Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey, highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case for customer satisfaction. If you are committed to the future of your company, the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are becoming increasingly important to most organizations since the financial benefits from improving them have been well documented. This book presents a thorough examination of how to use research to understand customer satisfaction and loyalty. It takes the reader step-by-step through the process of designing and conducting a survey to generate accurate measures of customer satisfaction and loyalty. The research process is explained in detail, including questionnaire design, analysis and reporting, but the book also covers other elements of an effective customer satisfaction process. These include project planning, communicating with customers before, during and after the survey, as well as providing internal feedback and taking effective action to address issues raised by the survey. There is also comprehensive coverage of loyalty measurement methodologies as well as the satisfaction-profit chain and associated modelling and forecasting techniques.

"The mysteries of every aspect of questionnaires dissolve as author Bob E. Hayes leads you systematically through the scientific methodology used to construct questionnaires." "By using his guidelines you will be able to pinpoint customer expectations; develop questions to measure whether you are meeting these expectations; work toward meeting the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (1990) customer satisfaction requirements; evaluate the reliability and validity of any questionnaire; use questionnaire data to monitor work processes, evaluate intervention programs, and more . . . ." "The book includes significant discussions of reliability statistics for measuring questionnaire precision, as well as the statistical framework for using satisfaction questionnaires."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

You've heard the buzzwords: service quality; quality improvement; customer satisfaction. You've seen the techniques: fishbone diagrams; flow charts; brainstorming. Never before have so many service quality and customer satisfaction techniques been gathered, efficiently organized, and clearly presented in a single volume. This unique guide takes you through the maze of measurement tools, explaining each with clarity using exhibits and examples. Parts I and II give an overview of what service quality is and how standard measurement techniques can actually mislead if used incorrectly. In Part III, Chakrapani uses his "P3D3" matrix to explain which tool works best for different measurement needs. Part IV describes how to measure customer satisfaction, and Parts V and VI tie it all together with a discussion of developing a philosophy of quality and an overview of how to apply the right tools to different measurement problems. This book is an excellent introduction to those who are new in the field, as well as an indispensable reference for veterans in service quality and customer satisfaction.

Since more and more attention is being focused on customer value management, it's important to have a resource that synthesizes many bodies of research about how to obtain and interpret customer satisfaction data. it also provides the rationale, identifies opportunities, and suggests specific programs to improve the measurement of customer satisfaction in your organization. Serving as a single reference for customer satisfaction measurement technology, this book describes and teaches the five critical skills that should be part of each of your projects. *Sampling/customer-participant selection *Questionnaire design *Interviewing/survey administration *Data analysis *Quality function deployment-building action plans This book is an ideal follow-up and companion to the book by Bob E. Hayes, Measuring Customer Satisfaction (H0925).

Six Sigma changed the face of manufacturing quality. Now, HumanSigma is poised to do the same for sales and service organizations. Human Sigma offers an innovative, research-based approach to one of the toughest challenges businesses face today: how to effectively manage the employee-customer encounter to drive business success. Based on research spanning 10 million employees and 10 million customers around the world, the Human Sigma approach combines a proven method for assessing the health of the employee-customer encounter with a disciplined process for improving it. Human Sigma is based on five rules to bring excellence to how employees engage and interact with customers: RULE #1: E Pluribus Unum. Employee and customer experiences must be managed together — not as separate entities. RULE #2: Feelings Are Facts. Emotions drive and shape the employee-customer encounter. RULE #3: Think Globally, Measure and Act Locally. The employee-customer encounter must be measured and managed at the local level. RULE #4: There Is One Number You Need to Know. Employee and customer engagement interact to drive enhanced financial performance. And this interaction can be quantified and summarized with a single performance metric. RULE #5: If You Pray for Potatoes, You Better Grab a Hoe. Good intentions alone do not constitute a plan of action. Sustainable improvement in the employee-customer encounter requires disciplined local action coupled with a companywide commitment to changing how employees are recruited, positioned in roles, rewarded and recognized, and importantly, how they are managed. Essential reading for global business leaders, Human Sigma shows how sales and service companies can flourish in the new global economy. It reveals a profoundly different method for managing human systems for growth. Blending strategic analysis with hands-on, practical steps and advice, Human Sigma will change how you view your work, your employees and your customers forever.