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Customer Effort Score (CES)

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Matthew Dixon, Karen Freeman & Nick TomanStop Trying to Delight Your Customers, HBR 2010

Loyalty in service is won by reducing effort, not by delight — measuring how hard customers work to resolve issues predicts loyalty better than satisfaction.

Dixon & colleaguesThe Effortless Experience, 2013

Mitigate effort across channels: next-issue avoidance, experience engineering and empowered frontline judgment beat heroic service theatre.

The EclipseFrontiers® LensDelight is optional. Ease is mandatory.
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