Knowing you’re delighting your customers is the holy grail for any business.

Long tail strategy is also about corporate responsibility, the SME agenda, supply chain risk and social value.

The consumer desire for a brighter Christmas amidst continuing Covid-19 restrictions has seen a sharp rise in ‘buy now pay later’ schemes, and with furlough ending and depression rates rising, a perfect storm lies ahead for all collections teams as consumers juggle multiple payment demands.

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.

You don’t have to be involved in collections to be aware that the last 18 months have affected the financial circumstances of a huge number of people.

A complaint is a chance to turn an unhappy customer into a brand ambassador as well as an opportunity to improve your services…but only if handled correctly.

Customers may be about to become less forgiving. If complaint numbers rise, how are you going to provide a service which meets rising expectations?

The UK is on a “cautious but irreversible” route out of lockdown restrictions.

Costi Karayannis, Managing Director of Learning Services at Capita, explains how our ‘Re-imagining HR’ survey shows we’re at a pivotal moment and must fundamentally change the role of learning and development to re-skill staff in the post-pandemic world.

As digitisation and complex business problems continue to change the landscape of organisations, shared services providers need to find new ways to stay relevant and deliver what their clients and service users need, raising the bar with the creation of brilliant service experiences