Pipeline Publishing, Volume 6, Issue 12
This Month's Issue:
Making Customers Happy
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Creating a Consistent Customer Experience - How CSPs can learn a lesson from Apple’s approach to CEM

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ConceptWave provided the operator with a centralized information portal that can pull data from multiple back end applications, including order management, provisioning and billing. The operator can query any system from this portal without having to toggle among management consoles of various systems, ensuring that the order process can be managed on an end-to-end basis from a single hub that can be accessed by those who touch the process, ranging from customer service representatives to provisioning technicians to marketing managers.

Conclusion
Too often, CSPs equate managing the customer experience with managing the service. However, while service quality management is an important part of customer experience management, customer experience management extends far beyond technology solutions to encompass more strategic concepts such as brand management, touch mapping and service blueprints. Those companies that have

Too often, CSPs equate managing the customer experience with managing the service.


excelled in customer experience management—regardless of industry—have identified their value proposition and consistently promoted it through all interactions with the customer, from the time he walks into the retail store or logs onto the web site, through to the delivery of the product or service, and any follow-up support that may be necessary.

Love it or hate it, Apple has put a tremendous amount of work into creating a consistent experience for its customers that derives from its core messages of simplicity and ease of use, extending from logo to product design and packaging to retail environment. In order to succeed in the digital age, CSPs need to take a similar end-to-end approach to their businesses—or risk being the stodgy, generic PC to the edgy and innovative Apple.


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About ConceptWave
ConceptWave® is an independent software vendor (ISV) and leading provider of lifecycle management solutions that allow global multi-play communications service providers (CSPs) and operators to rapidly introduce new market offers. Our customers can immediately re-tune or change existing offers to meet competitive needs and simplify the managing of service orders found across wireline, broadband data, wireless, cable, voice, and unified networks. Our catalog-driven order fulfillment solutions enable customers around the world to introduce complex multi- product and service offers in record time, translating into increased revenues, reduced operating costs, and highly satisfied loyal end-consumers and service subscribers.

We have successfully helped our customers transform their businesses and ensure agile order fulfillment and orchestration through our award-winning Product Lifecycle Management and Order Lifecycle Management solutions. Visit us online: www.conceptwave.com.

ConceptWave® and ConceptWave Order Care® are registered trademarks of ConceptWave Software Inc.

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