“All things considered, the state of federal customer experience is looking better this year.”
“Using his organization’s in-house CX Index of quality and customer loyalty, Rick Parrish, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, said federal agencies earned a new average high score in 2020 after three years of statistically little change. The National Park Service, Medicaid and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had their best-ever scores this year, while the IRS was back on par with its high score and the Bureau of Consular Affairs trailed closely behind its best score. And in total 14 out of 15 agencies measured had scores at least as good as before 2020.”
“But the federal government is still weak and uneven compared to private industry, he cautioned.”
“’For the last several years, pretty much all of the attention that federal agencies and their partners have been giving to CX has been around digital CX. And despite that, digital still lags,’ he said at ACT-IAC’s CX Summit 2020 this week…”
“Barbara Morton, deputy chief veterans experience officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said veterans had expectations for personal safety when coming to Veterans Health Administration medical centers. For that, VA accelerated its ongoing effort to sift call center messages through its tier system and get COVID-19-related questions to the right place.”
“’One of the first things that Veterans Health Administration came to us during the height of the pandemic and asked for was ‘what are veterans going to need to know or see to feel safe to come into a medical center if they have to be in person?’’ she said.”
“The pandemic also affected how VA collected customer and employee feedback. The methodology, using a human-centered design and real-time customer experience feedback, was already several years in the making, Morton said.”
“Part of improving CX means giving customers a clear course of action or next steps to take for their problem to get solved or their needs met…” Read the full article here.
Source: Agencies improving in CX but need to worry less about digital – more about human design – By Amelia Brust, November 20, 2020. Federal News Network.
