In this paper, three highly experienced mystery shopping experts share their knowledge and opinions on different aspects of mystery shopping in the luxury industry and how it is a vital ingredient in a holistic Customer Experience strategy.
Running global Customer Experience studies provides both better value for money than individual country studies and a degree of standardisation across markets. However, their validity remains at risk from an age-old research problem: cultural bias.
Measuring customer effort in isolation is not enough. Organisations need to measure the Customer: Company Effort Ratio (C:CER) which takes both perceived customer and company effort into account.
Are service expectations rising? Check out the Ipsos blog for more on the relationship between consumers’ assessment of a service encounter and their perception of the provider afterward.