FNN Expert Edition: CX
- Agencies target 5 common ‘life experiences’ to improve customer services in government
- State Department sees online passport renewal as key CX tool amid ‘unprecedented demand’
- Updated VA app gives homeless veterans access to service providers in minutes
- OPM plans to overhaul main website, prioritize customer experience
- Homeland Security undertakes effort to boost its staff of CX experts
Customer experience pervades every
aspect of what the government does — and
some might argue, why it exists.
What’s more, it has become profoundly
clear that everyone is a customer. There
are the obvious customers, people across
the nation. But then there are current and
former federal employees, businesses large
and small, the government’s contracting community, other agencies
and even other nations. Likely, there are more.
The point? Agencies offer services to a host of “customers,” and
they want to make each interaction — “experience,” in the current
parlance — with all of them efficient, effective and fulfilling.
As Labor Department Chief Innovation Officer Chike Aguh put it
quite succinctly: “The day someone files for employment insurance
is the worst day of their lives. … That is the wrong time to give them
a very complicated form and say, ‘Figure it out.’ ”
Seems unfathomable, right? Not really, because it’s not that difficult
to see how the government got here. Unlike a private company, a
federal agency often has no competitor for its services. That fact
has created a lag in the evolution of federal CX and digital services
— relative to what businesses and nongovernment organizations
typically provide today and what people now expect.
Agencies are on it now though. The presidential executive order
on customer experience of December 2021 targets the need to
evolve CX and points up the destructive affect that poor service
delivery has on public trust. The EO specifically identifies high
impact service providers (HISP) across government — agencies with
intense public-facing services.
To meet the expectations of the public, as well as the many other
customers agencies serve, demands a multipronged strategy that
focuses on culture, processes and technology.
Vanessa Roberts
Editor, Custom Content
Federal News Network
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