There’s quite a bit in this week’s cavalcade of customer fun that relates to healthcare and queuing so it seems entirely appropriate to dust off a jazz-rock-fusion classic from my vinyl collection for this week’s photo. Meanwhile, some of the recent sagas come to a close (and some don’t) and everybody seems to want my feedback.
Approaches
Don’t get SMART, get DUMB too
It’s still, just about, the beginning of 2017 and definitely time – if you haven’t already done so – to set some objectives for the year. Set them already? Done your tax return? All set for February’s challenges? Good for you – this post might not be for you, however if you still have a nagging sense of self-doubt after all that efficiency, read on…
The joy of queuing
You can’t talk about customer service for long without queues coming to mind. There’s been a lot of coverage recently about queues in relation to the UK’s border controls fiasco at Heathrow Airport and the rather grumbling response to all this has rather missed the point – queuing is not always a bad thing and, moreover, it’s an opportunity to demonstrate great customer service.
Business innovation 3) Innovation and creativity – part 2: practicalities
Most organisations suffer from a wariness of creativity stemming from the myths that I outlined last week. As a consequence, organisations typically don’t set out in an intentional and systematic way to build and maintain their creativity – and this is a wasted opportunity.
This fear of creativity