The second year of the pandemic has seen more people in the UK slide further into debt and organisations need to recalibrate their response through empathetic collections.

Treating customers with empathy has been an increasingly important area of focus within the customer experience industry.

As corporate customers are presented with more choice, telecommunication providers (telcos) need to look for opportunities to present themselves as strategic partners for business critical solutions, beyond the standard offering of connectivity.

How does customer experience need to change, to acquire and retain new customers and ensure a profitable road to recovery?

You have a problem. Someone else has been talking to your customer. The likes of Amazon, Apple, Nordstorm – and the other gods of customer service have been educating your customer in what excellent looks and feels like.

Customer loyalty is the holy grail of brand. Less than a decade ago, consumers told marketing research company IPSOS MORI that they trusted certain household brands (Heinz, John Lewis, Walmart) more than the Government.

A popular online brokerage prided itself on building a customer experience that made trading stocks as easy as swiping right or left to purchase a book online.

There have been enormous advances in the scale and availability of data, which is essential for machine learning.

The Coronavirus pandemic is posing organisational challenges to many financial services providers and their customer service efforts – there’s no doubt about that

Alan Linter, Capita’s Innovation Director, explains why agility and adaptability aren’t nice-to-haves but prerequisites for success – and are easier to achieve than you may think.