was the difference between [...]
Your KPIs aren’t as important as your Customers’ actual experiences
Let me be scandalous for a second here (okay, it’s not nearly as scandalous as I sometimes get in real life, but bear with me): Stop looking at your scores. Just stop. […]
Metrics: Output vs. Outcomes
Y’all know I’m a big fan of metrics. Long before I was in CX, I was in Process Engineering (Lean Six Sigma and Operations Research), and long before that I was an analyst. My BS is in Mathematics, and I teach Statistics at the Air Force Academy. So yea, I dig numbers. I write about them [...]
Processing your survey results
Recently I fielded a question about NPS survey data: How do you process it? How do you use it? I popped off a quick response, but I’d like to go a little deeper on the topic here. First of all, it’s not a specific NPS question. It doesn’t matter what sort of survey you send [...]
Your CES isn’t telling you enough
With all due deference to Matt Dixon, sometimes “effort” is a tricky thing to define. I worked with one team that ran around and around about it constantly it seemed. Matt’s Customer Effort Score (CES) metric basically asks the Customer to rank his or her satisfaction with the amount of effort expended to solve an [...]
Lead and lag measures
You know I’m all about metrics and measures. One of the things that made entering the CX profession so attractive to me was that this is a field of study that’s not only based in numbers, it’s starving for people who have an affinity for measuring. CX is a study that’s founded on measuring…from survey [...]
I’m on Nick’s podcast!
Check out my episode of Nick Glimsdahl's podcast, Press 1 For Nick that we recorded a while back and went live this morning:
Close the loop on your feedback
You’ve likely heard about the concept and practice of “closing the loop” or a “closed-loop feedback” (CLF) cycle. What is it, and how does it work? There are actually a couple types of closed-loop feedback systems depending on whether you’re talking about internal or external feedback. Internal refers to an employee feedback mechanism where as [...]
