McKinsey on the Future of Customer Experience

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Dr. Zanna van der Aa

CX Transformation Leader

In these Weekly Reviews I share the highlights of CX content from board-level trusted sources like McKinsey, Harvard Business Review, Forrester, Medallia, Qualtrics, etc. 

 

3 Key Insights

  1. Improving CX increases revenue by 2-7%, profitability by 1-2% and shareholder return by 7-10%
  2. Surveys are not enough to be in the driving seat of customer experience, you also want to use available data: customer, operational and financial data.
  3. As a starting point, CEO’s and boards need to embrace CX and put it on the agenda.

3 Quotes to use

  1. “The future of growth will be experience-led and customer-centred.”
  2. “Many organisations still struggle to understand what really drives customer experience.”
  3. “Take a journey-based view: it’s often only 2-3 journeys that really drive 70% of the experience”

3 Points to confirm

  1. The financial impact has been proven extensively, this adds to that as well
  2. The struggle to find what drives CX –> watch my slideshare video on journeys, surveys and drivers if you are stuggling with this as well.
  3. You need to understand the sense and nonsense of using surveys

3 Points to challenge

  1. Be careful when using operational data, it will help you fix the dissatisfiers for sure, but you need surveys to assess the satisfiers or you are going for a 7 or 8 tops, but will never reach the 9+ that will start yielding financial results.
  2. Always be aware: yes, CX will yield substantial financial results, but only from an 8 or 9+ score in satisfaction or NPS. 
  3. Even though it has become the industry standards in the last decade, be aware of the risks of using NPS –> check out my slideshare Your NPS Assessment Toolkit.

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