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Objective quality and customer satisfaction. BEST CIG Berlin 2007-10-02. The CIG. Participants: Oslo Sporveier Helsinki City Transport Stockholm Transport SAMOT research center, Karlstad. Questions in the CIG. How is PT satisfaction related to actual PT quality?
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Objective quality and customer satisfaction BEST CIG Berlin 2007-10-02
The CIG • Participants: • Oslo Sporveier • Helsinki City Transport • Stockholm Transport • SAMOT research center, Karlstad
Questions in the CIG • How is PT satisfaction related to actual PT quality? • What do people judge when they judge satisfaction? • What else than objective quality? • And how do they do it? • Implications for how to collect, interpret and use customer data
Activities in the CIG • After the kick-off in Copenhagen • Meetings in Helsinki and Oslo • Discussion of practices, measurement systems and results (see BEST web page) • Experiences, problems and solutions • Begun work with a CIG report
Objective + a quality, current + c journey Customer The customer's perception of journey + satisfaction, b quality relative to + e – expectations d + +/ – Customer journey g f quality expectations Customer satisfaction, previous journeys "External noise" A summary complex picture of public transport satisfaction
Examples of insights and conclusions so far • Impact of expectations • History/previous experience • Media/reputation • Methods of data collection and analysis • Customer surveys • Customer complaints • How to interpret the result • And how to use them
Oslo – What is behind the satisfaction data • Interview follow-up of onboard survey of journey satisfaction • The scale • In general: 1-2 are used when the respondent is dissatisfied, 3-5 is used when the customer is satisfied. • The responses: not only performance • Previous experience • Expectations
Count. • Previous experiences influences • This influences the answers adversely, not positively. • Examples: • Punctuality: "The tram was on time, I could have given a top score. Still, in the back of my mind were all the delays lately, so I gave a poorer score." • Cleanliness: "In general, the metro is always dirty, people are spitting and putting their feet on the seat. Giving a top score is impossible".
Helsinki – Quality and compalints • Customer complaints and satisfaction • Computerized system for analysing customer complaints • Content analysis/conceptual mapping • Quantifications and linkage to satisfaction measures • Complaint data reveals the causes of (dis-)satisfaction • Immediate reaction of service problems
Discussion issues • Satisfaction in times of change • Internal/external changes • Positive/negative changes • Why satisfaction measures? • Quality control • Follow up of operators/incentives • Effects of improvements • Input to strategic decisions
Discussion issues (count) • Methodological aspects • Data sources • Instruments • Scales • Samples • Additional forces • Affective dimensions • Impact of culture • Media/reputation
Customer satisfaction ”Delights” (attractors) High Traditional one-dimensional attributes Objective quality High Low ”Must be” (hygene factors) Low The Kano-model of quality attributes