Business Process Management + Social + Mobile = Recipe for Effective Customer Experience by Ajay Khanna

Most organizations know why customer experience is so important, but many companies still fail to deliver.

Inconsistent Customer Experiences Drive Customers Away

Not longer than a month ago, I wanted to order a mobile phone for a family member in Michigan. I was in San Jose, the high-tech capital, so I went online to the company’s website and placed the order. The phone was to be delivered to the Michigan address with an Ann Arbor area code within three days, but it didn’t happen.
On the fourth day, I called the company’s support center to check the status and was told that since I had ordered via the website, I needed to wait a week for the order to get into the call center system. I waited a few more days and called back. A seemingly helpful call center agent was able to locate my order and duly informed me that the order had been canceled because the billing zip code on my credit card didn’t match the area code for the new phone number! It wasn’t until I made time to visit a kiosk at the local mall that I was able to get everything resolved.

This type of service (or lack thereof) does not sit well with customers today. Customers have a choice and a voice, and the voice is amplified many folds with social media. What today’s consumers demand (or what I would have liked) is an experience that is consistent across all channels, contextual to their needs and adaptable to their situation.

Customers use multiple channels to interact with a company throughout their relationship with the company. They expect a consistent experience, no matter which interaction channel they choose. Customers don’t want to repeat the information they’ve already provided, and require companies to recall their preferences, and offer relevant products and services.

Business Process Management + Social + Mobile = Engaged Customers

Because so many customer experiences are linked to underlying business processes, Business Process Management technology is very well suited to help improve engagement with customers through different lifecycles, whether it is customer sales, support or provisioning. Combine (and integrate) that with the advantages of social and mobile and you can extend the value that was not possible in the past. Read the full article here.

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