2FE214 : Management Control System : Internet-Server Infrastructure

Second, the customers expect great features. The overall experience is not only composed of the design. The customers thus have the expectation of having more features from their inter-server company. They want their internet-server firms to provide cool and automated features in the right order, hence creating an easy and simple journey for the customer. This should be complemented by being offered a great and proactive support. The customers do not desire to have features that are difficult to use but want features that are less time consuming to use.

Lastly, the customers expect to have everything they want to be offered to them as soon as possible. They want to have services that are reliable. Reliable service is the most essential thing that clients want when choosing an internet-server company. They do not expect to deal with downtime, slow loading internet, and service issues. Rather, the customers expect that everything works as advertised, if not better. Internet-server firms should thus make sure that their services are reliable. These days, the price is not the most important thing but the reliability of the service. Thus, they are willing to incur an extra coin to have reliable services.

Part B

To retain its goal of “focus on the customer”, the company needs to take two specific actions as discussed: first, the company should focus on engaging its customers based on where they are in the customer lifecycle. Part of the firm’s specialized and targeting technology should also include connecting with every customer directly. The company should craft an experience by driving conversations depending on every customer’s position in the consumer lifecycle process. The customers should be made to feel special and important to the company by customizing their experience in a manner that makes sense for where they are in their journey as the company’s customer. For instance, a server should not send automated communications to all its customers, but rather, they should be segmented based on a timeline or actions.

Second, the company should make sure that it is constantly speaking to its customers. The firm should use context to include and draw into their customers. It should make sure that it has a “you” mentality when writing to the customers rather than using a “we” mentality. The firm should thus talk to its customers and include them. Crafting emails that have subject lines and blog post titles that use the word “you” grabs the customer’s attention and is all-inclusive. Apart from being inclusive to its customers, the company should always work with them and always keep in mind how it is expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain a current customer. Thus, the company should focus on instilling excellent customer service policies across all the company’s departments. This thus makes sure that an interaction with the company’s representative will be a positive one.

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