Operational Excellence knowledge cluster

Customer Operations, Service Delivery and Experience Execution

Designed to help customer operations leaders, service heads, CX teams, COOs, branch leaders, contact-centre leaders and business heads align operating processes, service standards and frontline decisions with the experience promised to customers.

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This cluster organises 40 practical ways to understand, apply and challenge customer operations, service delivery and experience execution.

Designed to help customer operations leaders, service heads, CX teams, COOs, branch leaders, contact-centre leaders and business heads align operating processes, service standards and frontline decisions with the experience promised to customers.

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Core guide

Customer Operations Explained

Customer Operations Explained: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Core guide

Service Delivery

Service Delivery: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Operational Customer Journey

Operational Customer Journey: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Service Standards

Service Standards: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Core guide

Failure Demand

Failure Demand: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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First Contact Resolution

First Contact Resolution: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Complaint Operations

Complaint Operations: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Service Recovery

Service Recovery: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Frontline Decision-Making

Frontline Decision-Making: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Customer Operations Governance

Customer Operations Governance: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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How-to playbook

How to Map an Operational Customer Journey

How to Map an Operational Customer Journey: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Define Service Standards

How to Define Service Standards: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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How-to playbook

How to Measure First Contact Resolution

How to Measure First Contact Resolution: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Analyse Failure Demand

How to Analyse Failure Demand: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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How-to playbook

How to Redesign Complaint Handling

How to Redesign Complaint Handling: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable…

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How-to playbook

How to Improve Service Recovery

How to Improve Service Recovery: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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How-to playbook

How to Reduce Customer Handoffs

How to Reduce Customer Handoffs: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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How-to playbook

How to Empower Frontline Decisions

How to Empower Frontline Decisions: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable…

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How-to playbook

How to Build a Service Operations Dashboard

How to Build a Service Operations Dashboard: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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How-to playbook

How to Create a Customer Operations Roadmap

How to Create a Customer Operations Roadmap: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

The Experience Promise Operations Cannot Deliver

The Experience Promise Operations Cannot Deliver: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Contact Volume Caused by Process Failure

Contact Volume Caused by Process Failure: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Complaints Treated as Individual Incidents

Complaints Treated as Individual Incidents: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Service Recovery Without Root-Cause Fixes

Service Recovery Without Root-Cause Fixes: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Too Many Customer Handoffs

Too Many Customer Handoffs: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Frontline Teams Without Decision Rights

Frontline Teams Without Decision Rights: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Service Standards That Measure Speed Only

Service Standards That Measure Speed Only: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Diagnostic and failure mode

Why CX Programmes Fail in Operations

Why CX Programmes Fail in Operations: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable…

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Comparison

Customer Experience versus Customer Operations

Customer Experience versus Customer Operations: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Comparison

First Contact Resolution versus First Response Time

First Contact Resolution versus First Response Time: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks…

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Comparison

Complaint Handling versus Service Recovery

Complaint Handling versus Service Recovery: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Comparison

Service Standard versus Service-Level Agreement

Service Standard versus Service-Level Agreement: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Checklist or practical tool

Customer Operations Diagnostic

Customer Operations Diagnostic: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Checklist or practical tool

Service Standard Template

Service Standard Template: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Checklist or practical tool

Failure Demand Tracker

Failure Demand Tracker: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Checklist or practical tool

Service Recovery Checklist

Service Recovery Checklist: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Direct-answer guide

What Is Failure Demand?

What Is Failure Demand?: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable action.

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Direct-answer guide

Who Owns the Operational Customer Journey?

Who Owns the Operational Customer Journey?: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and…

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Direct-answer guide

How Should Service Standards Be Set?

How Should Service Standards Be Set?: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks and measurable…

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Can Customer Experience Improve Without More Staff?

Can Customer Experience Improve Without More Staff?: a practical Operational Excellence guide covering process, cost, quality, capacity, automation, risks…

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