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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT
Seminar No: 04536 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.2
Length: 2 days


Link your customer measurement to customer loyalty.

Here are the current strategies, methods and tools used by major organizations to measure customer satisfaction!

Attendees:
Customer satisfaction measurement specialists who want to improve their existing measurement processes and results...those who are initiating a new customer satisfaction measurement process...quality improvement professionals who want to link customer satisfaction measurement with existing process improvement activities...and managers who want to use customer information to help them enhance their operations.

How You Will Benefit:

  • Improve product or service performance through accurate and meaningful customer feedback
  • Identify—and focus on—the "right" customers to get the best results from your measurement efforts
  • Boost new product or service success by involving customer needs earlier in the development process

What You Will Cover:

  • Defining the concept of satisfaction measurement and the concept of a customer satisfaction information system (CSIS)
  • Customer identification: Sampling strategies and identification of potential, latent and former customers
  • Strategies for customer satisfaction measurement on the Web
  • Customer satisfaction measurement systems
  • Linking customer satisfaction measurement with bottom-line results
  • Effective use of customer satisfaction information

Extended/Detailed Seminar Outline

Learning Objectives

  • Improve Product or Service Performance through Accurate and Meaningful Customer Feedback
  • Identify-and Focus on-the "Right" Customers to Get the Best Results from Your Measurement Efforts
  • Boost New Product or Service Success by Involving Customer Needs Earlier in the Development Process
Introduction
  • Introduce the Purpose of the Seminar
  • Discuss the Traditional Challenges to Effective Customer Measurement and Retention Activities
  • Discuss the Participants' Individual and Organizational Goals and Objectives with Respect to the Topic
Measuring Customer Retention
  • Discuss the Traditional Assumptions about Loyal Customers
  • Discuss the Value of Retaining Customers
  • Discuss the Specific Types of Customer Retention Measures
Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty
  • Discuss the Traditional Assumptions about the Relationship between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty
  • Discuss Specific Challenges to These Traditional Assumptions
  • Discuss Recent Findings That Suggest the Need to Develop a More Aggressive Perspective with Respect to the Satisfaction-Loyalty Relationship
Developing an Effective Customer Satisfaction Measurement System (CSMS)
  • Discuss the Important Requirements of an Effective CSMS from the Individual User Perspective
  • Discuss the Important Requirements of an Effective CSMS from the Organizational Perspective
Effective Customer Measurement Practices
  • Discuss Recommendations for Development of Effective CSMS Measurement Instruments
    • Attribute Analysis
    • Developing Appropriate Scales of Measurement
    • Design and Testing of Customer Questions
    • Design, Development, and Test of Measurement Instruments
Defining the "Customer" in CSMS
  • Present the Topic of Customer Segmentation as a Major Feature of a Well-Designed CSMS
  • Present a "Menu" of Segmentation Categories and Sub-Categories That Are Commonly Used in Current CSMS
Managing CSMS: Key Issues
  • Identify Key Topics That Define Effective Management of CSMS:
    • Clear Strategies and Objectives
    • Senior Management Behavior
    • Communications
    • Training
    • Linkage with Process Improvement Tools
    • Clear User Objectives and Behaviors
    • Clear User Outcomes
    • Link CSMS with Appropriate Customer Outcomes
    • Continuous Review and Improvement
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Collecting Customer Information
  • Discuss Various Common Methods Used for Collecting CSMS Information, Citing Advantages and Disadvantages of Each Method
  • Discuss a Variety of Attribute Measurement "Scales" in Order to Promote Greater Levels of Variety in Measurement Development and to Increase the Usefulness of CSMS Information
Analysis and Display of Customer Data
  • Discussion of Recommended Methods for Analysis and Display of CSMS Information
CSMS: A System Approach
  • Position the Development and Management of CSMS as "Systems Model," Identify Key Stages in Measurement Design, Development, Launch, and Maintenance
  • Identify Important Levels of Individual Involvement in the Development and Management of the CSMS Process
  • Identify Specific CSMS Deliverables That Are Typical and Important in Each Stage of CSMS Development

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