With customer experience fully baked into the Comcast lifestyle and becoming Comcast’s best product, the Digital Care team at Comcast stays true to the revolution.
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Entry submitted by: Catherine Hart (Analyst)
Community: Comcast Help & Support Forums
Lithy category: Social Support Champion
Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. From our products to our people, we’re committed to delivering the best experience possible so our customers can do more and enjoy more of what they love.
Our organization’s social customer service initiatives in 2016-2017
- Reduce response times and increase in-channel resolutions
- Make customer experience our best product through the lens of Net Promoter System
- Expand early warning system function through best-in-class technology
- Cross-contaminate Community & Social data for optimal customer education
Staying true to the CX revolution
With customer experience fully baked into the Comcast lifestyle and becoming Comcast’s best product, the Digital Care team at Comcast stays true to the revolution. Last year, the company reported 22 million fewer customer service calls and volume increases of nearly 20% year-over-year in social care. To keep current with the shift in customer service inquiries to digital platforms, Digital Care committed to a staffing increase of 142% from 2015 to 2016, tripling the staff, and looks to continue expanding in 2017 with even more staffing. With representation nationwide and 24/7 bilingual operations, Comcast social care executes adapting internal and external hires into fully-functioning social care specialists in just 6 weeks utilizing the Approvals technology.
As we added Digital Care specialists to the mix, we’ve also added key business partnerships with the accessibility of Lithium's Dashboards & Expert Help for outside users. Using this technology, our customers have the most relevant information at their fingertips and our business partners have access to the fastest customer feedback they’ve ever had.
Driving the Digital Care team are the team’s use of tags. From early warning monitoring to conversation routing, tags envelop the team’s Triage and Incident Management functions. The team utilizes more than 20 tag categories and 2,000 individual tags to support resolutions, NPS, author status, content categorization, and more. The addition of the Incident Management team has allowed for Digital Care to be the classifiers and communicators of incidents to internal stakeholders and customers for more than 75 incidents and events in 2016, including the Summer Olympics.
Our results
Customer issues often translate between both social properties and the Community. More often than not, incidents or product launches that are showcased in Lithium Social Intelligence real-time view appear soon after on social media. With this knowledge, the Digital Care team has mitigated and reported several incidents before the company became aware. This leads to faster response times and resolutions and provides the ultimate customer experience. The Comcast Help & Support Forums, another function of the Digital Care team at Comcast, in and of itself provided more than 3 million deflections and a company-wide savings of at least $15 million annually between April 2016 and April 2017.
Along with the expansion, the team has been able to maintain reduced response times and increase in-channel resolutions and first contact resolutions. Using a combination of increased and smarter staffing, routing out irrelevant content, and incorporating real-time queue management analysis, the team has worked to reduce response times by more than 64% and keeping resolutions 99% in-channel. The customers are noticing too. Since implementing the NPS process within Lithium in 2015, we’ve seen year-over-year increases of our in-channel NPS results of nearly 30%. Also, negative customer experiences are converted nearly 85% of the time when engaged by the Digital Care team.
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