Industry Performance in 2010 Improves Slightly Over 2009 in Web Self-Service, but Remains Flat and Barely "Average" in Overall Service, According to Latest Research From eGain
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - February 23, 2010) - eGain Communications Corporation (
eGain has been tracking and reporting on the state of customer service in North America and Europe over the last several years through the industry's most comprehensive mystery-shopping multichannel research study. This research provides a holistic assessment of the state of multichannel customer experience within and across phone and eService channels.
"The customer experience, at every interaction, affects future revenue and profit. Customer experience optimization, therefore, ensures that such customer experiences across channels reinforce the organization's basic brand value proposition, and differentiate its business," said Johan Jacobs, Research Director at Gartner in his research note "Ten Imperatives for Optimizing the Multichannel Management Customer Experience," dated October 30, 2009.
Conducted and compiled in late 2009 and early 2010, eGain's "2010 State of Multichannel Customer Service" research evaluates multiple aspects of web self-service and contact center customer service of 175 leading enterprises in the U.S. and Canada, many Fortune 1000 companies among them. All of them had an annual revenue of more than $250 million, and are equally distributed across the financial services, retail, communications, consumer goods, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals sectors.
Analysts used a "mystery shopping" approach to measure customer service performance in six dimensions: choice of communication channels, email response, web self-service, cross-channel consistency, single-channel cross-agent consistency, and phone customer service*. Scores for these metrics were then abstracted to an overall Service Quotient (SQ), on a scale of 0.0 to 4.0, for each company, as well as for each industry sector and the overall market.
The numeric scores map to the following ratings:
Key findings
"Our research shows that customer experience suffered as businesses hunkered down in a tough market," said Ashu Roy, Chairman and CEO of eGain. "Even so, smart businesses are adopting a Customer Interaction Hub (CIH) strategy as a cost-effective way to deliver superior customer experience today, while investing in a platform for innovation."
Details of findings will be presented at an online seminar on February 24, 2010. To attend, register at:
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* Telephone customer service was included as an additional area of measurement for this year's research, and included criteria such as the number of transfers and hold time.
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