Stefan Kolle

As those who follow me know, I am quite passionate about Voice of the Customer (VOC) Programmes being set up correctly to drive action, engagement and ROI. I have given many speeches, presented at least 50 webinars in 3 languages and given advice to dozens of companies around this topic. In 2020 we also dropped a first whitepaper around this. We have now published a fully revised and extended version of our whitepaper, which you can download here.

Well-run customer experience (CX) programs can help B2B companies grow the lifetime value of accounts, save them from churning, and generate warm referrals that drive new growth.

According to a McKinsey study, successful programmes lower customer churn by 10-15%, increase sales close rates by 20-40% and lower costs to serve by up to 50%.

In addition, B2B leads generated through warm referrals have on average a 4 times higher lead-to-deal conversion rate compared to sales prospecting or advertising.

This video promotes the next Futurelab Weekly Webinar. We have already kicked off a serie of 13 weekly webinars around our CCC model - the recipe for a successful VoC implementation. 

This video focuses on the CORE of your programme - Who/When/What/How - your Data Strategy. You can register for the next webinar here or for any of the upcomming webinars in the series.

After the launch of the Futurelab Weekly Webinar last week, we now continue with the first webinar that goes more in-depth – how to start your Voice of the Customer programme.

What I am about to tell you may sound obvious – but most companies do not fully run this step at the beginning, while it is an absolute necessity. You need to establish your data-strategy.

We are proud and happy to announce the launch of the Futurelab Weekly Webinar. As we have accumulated so many insights, cases and presentations over the past 17 years of customer strategy, CX, VoC and EX consultancy, we thought it’s about time to really start sharing that content - every Tuesday at 12.30 CET, so it's a nice half hour during your lunch break.

Join me for the webinar on Monday (in German).

Companies need a holistic understanding of the returns of a CX and EX program to take the contact center off the defensive and make it futureproof. Determining a Return on Experience (ROX) helps you show the rest of the organization that you are running a value center, not a cost center.

While we are all adapting to the new (hopefully temporary) situation it is more important than ever to keep taking the pulse of your customers.

You are shifting your contact center, your opening hours, your product portfolio and all the other things you need to do to adapt – but do you know how your customers feel about it? Are you focusing your attention where they feel it should be going?

My meetings in Germany got cancelled, so I tried to contact the airline to change my booking. Chat did not work. E-mail was not offered. Call centre kept on cutting me off for hours on end. Finally, someone in their overseas office answered. It took me more than 6 hours to get help.

From Contact centre to Customer Value Centre: read our new opinion paper. As we are not at the CCW, please watch also our webinar!

Dear Reader,

A couple of months ago, we announced that Futurelab had become a partner infinit.cx, a leader in complex contact centre solutions which has a long list of successful customer experience stories in Germany. Today, we are happy to announce that we have gone further in our partnership. From now Futurelab will be an independent subsidiary of infinit.cx GmbH.