{"id":25469,"date":"2019-01-21T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/blog\/rockend-wins-international-service-excellence-awards\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:56:45","slug":"rockend-wins-international-service-excellence-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/blog\/rockend-wins-international-service-excellence-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockend wins at the International Service Excellence Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This blog post relates to Rockend, one of our previous brands. For more information please <\/strong><a tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"https:\/\/mrisoftware.com\/news\/mri-software-acquires-qube-global-software-leading-uk-based-provider-property-facilities-management-solutions\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/news\/mri-software-acquires-rockend-property-strata-management-software-australia-new-zealand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong> read the press release<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a testament to our commitment in\u00a0providing\u00a0our customers with great service experiences, we at Rockend have recently been awarded Contact Center of the Year (Medium) and Customer Service Executive of the Year (for Scott Downing- Chief Customer Officer) at the International Service Excellence Awards last January 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>These awards are\u00a0added feathers to our cap of customer service achievements, setting a world-class standard to customer service in the property management software space.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 7px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/csia-awards-rockend-2018.png\" alt=\"csia-awards-rockend-2018\" width=\"7\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 700px; display: block; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/csia-awards-rockend-2018.png\" alt=\"csia-awards-rockend-2018\" width=\"700\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>The Awards<\/h2>\n<p>The International Service Excellence Awards is run by the International Council of Customer Service Organizations (ICCSO), with this year\u2019s awards managed by the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA).\u00a0 \u00a0With our recognition, we join other organisations around the globe that are exemplary in providing exceptional\u00a0customer service as aligned with the International Customer Service Standard (ICSS).<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #001b49;\">A culture of providing excellent customer experience<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Providing our customers a great experience is what we live and breathe for.\u00a0 But what goes on behind the scenes?<\/p>\n<p>While strengthening relationships with real estate agencies, property, and strata management companies has long been critical for us here at Rockend, recent years have seen the whole team develop a deep focus on having the customer present in all business decisions, either literally or through data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>From launching unique Net Promoter Score metrics to leveraging a comprehensive contact centre interface, we are able to turn data into action and deliver a higher quality of service.<\/p>\n<p>Our Chief Customer Officer, Scott Downing, has instigated this cultural and operational business transformation since joining Rockend in 2017 and his\u00a0initiatives put a\u00a0\u00a0spotlight on the value of customer feedback in improving not only the customer&#8217;s experience but the business&#8217; overall health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is incredibly important for customers to feel like their voice is being heard and their feedback is presented to those who can most benefit from it,\u201d says Mr Downing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams can then actively workshop this rich customer feedback and, just as importantly, drive change.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN\">NPS as KPIs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One of Mr Downing\u2019s most important initiatives was to change how the business measures successful customer experiences by using the power of three Net Promoter\u00a0Score (NPS) metrics.<\/p>\n<p>The first is an <strong>Interaction NPS<\/strong> (iNPS) which facilitates feedback at an interaction level, like from a single phone call or a live chat. A survey is then generated from the interaction which asks the customer whether the employee was friendly, knowledgeable and empathetic, as well as if the query was resolved and whether the customer would recommend Rockend.<\/p>\n<p>The second is an<strong> Episode NPS<\/strong> (eNPS), which evaluates and provides a unique score for different \u201cepisodes\u201d in the customer lifecycle. Episodes are typically made up of a predefined set of interactions.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, Rockend considers a <strong>Strategic NPS <\/strong>(sNPS), where every single customer completes a full survey on the organisation\u2019s performance, mapping out where Rockend is and isn\u2019t doing well and providing a basis for change and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>By breaking up the customer experience and looking at the process from an end-to-end perspective, Rockend can implement cross business improvements.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN\">Turning data into action<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Rockend has also implemented a variety of data-capture systems that are integrated with customer and employee feedback-gathering technologies &#8211; a rarity in the property sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Using the Qualtrics platform, all customers and employees can give feedbacks and from there, our customer service team can use the data to make key changes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Our Customer Insights and Improvement Manager, Linda Battin explains that this unique system &#8220;allows teams to know how they responded to customer needs, not how well we adhere to a process.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only once this data is produced that it can be drawn back into the larger Qualtrics system, generating richer insights.\u00a0 These are then fed directly to our leaders across the entire business.<\/p>\n<p>With our\u00a0\u2018systems thinking\u2019 we are able to streamline\u00a0unwieldy processes and create new features that gives us an edge in customer experience, changing the game once and for all to what customer service is and can be in property software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post relates to Rockend, one of our previous brands. For more information please  read the press release.<br \/>\nAs a testament to our commitment in\u00a0providing\u00a0our customers with great service experiences, we at Rockend have recently been awarded C&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrisoftware.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}