Customer Insights


Voice of the Customer Publication

How to adapt your VoC programme during COVID-19

Continuing to engage with customers during COVID-19 is a strategic imperative. However, proceeding ‘as normal’ is neither empathetic nor likely to understand the full picture of changing customer experiences. Here we discuss how your brand must react to the functional and emotional needs of your customers.
Mystery Shopping Publication

Video Mystery Shopping – Closer to real

Video research can get us closer to real, consumer-led insights. So, shouldn’t you put video at the centre of more of your mystery shopping?
Customer Experience Publication

CX Council – Structuring the Unstructured

Following the CX Council on the 20 November at The Dorchester, you can now access the slides from the event.
Customer Experience Publication

Customer Experience and information – a terminal issue?

Tim Voigtländer recounts his experience as a customer of a low-cost airline when something went wrong - what lessons can companies learn from his customer experience?
Financial Services Publication

A Recipe for My Finances: How banks can better cater for new savers

In a world with more online sources for pasta sauces than ISAs and mortgages, why haven’t financial institutions got their online presence for fledgling savers organised? Nina Gaber examines the ingredients financial services could add to their current offerings.
Customer Experience Publication

Customer Experience is Everyone’s Business

Customer expectations are higher than ever before, so why aren't more UK businesses taking the role of delivering an exceptional Customer Experience seriously?  
Customer Experience Publication

Mind the gap: Why what a brand promises and what it delivers matter

What happens when there is a mismatch between what a brand promises to its consumers and their actual experience? Fiona Moss explores the promise-experience gap, the benefits of aligning the two and the pitfalls of over-promising.
Customer Experience Publication

High hopes: Tips for ensuring successful text analytics

Text analytics is now an established component of many market research programmes. However, as its popularity has increased, so have expectations of what it can deliver. Here, Fiona Moss provides five ground rules to follow to ensure more success in using text analytics tools.
Society Publication

Understanding the customer journey of small businesses that cannot meet their tax liabilities

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) commissioned qualitative research with business customers who had been in debt to HMRC to understand more about their needs and experiences.