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Research highlights need to drive customer experience at board level

Our research has revealed that customer experience is largely perceived as a strategic issue, with 81% of respondents agreeing that it should be driven at board level.

The research surveyed over 450 managers and above across retail and wholesale, financial services and banking, private healthcare, and insurance, and found that 86% of UK businesses are currently measuring customer experience.

The results highlight a clear need for senior executives to be knowledgeable about customer experience and measure it across the entire customer journey. The results revealed that 36% of organisations surveyed only measure customer experience at specific touchpoints (not across the entire customer journey), whilst 12% of UK businesses are still not measuring customer experience at all.

The companies who measure customer experience across the entire customer journey were 40% more likely to have reported revenue increases over the last 12 months than those who either measure customer experience on only a transactional level or who don’t measure it at all.

Commenting on the research, Mark Palmer (CEO, Gobeyond Partners) explains: “We were pleased to see that our recent survey findings validate the work we have been doing with our clients; namely that customer experience is a human issue which should be addressed strategically and prioritised by the board.

“We regularly recommend looking at the end-to-end customer journey through a more human lens. Our findings clearly highlight that introducing the human touch – at all levels of the journey – can radically transform the way you deliver service. For organisations to win in the race for customer loyalty and stronger profitability, they will need to successfully marry great technology and innovation with a major focus on what this means for customers and employees in the transformation journey. Taking this ‘human lens’ will differentiate the quality of solutions offered, drive greater efficiency in getting there and will better engage people on the change journey.”

 

Further findings from the research

  • 12% of UK businesses are not measuring customer experience at all;
  • 11% of businesses said they had no senior manager with accountability for customer experience;
  • 86% of retail respondents agreed that customer experience should be driven at board level and was the most likely industry to see customer experience as a strategic issue. This was followed closely by 85% of insurance respondents, 77% in banking, and 72% in private healthcare;
  • Of those who agreed customer experience should be driven at board level, only 37% strongly agreed that their company utilises customer feedback to improve service design and delivery

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