Metrics, Scorecards, ROI

  • Innovation in Education: School Children Improve Their Families' Livelihoods

    At URDT, It Takes a Child to Raise a Village

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    Why not educate children to become masterful in envisioning and creating a better life for themselves and their families? That’s the innovative approach to education that URDT has been practicing for almost a decade.
    Nov. 25, 2009
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  • Self-Service CX Performance

    Response Time and Availability for Key Customer Self-Service Activities

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    From the customers’ standpoint, the most critical performance metrics are response time and availability at the customer user interface (UI). If you can’t respond within their timeframes, then they’re going to abandon you for the competition.
    Jul. 30, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Learn a New Skill

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in the Customer Scenario® Pattern of Acquiring a Skill

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It‘s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the outcome-based acquiring a skill scenario.
    Apr. 30, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Upgrade to a New "Model"

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Product/Service Upgrade" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical upgrade scenario.
    Feb. 26, 2009
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  • What Belongs on Your Customer Dashboard?

    Design Your Customer Dashboard to Monitor Performance on Customers' Moments of Truth

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    Tracking customer KPIs may be the cheapest bottom line boost available this year. Here’s what you should track, and why.
    Feb. 5, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Plan a Special Event

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Event Planning" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It’s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the event-based event planning scenario.
    Oct. 15, 2008
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  • How Customers Want to Return or Exchange a Product

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in Return/Exchange/Cancel Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical return/exchange/cancel scenario.
    Sep. 11, 2008
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  • Avoiding Search Pitfalls

    How to Sidestep and Recover from the Worst Problems

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    There are six big pitfalls that are peculiar to search projects. We have some advice on how to avoid them, or escape them if you’re already in the hole.
    Nov. 8, 2007
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  • What Customer-Centric Visionary Execs Are Doing in 2007

    Customer-Outcome-Driven Businesses, Disappearing Home Pages, and Other Trends

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    Want to know what’s on customer-centric execs’ minds? Here’s an overview of some of the topics discussed at Patty Seybold’s Spring 2007 Visionaries’ Meeting.
    May. 17, 2007
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  • Outside In

    What’s Beyond Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0? Biz 3.0!

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    Tim O’Reilly got the world thinking in new ways about the Internet with his principles of Web 2.0. Expanding from these principles, we can define the next generation of business, or Biz 3.0.
    Apr. 19, 2007
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  • Customer Co-Design in Rural Uganda

    How URDT Empowers Grass Roots Creativity

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    See how the URDT worked with Ugandan villagers to tackle issues of rural development. The approach they took is one that can be applicable for your organization as it works with customers to create innovative solutions.
    Mar. 8, 2007
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  • Measuring the Success of Online Communities

    A Customer-Centric Approach to ROI

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    A successful community is one in which members’ objectives—their Customer Scenarios—are met. This report outlines 7 steps in building a business case, and discusses key metrics to define success for specific Customer Scenarios.
    Feb. 22, 2007
    Strategies
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  • How to Get From Product 2.0 to BIZ 3.0

    Redeploy your Product-related Web 2.0 Services to Help Customers Reach Their Goals

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    Web 2.0 offers the ability to support each product lifecycle phase with Internet-enabled services. We call this approach: Product 2.0.
    Feb. 15, 2007
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  • Building Interactive Feedback into Your Products and Surrounding Services

    How Koko Fitness Enables Four Kinds of Interactive Feedback

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    How could your company benefit from building data gathering and interactive feedback into the products and services you offer? Learn how from Koko Fitness.
    Nov. 16, 2006
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  • Site Search Self-Assessment

    How Does Your Company’s Search Capability Stack Up?

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    If your organization can’t agree on whether your site search is adequate, use our self-assessment to shift from anecdote to analysis.
    Nov. 2, 2006
    Strategies
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  • What Differentiates the Search Experience?

    Philosophy and Search Management Make the Difference at Online Department Stores

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    Does site search differentiate the online customer experience? Evaluation of search at four department stores suggests that it does.
    Jul. 27, 2006
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  • Chief Customer Officer

    Jeanne Bliss Explains How to Overcome Organizational Barriers to Attain a Customer-Centric Culture

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    This book, Chief Customer Officer, is an accurate and useful guide that will help anyone understand how to move your organization through the steps required to shift your company’s culture to deliver a great customer experience.
    Jul. 13, 2006
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  • Search Experience Metrics

    Key Indicators You Should Be Tracking for Customer Search Experience

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    A great search experience is the starting point for an acceptable customer experience. There are 2 metrics that will tell you how well your company performs against customer expectations.
    Jul. 6, 2006
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  • Seeker Experience Survey

    Is Search Getting Better?

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    Our survey of seeker experience and projects to improve findability indicate much is spent, but much is left to be done.
    Jun. 1, 2006
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  • Koko Fitness

    Discovering Baby Boomers’ Health and Fitness Issues

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    Koko Fitness is a new start-up company that was designed from the outside in—starting with customers’ desired outcomes.
    Apr. 13, 2006
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