Our paper considers the importance of balancing customer-company effort for retention: every interaction must be easy so customers are more likely to return.

Capita's recent vulnerability session led by our guest speakers and market analysts explores how we can better support the expanding dimensions of customer vulnerability.

Capita’s white paper explores how focusing on empathy, kindness and sincerity will equip organisations to help their most vulnerable customers.

It doesn’t seem too long ago that the introduction of interactive voice response (IVR) received a rocky reception with many customers citing that they preferred to speak to a ‘real human’.

There can be no doubt the pandemic has altered the emotional make-up of society. Collectively, we are now much more aware of the suffering of others – and how could we not be after seeing lives turned upside down and businesses upended with no sense of rhyme or reason or equity.

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

The concept of enterprise risk management (ERM) has existed for many years, but it wasn’t until the 2008 financial crash that it gained significant prominence.

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.

Our previous articles have focused on the life and pensions workplace of the future, identifying new organisational structures, and working patterns that take account of the digital revolution we’re living through. Now we’ll turn our attention to the customer experience itself.

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.