3a. Metrics, Measurement & ROI Flashcards
Giving your customer-facing employees the agency to make decisions and take action will most likely minimize which of the following?
A) ROI
B) Employee turnover
C) Customer Effort
D) Cost of doing business
C) Customer Effort
Which of the following measurements uses a series of questions asking customers to rate their satisfaction with a company from very dissatisfied to very satisfied?
A) CES (Customer Effort Score)
B) WoMi (Word of Mouth index)
C) CSAT (Customer Satisfaction)
D) NPS (Net Promoter Score)
C) CSAT (Customer Satisfaction)
Which of the following is suggested for companies wanting to build their own CX ROI Model?
A) Enlist the CFO
B) Use existing metrics and be conservative
C) Create a simple story and organize results
D) All the above
D) All the above
A corporate marketing team has decided to launch a grassroots campaign to curb customer attrition. Which of the following is the team most likely to do?
A) Consult with all the firm’s customers no matter how many there are
B) Gather input from every part of the business
C) Earn an audience with every member of staff no matter how time-consuming it may be
D) Maintain control over the voice of the customer
B) Gather input from every part of the business
Which of the following do typical business cases rely on for Cost-Benefit Analysis?
A) Loyalty metrics
B) Financial metrics
C) Value metrics
D) Customer Effort Score
B) Financial metrics
Which of the following is most popular measurement metric tool for the intended behavior of a customer?
A) National Customer Survey Score
B) Customer Experience Index
C) Net Promoter Score
D) American Customer Happiness Index
C) Net Promoter Score
An example of a forward-looking financial metric is which of the following?
A) NPS (Net Promoter Score)
B) CSAT (Customer Satisfaction)
C) CES (Customer Effort Score)
D) CLV (Customer Lifetime Value)
D) CLV (Customer Lifetime Value)
Which of the following should be one of the first priorities of a business?
A) Address inventory control
B) Maximize efforts to meet customers’ needs prior to contacting
C) Minimize necessary interactions with Customer Service contacts
D) Handle current problems and to minimize the need for customers to contact Customer Service about it again
B) Maximize efforts to meet customers’ needs prior to contacting
Which of the following statements is true?
A) Increases in customer retention and acquisition are the result of successful marketing strategies.
B) Firms need to be careful not to make decisions about customer acquisition and customer retention in isolation.
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b
C) Both a and b
Which of the following statements is mostly true?
A) The evaluation of service quality is distinct from the assessment of experience quality.
B) The evaluation of service quality is the same as the assessment of experience quality.
C) The evaluation of service quality is comparable to the assessment of experience quality.
D) The evaluation of service quality is unrelated to the assessment of experience quality.
A) The evaluation of service quality is distinct from the assessment of experience quality.
Which of the following is the best way to increase retention of a company?
A) Customer experience
B) Low prices
C) Customer service
D) Self service
A) Customer experience
Adopting an effective measurement practice will allow a company to understand which of the following, about a good or bad experience?
A) Goals
B) Costs
C) Drivers
D) Ideas
C) Drivers
All the following are measured by a descriptive, quantitative metric EXCEPT:
A) Likelihood to recommend
B) Call and email volume
C) Average call time
D) Website visits
A) Likelihood to recommend
The journey for companies to build an explicit link to value begins with which of the following steps?
A) Link what customers say to what they do.
B) Analyze the historical performance of real customer cohorts.
C) Look at the trend to take a forward-looking view.
D) Develop a hypothesis about customer outcomes that matter.
D) Develop a hypothesis about customer outcomes that matter.
Purchase intent, churn, and word of mouth are examples of which of the following?
A) Common loyalty metrics used mainly in retail businesses.
B) Common loyalty metrics used in business today.
C) Common loyalty metrics which remain unquestioned.
D) Common loyalty metrics used too often in business today.
B) Common loyalty metrics used in business today.
Organizations can further reap the benefits of a customer-centric survey program model by doing some or all the following EXCEPT:
A) Structure the survey to match the interaction
B) Do not let customers see the feedback others provide causing unneeded influence
C) Communicate how feedback is being used
D) Let customers track follow-up activities
B) Do not let customers see the feedback others provide causing unneeded influence
Which of the following determines the real causes of your customer experience problems?
A) Emotion metrics
B) Emotion analysis
C) Cause metrics
D) Root cause analysis
D) Root cause analysis
Which of the following is not a company’s touch-point?
A) Employees and channels
B) Systems
C) Products and services
D) Customer perceptions
D) Customer perceptions
Which of the following defines referral economics?
