Case Study: Technology
HGS empowers retailer with more actionable VOC survey and analytics
For an audio equipment designer and retailer, HGS uncovers issues that can lead to customer dissatisfaction internationally
At a glance
Location: Philippines
Team members: 350+
Services provided: CSAT survey and analytics, tier I and tier II technical support (with peer assist line to support escalations), voice, and email
Lines of business:
- Single connect (any product that has one connection such as headphones)
- Home theater multi-connect (one source, multiple connection points)
- Sound touch and wireless connect
- Aviation headsets
- Customer service and sales
Client background
The HGS survey analytics test pilot went live in February 2015. With this proof of concept, the client was able to experience the HGS-designed and deployed innovation, and observe the fastscoping and score-trending turnaround. The client understood these new insights as essential to their expansion to Manila. The aim, from the outset of the pilot, was effective catering to the multilocation customer base and business needs. HGS’s dashboards, and the nearly 15% increase in customer insights we now provide the client, have proven to be a firm foundation for increasingly targeted insights to drive operational results. The client continues to hand HGS more voice of the consumer responsibilities. And HGS responds with more precision and innovation. At the outset of the partnership, HGS had 100 agents, and today team members across the US, the Philippines, and Canada number 350-plus. With a US-UK service now expanding to Europe, ROI for the client has been strong.
The solution
Improved Customer Engagement, Customer Satisfaction Increase
How we do it
Prior to HGS’s hiring, the client was challenged with a reactive, basic survey function with no dashboarding. This did not allow for results segregation or comparative analysis to track CSAT or business improvements. HGS started by closely analyzing the USA/Canada customer survey questionnaire and redesigning the questions to capture the core tenets of CSAT measurement: such as:
- Issue resolution
- Agent satisfaction
- Likelihood to purchase
- Likelihood to recommend
- Satisfaction with service
- Customer effort
We aligned feedback with operations performance, such as first call resolution (FCR), that complements quality monitoring influenced by NPS®. Problems are bucketed by agent-related or process, policy, and system. If agent related, for example, team leaders and agents with poor performance are identified for follow-up on specific areas of improvement.
The new HGS survey was designed for ongoing visibility on performance trends, such as FCR. Surveys were then set up to be sent to end customers. Responses underwent meaningful quantitative and qualitative analysis and action items—for example common areas of product resolution challenges—were identified.
In the newly designed survey, scores for each survey question are displayed by the product group. The survey results are uploaded into dashboards, with end-to-end visibility for stakeholders across the client and HGS, both. HGS has plans to employ more in-depth speech and text analytics; however, current results are impressive, in terms of response rate.
Business result
Prior to HGS’s solution, the response rate was 6%, and this now stands at up to 19%. This is due, in part, to an intelligent routing strategy, employing low customer effort with:
- HGS’s device-agnostic survey, which can be completed on laptop, computer, and mobile phone
- Altering survey time of send based on prior open rates—in this case a morning send showed best results
Just eight weeks after implementation and with consistent ramp, results were optimizing customer experience for the client. On average, with the new HGS-designed survey, intelligent routing, and follow-up, tier 1 NPS® increased by approximately 11 points and tier 2 increased by 4 points, per wave. Additionally, on average, tier 1 top 3 CSAT increased by 5 points and tier 2 by 1 point.
After successful implementation for this client’s US and Canadian customers, and only a 60-day solution ramp and rollout, the client asked HGS to implement the new survey and distribution and capture process for their Europe geography, for nine countries in eight different languages. The HGS survey is now sent to Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Italy. This solution ramp took only two weeks.
Multilingual Support
How we do it
As a dedicated brand ambassador, HGS is fully aligned to this client’s globalization focus. HGS can bring our own resources and expertise to the table, and we do so with our global customer care language service delivery. Our survey solution and insights are replicated based on the success of our US/Canada rollout. Our expansion to our Europe call center and multilingual service are strong demonstrations of the client’s building trust in our innovation and expertise.
Business result
Today, HGS supports this client in gathering and analyzing essential voice of the customer insights in eight languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian. These capabilities are essential to ensure the voice of the consumer is transformed into actionable feedback, across the global customer base.
During the recruitment process for this client, we look for a variety of traits including technical aptitude and soft skills, but we also look for audiophiles, particularly musicians, as well as avid gamers who are adept at configuring their own gaming equipment. Every weekend, we offer a product loaner program where agents and borrow equipment for the weekend.
Results
This partnership has, in less than two years, continued to build on its own success: expanding across insights, capabilities, geos, and languages. To date, HGS has managed insights to contribute significantly to customer satisfaction measurement—measuring the client’s service delivery across the globe. With new speech and text mining capabilities, we will continue to contribute to the success factors that make this a showcase account—for the client and HGS alike.
Up to 19% survey response rate
11% increase on tier 1 NPS® average
91% CSAT
12 languages supported
“At a high level the CSAT survey HGS has built has allowed us to uncover failures in our processes that were driving dissatisfaction, so that we can begin to take corrective action. For example, it has helped unearth refund issues, email delivery issues, website order issues, and logistical issues just to name a few. All in all, the data and insights provided have allowed us to drive our customer satisfaction scores to levels we have never obtained historically.”
— Andrew Allain
Manager, Global Customer Service Quality
