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Customer Satisfaction in the digital age
When it comes to Customer Care, expectations are growing.
The standard is being set elsewhere.
The research
The rapid rise of “digital native” companies, such as Spotify or Uber, exposes customers to simple, streamlined user experiences designed from the ground up for digital delivery. With the advent of digital customer experience and the emergence of entirely digital players Digital Customer Care becomes an increasingly important element across the entire customer lifecycle.
Sprint Reply has conducted a study to research the field of Digital Customer Care (DCC) by performing in-depth interviews with digital customer service executives of large German corporations as well as Digital Experience technology suppliers. Furthermore, a technical benchmarking analysis of both B2C web and mobile services has been conducted.
The benefits of Digital Customer Care
FASTER
SERVICE
Companies using DCC systems have recognized that complaints and requests have been handled five times faster.
HIGHER CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Purely digital journeys drive higher customer satisfaction – users starting and ending a customer service interaction digitally show on an average 20% higher satisfaction rates.
LOWER
COST
Costs of digital approaches estimated to be significantly lower (i.e. -56% for chats; -12% for forum and FAQ; -9% for community solutions)
HIGHER
DIFFERENTIATION
A well designed digital support channels UIX allowing users to navigate faster and more intuitively with a high level of interactivity.
What do companies expect?
Customer Care is undergoing an evolution: In the past it has been regarded as an inevitable cost factor. But it is becoming more and more a strategic investment with measured ROI & NPS. Nowadays, DCC is consistently among the Top 5 strategic priorities of companies. Therefore, most participants already provide some kind of Digital Customer Care across the entire customer journey.
60%
of participants emphasize on Cost Reduction
30%
think that DCC leads to Cost Reduction and better Service
10%
see just a chance for Better Service
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THE OMNICHANNEL APPROACH
Omnichannel is a must-have for most participants, since their consumers use up to six channels for customer care requests. Seamless multichannel transactions, however, remain a challenge given the lack of backend system integration.
Traditional channels, including letters and fax are still of relevance for German consumers; together with call centers they still represent the vast majority of customer care interactions.
NEW CHANNELS ARE ON THE RISE
- Text Chat: 57% of the participating companies offer text chat on their website
- Video Chat: 29% have video chat in their portfolio
- AI Chatbots: 0%, despite the need for AI-enabled chatbots, they cannot be found on web yet
CHANNELS USED BY DAX 30
Most of the German DAX 30 companies are present on social media, especially on Facebook and Twitter, but Instagram also plays a major role. But these companies are not only present on these channels, but also interact with their customers via social media. Best practices are Allianz and Vonovia, with presence and interaction on all four social media channels analyzed for this study.
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