A) Value of individual purchase behaviors – how much a customer spends with the company over a given period
B) The amount of new business that is gained—or lost—as a function of the messages that individual customers share via word of mouth
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b
B) The amount of new business that is gained—or lost—as a function of the messages that individual customers share via word of mouth
Collecting feedback about customers from agents benefits MOST which of the following best practices?
A) Align the organization for success
B) Design a framework for customer knowledge management
C) Continually improve customer knowledge management practices
D) Focus on the agent experience
C) Continually improve customer knowledge management practices
Explanation: Customer knowledge management is a company’s process for collecting, storing, evaluating, and analyzing customer data and insights. This typically includes information such as purchase history, demographics, customer feedback, past customer service interactions, and more.
Which statement best summarizes what market researchers must do in relate to customer experience?
A) Market Researchers need to measure customer experience before and after the service encounter(s) and account for both direct and indirect contacts and peer influences.
B) Market Researchers need to measure customer experience only before service encounter(s) and account for both direct and indirect contacts and peer influences.
C) Market Researchers need to measure customer experience only after the service encounter(s) and account for both direct and indirect contacts and peer influences.
D) Market Researchers need to measure customer experience before and after the service encounter(s) but not account for indirect contacts and peer influences.
A) Market Researchers need to measure customer experience before and after the service encounter(s) and account for both direct and indirect contacts and peer influences.
Relying on complex predictive models if business rules are sufficient is a best practice for:
A) Aligning key business imperatives
B) Delivering next best actions through priority interaction channels
C) Using trustworthy data to inform next best actions
D) Driving next best actions with advanced analytics and rules
D) Driving next best actions with advanced analytics and rules
Which of the following strategies is useful for in-depth follow-ups and engagement?
A) Always follow-up personally with every single person who submits an NPS survey
B) Send prepared responses to those who respond to an NPS survey
C) Respond only to NPS surveys with scores of seven or below
D) Respond only to NPS surveys with scores of nine or ten
A) Always follow-up personally with every single person who submits an NPS survey
Which of the following is transforming relationship marketing from its initial database orientation into collaborative relationships with customers?
A) Better consumers
B) The Internet
C) Lower profit margins
D) Greater demand for products
B) The Internet
Find the correct Net Promoter Score using the given raw data: Detractors = 130, Passives = 120, Promoters =250
A) 26
B) 50
C) 120
D) 24
D) 24
Which of the following core constructs includes the degree to which the company offered caring, individualized attention?
A) Tangibles
B) Reliability
C) Responsiveness
D) Empathy
D) Empathy
Explanation: The RATER framework eases the transition from information to action by dividing service issues into the five service dimensions customers care about:
Reliability: do you deliver as promised?
Assurance: does your organization inspire confidence?
Tangibles: does your company present itself professionally?
Empathy: are your team members understanding and empowered to solve problems in personalized and caring manner?
Responsiveness: does your team address queries within the expected time frame?
By using questionnaires designed with the RATER metric, you can discover the gaps between what your company delivers and what your customers expect, then use that information to make changes that increase retention.
Which of the following is an example of a customer feedback channel?
A) Focus groups
B) Data from inbound customer letters, phone calls and emails
C) Feedback that is posted openly on social media websites, blogs and review sites
D) All the above
D) All the above
Adopting an effective measurement practice will allow a company to know with certainty how its customers feel about which of the following?
A) The interactions with the employees
B) The experiences provided
C) Their thoughts about returning
D) All the above
D) All the above
Which of the following is the most useful measuring tool after customer service interactions, website visits, online checkouts, and purchases or sales interactions?
A) Net Promoter Score (NPS)
B) Customer Effort Score (CES)
C) Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)
D) Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
B) Customer Effort Score (CES)
Observations, case studies, and surveys are included as methods for which of the following types of research?
A) Descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Explanatory
D) Systemic
A) Descriptive
Descriptive research aims to accurately and systematically describe a population, situation or phenomenon. It can answer what, where, when and how questions, but not why questions.
Explanatory research is a research method that explores why something occurs when limited information is available
A correlational research design investigates relationships between variables without the researcher controlling or manipulating any of them
Which of the following types of research is related to the what, when, where and who?
A) Descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Explanatory
D) Systemic
A) Descriptive
Creating loyalty, driving advocacy, and increasing the share of wallet is a part of which of the following business outcomes?
A) Loyalty
B) Acquisition
C) Efficiency
D) Retention & Growth
D) Retention & Growth
All the following could be responsible for the poor performance of a business EXCEPT:
A) Business model
B) Management priorities
C) Customers
D) Auditing
D) Auditing
Which of the following best defines first response time?
