Employee surveys are used to help manage the employee relationship. The questions in the employee survey are used to elicit employee responses that will be used to better understand how to improve that relationship. I crafted a new employee survey question that combines the best of both structured and unstructured measurement approaches. This approach provides both qualitative […]
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Four Ways Big Data Can Improve Customer Surveys
Customer surveys remain the primary source of customer feedback for many companies, despite the growth in adoption of other customer feedback sources like social media, call center conversations and emails. Customer surveys typically contain structured questions, asking customers to rate their level of satisfaction with their experience. Two popular customer surveys are relationship and transactional […]
The Strategic and Tactical Roles of Customer Surveys
Customer experience (CX) improvement efforts rely heavily on the use of customer feedback. While there are many different methods of collecting this feedback, customer surveys remain a popular choice among CX professionals. In this post, I will discuss how senior executives can use relationship and transactional surveys to get the information they need to make better […]
Statistics: Is This Big Data’s Biggest Hurdle?
Big Data is less about the data itself and more about what you do with the data. The application of statistics and statistical principles on the data helps you extract the information it contains. According to Wikipedia, statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. The American Statistical Association defines statistics […]
Can Analytics Improve your Game?
The use of analytics is good for business. Researchers from MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM found that organizations that used business information and analytics outperformed organizations that did not. Businesses of all types are adopting the use of analytics to get use out of the vast amount of data that is being generated in our overly-quantified […]
In a Word: The Customer Sentiment Index
Did you know that CSI can help you understand, in just one word, the health of your customer relationships? No, I don’t mean Crime Scene Investigator, although that might help in some cases. I am writing about the Customer Sentiment Index (CSI), a measure based on a single word that customers use to describe a company. The […]
6 Customer Experience Practices of Loyalty Leaders
In this post, I study what loyalty-leading companies do differently than loyalty-lagging companies in their customer experience management (CEM) efforts. The research helps identify best practices that companies can adopt in their CEM efforts to increase customer loyalty. Customer satisfaction is important for business success. Satisfied customers recommend your brand to their friends, stay with you longer […]
Development of the Customer Sentiment Index: Reliability, Validity and Usefulness
This is Part 3 of a series on the Development of the Customer Sentiment Index (see introduction, Part 1 and Part 2). The CSI measures the degree to which customers hold positive/negative attitude about your company/brand. The CSI is based on a single survey question that asks customers to use the best word to describe the company/brand. This […]