Innovation

Customer Experience is a pervasive question that extends into the world of Contact Centers. Today it is vital for services offered to satisfy the needs of increasingly attentive, demanding and ‘social’ users.

Contact Centers must therefore be seen in a broader perspective than the one used in traditional approaches. This requires companies to make an organizational effort to deepen the partnership between Client and Contact Center, as they both are dependent on technology in order to implement their shared strategy.

For the last five years, Transcom Germany has been working with a leading satellite navigation brand, offering first and second level technical assistance to drivers who buy a GPS unit. When they have trouble updating the software or other installation or usage issues, users contact our team of technical specialists at the Transcom site in Halle, Germany.

In an ever more competitive market, adopting advanced relationship strategies with customers represents a differentiating factor and an effective way to create a sustainable, long-term competitive edge. In this scenario, retaining customers is increasingly difficult because they are bombarded daily by often very effective marketing communications. That is why we need to turn to the latest new business models, which are increasingly directed at enhancing the customer experience.

In recent years, continuous transformation, evolving technology and huge social media growth have exponentially increased customers' influence over your brand and radically modified the way that companies do business. Recently, “Customer Experience” has been defined as “how your customers perceive their interactions with your company as a whole” (cit. Manning and Bodyne). This means that the customer experience is determined by each of the touch-points through which the customer interacts with the company.

In March, Transcom Italy presented its new Research and Innovation Center for Customer Experience to the press and the local authorities. The center is located in L’Aquila and set up jointly as a partnership with L’Aquila University and local contact center company Elleacall.

Following April’s announcement that Transcom received the Frost & Sullivan 2015 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award in Europe, we had been invited to attend the “2015 Gr

Our Leeds site has enjoyed a successful partnership directly with the primary loan provider for further education in the UK for five years. During 2014 the UK Government created a new outsourcing model (Debt Market Integrator) that controls the placement of Government owned debts.

Access to new means of communication has revolutionized the way businesses interact with customers. From the traditional Facebook, Twitter and Tripadvisor, to the more theme-based Pinterest, Foursquare and Gogobot, consumers are increasingly interested in developing a rapid and loyal relationship with brands that they can influence through their needs and behavior. Therefore, more and more companies turn to these channels and invest a larger portion of their communications budget in them.

In recent years e-commerce has reported staggering growth worldwide. In June 2014, Ecommerce Europe published its 2014 report on European e-commerce in the Business to Consumer (B2C) market for goods and services, offering an updated picture of the market size in Europe and the rest of the world.