A) The average amount of time it takes for a customer to get an initial response to their support issue.
B) The average amount of time it takes to resolve a customer support interaction from start to finish.
C) The time spent interacting with customers on calls, email, chat or anything else—as well as the time between interactions.
D) None of the above
A) The average amount of time it takes for a customer to get an initial response to their support issue.
The standard NPS scale does NOT include which of the following categories?
A) Passives
B) Detractors
C) Promotors
D) No Answer, as all are parts of the NPS
D) No Answer, as all are parts of the NPS
To grow a store’s customer base, the retailer needs information about which of the following?
A) Spending habits of current consumers
B) Consumers who are shopping at competitors’ stores
C) Consumers who are not currently shopping at its store
D) Both B and C
C) Consumers who are not currently shopping at its store
It’s important to utilize metrics and measurements and to communicate them across the organization. You should provide visibility across different functions to allow steakholders find and see the root causes of pain points. In order to gain all of this, which of the following can be developed?
A) Blogs
B) Dashboards
C) Communication tools
D) Applications
C) Communication tools
Explanation: dashboards are one of the tools you can use.
Which of the following do you first need to understand, in order to choose which of the customer experiences you want to measure?
A) The employees’ roles in the customer experience.
B) The perceptions of discrete, end-to-end customer journeys.
C) The big picture, or broad view of the overall customer experience over time.
D) The customers’ views related to the brand.
C) The big picture, or broad view of the overall customer experience over time.
Which of the following includes social media listening and analytics capabilities?
A) Customer experience strategy and design
B) Customer experience information management
C) Customer experience insights
D) Customer experience delivery
C) Customer experience insights
Which of the following is an example of social experience?
A) Satisfaction that attached to a brand, degree of experiencing critical incidents, invest more in their relationships than other customers
B) The relationship with others and society, impacts toward individual through family, schooling, peer groups, and mass media
C) Sensation or knowledge acquisition resulting from some level of interaction with different elements of a context created by the service provider
D) Perceptions about the shopping carts
B) The relationship with others and society, impacts toward individual through family, schooling, peer groups, and mass media
Which of the following statements best defines an experience-audit?
A) A tool that is used to systematically investigate the present experiences of the customers and to elucidate the emotional responses of customers toward any clue.
B) Considers what is right and wrong about the experience your customers have with you – not just in rational and functional terms but also in emotional terms.
C) Both a and b
D) Neither a nor b
C) Both a and b
Which of the following may occur if a customer is engaged with a brand?
A) They are likely to enjoy the interaction with the company.
B) They may participate in the design of products and services.
C) They may contribute to the products and services offered.
D) All the above
D) All the above
Promoters, passives, detractors; the perception of organization over time; and comparisons between organizations are elements of which CX metric?
A) ASCI (American Customer Satisfaction Index)
B) NPS (Net Promoter Score)
C) WoMi (Word of Mouth index)
D) CES (Customer Effort Score)
B) NPS (Net Promoter Score)
A customer experience scorecard is a process that links metrics together and can be a strategic tool which focuses the organization on which of the following?
A) Loyalty
B) Satisfaction
C) Advocacy
D) Customer value creation
D) Customer value creation
What statement best describes the use of self-service channels for customers?
A) They are stagnant
B) They are decreasing
C) They are increasing
D) None of the above
C) They are increasing
“Did it meet needs?”, “Was it easy?”, and “Did they enjoy it?”, are all questions related to a customer’s experience that will measure which of the following?
A) Loyalty
B) Perceptions
C) Ideas
D) Feedback
B) Perceptions
Which of the following types of research deals with everything that can be counted and studied and has an impact on the experience of customers?
A) Descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Explanatory
D) Systemic
A) Descriptive
All the following are the results of an effective measurement program for a company EXCEPT:
A) Capture what happened during a customer interaction
B) Discover the cost of doing business with another company
C) Discover whether the customer is willing to recommend
D) Discover how the customer felt about an interaction
B) Discover the cost of doing business with another company
Which of the following includes alignment of incentives to customer experience performances?
A) Customer experience strategy and design
B) Customer experience information management
C) Customer experience insights
D) Customer experience delivery
A) Customer experience strategy and design
Courtesy, empathy, rapport, warmth, and trust are examples of which of the following?
A) Emotional elements that are an important part of the experience at many customer touchpoints
B) Expected characteristics of a company’s employees
C) Rational needs of a customer that must be fully appreciated and addressed
D) None of the above
A) Emotional elements that are an important part of the experience at many customer touchpoints