Customer experience:
Utilities

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Why CX in utilities matter

The utilities sector sits at a crossroads.  

On the one hand, it has global targets to achieve net zero by 2050, but on the other hand, it has everyday consumers who are interested in saving money, often at the expense of net zero.  

The utilities sector is growing at a rapid pace and is seeing an increasing demand for digital transformation, personalisation, improved communication through a seamless omnichannel experience, smart technology, and more transparency around billing. These trends are set to continue as the green transition takes hold and we see a surge towards decarbonisation, local energy systems that give customers greater autonomy over their energy production and use, and the growing importance of sustainability and the circular economy.  

  • Changing customer expectations as the network transitions from legacy systems to digital 
  • Moving away from a ‘one size fits all’ model of services to a personalised, customer-centric approach 
  • Poor communication 
    Unnecessarily complex billing and delayed payments 
  • Regulatory constraints hampering CX 
  • Customers’ growing concern with ESG and sustainability 
  • Managing service interruptions and crisis management 
    Achieving net zero in a cost of living crisis 

Our unique offering to optimising CX across utilities

Using quantitative research techniques, we can segment the population to understand their different energy consumption patterns, attitudes towards innovation in the utilities sector, track technology adoption, and different service usage patterns. This will help you improve CX, identify gaps in the market to target, increase operational efficiency, and himprove customer retention through targeted messaging campaigns.  

  • Quantitative segmentation
  • Qualitative interviews/focus groups
  • Journey mapping
  • Ecosystem charting
  • Call centre analysis

Through our range of qualitative techniques such as interviewing, focus groups, digital ethnography, contextual inquiry, and diary studies, we understand how consumers values, and perceptions influence their view of utility products and services. This will uncover common pattens and themes and the emotion that people attach to their values, helping you improve your CX.

  • Qualitative interviews/focus groups
  • Digital ethnography
  • Contextual inquiry
  • Diary studies

CSAT and NPS are powerful ways to understand how strong your brand is. Using our in-house quantitative expertise, we can develop appropriate CSAT and NPS that we can track over time. We will also add further context using narrative analysis so that we can help you understand why, or not, your customers engage with your messaging, products, or services.  

  • Quantitative surveys
  • Call listening and call centre analysis
  • Desk research
  • Secondary research

Through techniques such as nudging, framing, loss aversion and incentives, opt in/opt out strategies, and feedback loops, we can influence consumer behaviour and improve customer engagement, energy consumption, and decision-making. This will help you shape customer behaviour, promoting energy efficiency, improving customer service, and encourage the adoption of sustainable practices.  

  • Quantitative UX
  • Conjoint analysis
  • Observations
  • Quantitative surveys

Need help with something else?

We offer a range of qualitative and quantitative research expertise and can be flexible to meet your specific project needs.  

Why work with ExperienceLab?

We have more than 20 years’ experience in delivering PX for our aviation clients. With a clear service offering, supported by a 40-strong team of researchers, designers, and UXers, we can help you better understand your how to deliver seamless PX experience for all types of passengers. 

This is more than being able to plan, pivot, or pause. Agile methodology is used across the UK Government and is a guiding set of principles that will enable you to fail forward in small, incremental steps from alpha testing, through to live roll out of products and services.  

We work with clients for years to develop their passenger CX. Whether we ‘walk behind’ (to support), ‘walk alongside’ (working with) or ‘walk in front of’ (leading), we adopt the necessary position to support your organisation’s journey into future proofing your CX. 

Together, we can do more, for more people.
For more information, contact: info@experience-lab.co.uk
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