Understanding Service as Experience
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The document discusses how customer experience has become a key competitive advantage in the modern economy, emphasizing that emotional responses significantly influence customer loyalty. It outlines the distinction between experiences, services, and goods, and highlights the importance of understanding and integrating customer emotions throughout various touchpoints. Additionally, the document underscores the need for businesses to create enjoyable and intuitive experiences to enhance customer satisfaction and retention.
Understanding Service as Experience
- 1. Session 4: Service as an Experience
- 2. New Business Landscape 1. Intense competition 2. Customers have too many choices 3. Customers are relatively immune to marketing communications 4. Internet is the terrorist weapon 5. Only Very Satisfied customers are Loyal!
- 4. The Progression of Economic Value Differentiated Stage Experiences Value-added Differentiation Competitive Position Deliver Services Make Goods Relevant to Needs of Customers “as goods” Growing and feeding Undifferentiated Market Irrelevant to Pricing Premium
- 5. 1. Commodities Supply chain optimization 36 bahts per kg
- 6. 2. Goods Quality 1200 baths per kg
- 7. 4800 baths per kg 3. Services Consistency
- 8. 9800 baths per kg 4.Experiences Orchestration
- 9. Customer Experience is the NEW source of competitive advantag
- 10. Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods Tom Peters
- 11. Experiential Marketing Vs. Service Experience
- 12. Goods that are consumed! Short-single Sensory R&D +Factory Marketing + Engineers High control on Customer Experience
- 13. Goods that are used! Single-influenced by learning process Sensory + users experience R&D +Factory Marketing + engineers + designers High / medium
- 14. Services as Experience Many (blocks of experiences), last longer Sensory + users experience + social experience Not in a factory but in a branch, store, at home… Collaborative work (all business functions involved)
- 15. The customer experience champions?
- 22. Dell and Microsoft are trying very hard…
- 23. The CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE Is how do customers perceive their INTERACTIONS with a COMPANY
- 24. Experience Key Drivers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Service Product Processes People Technology Environment Mkg Communications
- 25. The Marketing Mix is Dead
- 26. The Meaning of Experience An event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone. Oxford Dictionary
- 27. Cannot Not have an Experience!
- 28. Framework to Understand Customer Experience Experience as a story Experience Narrative Cognition (Stop thinking about The experience is formalized in the user’s head) (require to think about what we are doing) Sub-consciousness (set of activities as routines) Source: J Forlizzi & S Ford 2000 Meaning Storytelling (Meanings are created by story telling. This is the subjective aspects of an experience Making a personal story)
- 29. What Experience (as a verb) means?
- 32. To talk about experience as a story
- 33. Experience is personal, felt only by the person who has the experience!
- 34. Why to focus on Experience? It’s the only source of emotions
- 35. Differences between advertising & services experience emotional responses (Cheedar cheese ads vs M Douglas Falling Down movie)
- 38. 70% of Customer Loyalty is Emotional! Bill Bernback. DDB Founder
- 39. Emotional bond are difficult to build and easy to break!
- 40. How emotions are evoked during service interaction
- 41. The Emotion Process 1. Emotions have an object...the experience 2. Emotions arise from highly positive or strongly negative appraisal 3. Emotions are associate with automatic physiological activity experienced as feelings. No feelings no emotions… 4. Emotions give rise to a tendency to action 5. Emotions express themselves in involuntary facial display and physiological expression like body posture
- 42. Emotion is always the result of an event that is relevant to the consumer
- 43. How customers evaluate an experience?
- 44. How customers evaluate a service experience Objectives Attributes Key actions Measurements Integrate pleasures that resonate Thinking about your recent interactions with this firm, how enjoyable were the interactions? Make it fun Enjoyable Make it intuitive. Quick & easy Listen & Act Easy to use (usability) Meets the needs (usability) Reduce customers efforts during interactions Deliver what customer needs How much effort do you personally have to put forth to handle your request Thinking about your recent interactions with this firm, how effective were they at meeting your needs?
- 45. Wireless Post-paid Service Providers in Thailand Correlation between C. Exp and attributes Correlation between C. Ex and C. Loyalty Useful Likelihood to recommend Easy Reluctance to switch Enjoyable Willingness to buy more
- 47. Pleasure
- 50. Psycho-pleasures
- 51. The Flow. A Virtual Pleasure
- 54. Socio-pleasures
- 55. The World’s First Airline Social Seating System Flight mood. Business talk. Easy Chat. Relax.Work
- 56. Displeasure
- 58. Pleasures tend to quickly fall off. Pains usually stick in our brain
- 59. A feeling of control or submissiveness
- 60. How does emotion affects customers? It depends of its intensity (relevance of the event) and customer control
- 62. Emotions strengthen or destroy customers relationships with a brand
- 63. Type of Customer Experiences Pains Negative Rejection Terrorists Neutral Routine Commodity Ready to leave Pleasures Positive WOW Promoters
- 64. Creating a Customer Experience Centric Culture How could we listen to customers and deliver what they want ? What are touch points relevant for customers? Could we reduce customer efforts? Could we remove all pains? What pleasures to integrate into a company touch-points? What these touch-points should evoke for the brand?
- 65. Managers must understand how their decisions affect customer’ Emotions!
- 66. 5 Things to remember about Customer Experience? 1. An emotional response 2. Across multiple touch points 3. Are perceived distinctly by different individuals 4. A combination of routine, pains and pleasures…. 5. Drive customer retention and profitability more than satisfaction!
- 67. Thank You