In 2012, Client Savvy’s Client Feedback Tool began to implement the Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey as an option in our client’s General Satisfaction feedback requests. Since then, clients with an average year-over-year NPS of greater than 65 have surpassed the average NPS for professional services firms of 58(according to Forbes). Here is a quick look […]
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Voice of Client (VoC) Feedback
Surprised when your clients leave? Give them voice and you’ll never be surprised again. “We don’t need a Voice of Client (VoC) Feedback program at our firm. Our project managers talk to our clients all the time.” This was what Bill, the CEO of a mid-sized engineering firm told me about nine months ago. Recently, […]
Is rapid growth stressing your team?
It doesn’t have to. I recently had dinner with a client while at an industry event. He’s the young leader of a regional office for a larger firm. He shared his story: “Six hundred percent growth in just a couple years. Most of my peers would envy what we’ve done. I’m not sure my staff […]
Go beyond the numbers using linguistic analysis
From time to time, Client Savvy selects a client, takes a chunk of their recent data and conducts a linguistic analysis to give them deeper insight into what their clients are saying. We believe that as important as numerical analysis is to understanding client perceptions, linguistic analysis is useful because it focuses on more of […]
Feedback Quadrant – The missing axis of information
If you manage a professional services firm you have most likely seen numerous reports, charts, and other data measuring the financial performance of your projects. You have surely seen metrics of profitability, revenue, aged accounts, and more. These are usually mapped across an axis of time (monthly revenue, for example). However, none of these reports […]
Overestimating Client Expectations Costs Money
Why don’t clients to tell us exactly what they need? How can we deliver to their expectations without that information? What is all this guess work doing to our bottom line? You may be asking yourself these questions, and if you’re not, you should be. Case Study Recently, a 400-person construction firm sent a baseline […]