– Written by Elizabeth Farquhar for the Center for Services Leadership After the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, State Farm shifted into catastrophe mode. By March 20 everyone was working at home. It was a remarkably nimble move for a large company where relatively few had been working remotely in the …
By Scott Broetzmann Customer Rage – Many companies don’t really understand it and are impotent to manage it because they are infatuated with insincere customer experience metrics and narrowly focused on optimizing a transaction. Consider these disquieting facts from the 2015 National Customer Rage survey: Customers are experiencing an ever-increasing level of problems with products and services; 54% …
By Mary Murcott “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate”. That is a reference to the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, and my assessment after rereading the findings of our Consumer Study on Customer Rage associated with complaints and the complaint handling process. The communication problem exists on many levels – between customers …
