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Customer Experience & Operational Excellence Flashcards

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  1. A regional telecom measures its Customer Effort Score (CES). Which scenario would MOST likely increase CES (worse score)?

    Answer: Requiring customers to repeat account information to multiple agents

    Forcing customers to repeat information across agents creates unnecessary friction, directly increasing perceived effort and worsening CES.

  2. In telecom operations, what does 'capacity planning' primarily aim to prevent?

    Answer: Network congestion and service degradation during peak demand

    Capacity planning ensures network infrastructure can handle peak traffic loads, preventing congestion that degrades customer experience.

  3. A CTE executive wants to benchmark operational excellence. Which of the following is a leading indicator rather than a lagging indicator?

    Answer: Number of open trouble tickets aging beyond SLA

    Aging open tickets signal future SLA breaches and customer dissatisfaction before they appear in lagging metrics like churn or NPS.

  4. Which contact channel typically achieves the highest First Contact Resolution (FCR) rate in telecom customer service?

    Answer: Live chat with integrated CRM access

    Live chat combined with CRM access gives agents real-time account data to resolve issues during the interaction without callbacks or transfers.

  5. An operator experiences repeated incidents in the same network node. Which ITIL process should be engaged to prevent recurrence?

    Answer: Problem Management

    Problem Management investigates the root cause of recurring incidents to eliminate the underlying fault, preventing future occurrences.

  6. What is the primary benefit of implementing an omnichannel customer service strategy in telecom?

    Answer: Providing seamless context continuity as customers switch between service channels

    Omnichannel strategy ensures customer history and context persist across channels, eliminating the need to repeat information and improving satisfaction.

  7. A telecom's operational excellence initiative targets 'Zero Defect' service delivery. Which quality methodology specifically focuses on reducing process variation to near-zero defects?

    Answer: Six Sigma

    Six Sigma uses statistical tools to reduce process variation and achieve defect rates of fewer than 3.4 defects per million opportunities.