Rethinking Utility Customer Care: Satisfying Your Always-Connected, Always-On Customers - Hardcover

Arnold, Todd W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0996136002 ISBN 13: 9780996136006

Publisher: CS Week, 2015

Synopsis

Is your customer care ready for our connected world? Ubiquitous digital communication has created a customer that's always connected, always on. Utilities are adopting digital communication to connect to the grid, the meter, and the customer. Rethinking Utility Customer Care examines the convergence of these two trends-the "smart customer" with smart energy-revealing the implications, challenges, and opportunities for utility customer service. In this provocative guide, you'll discover: · How digital connectivity is disrupting traditional utility customer service models and the creative solutions required to remain current. · Effective strategies for engaging your digitally connected customer. · The new prerequisites for service excellence in a digital world and how to achieve them. · A road map to transform your customer care and avoid irrelevancy in the competition for the customer relationship. · How to turn your CSRs into customer service "resolutionaries." Utilities have done such a great job of delivering reliable, safe, affordable, and convenient energy that they have become back-of-mind and taken for granted. The result is a practically nonexistent relationship with the customer. Today's always-connected, always-on consumers demand much more from companies. It's time to rethink utility customer care and harness the tremendous opportunities these connected technologies present to engage the new-energy consumer and create high-value relationships.

About this title

About the Author:

Todd Arnold is a utility industry veteran with over 40 years of experience. He served as senior vice president, smart grid and customer systems with Duke Energy as well as senior vice president, customer service.

Review:

"In 'Rethinking Utility Customer Care', Todd Arnold provides a very forward-looking portrayal of the customer service experience, while offering excellent insight into how utilities can exceed customer expectations that evolve as dynamically as the digital age we live in. I have already added one of his solutions to my Customer Service roadmap." -- Joe Trentacosta, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative "Todd Arnold provides us with a primer on how to rethink utility customer care and ensure we are satisfying our always-connected and always-on customers. This thought-provoking book offers insight into the rapidly changing digital world in which we are living today. I consider 'Rethinking Utility Customer Care' a must read." -- Penni McLean-Conner, Chief Customer Officer & Senior Vice President, Customer Group. Eversource Energy "Todd Arnold's book, 'Rethinking Customer Care', is a provocative must-read for the utility chief customer officer and his staff. As customers increasingly experience technologies that improve their engagement with other businesses, they come to expect from their utility not only effortless account self-service, but personalized tools to manage their comfort, environmental footprint and monthly bill. The 'table stakes' are rapidly changing." -- Mike Lowe, Associate General Manager and Chief Customer Executive, Salt River Project "Todd Arnold has done a masterful job of capturing the rapidly changing state of today's utility customer environment. 'Rethinking Utility Customer Care' is a call to action -- complete with sage advice and strategies on what the industry can do -- not only to respond, but to get in front of our dynamically changing customer needs!" -- David McKendry, Director Customer Service, Hydro Ottawa

About this edition

• Publisher: CS Week
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996136002
• ISBN 13: 9780996136006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200