Dell Technologies Realize magazine Issue 1 | Page 25

Furthermore, the application of emerging technology to customer data enables companies to honor customer loyalty. At Dell Technologies, data is king. We collect customer feedback from outlets including our Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey, 13 social listening channels, and millions of one-on-one conversations with our customers and employees in which we take the time to listen. Having access to this rich data, A strong humancoupled with the capability to take action on these insights, allows us to keep innovating and delivering the solutions, services, machine partnership will result in stronger and experiences that customers need to drive their business forward. And when our customers succeed, we succeed. “human-human” relationships as THE NEXT BATTLEGROUND companies lead with While data analytics helps organizations stay ahead of customer expectations, customer experience is grounded in the table insights through stakes. For us, this includes product quality, solutions executed a customer-first flawlessly, and services competitively priced. On top of this are approach. critical elements, such as enabling a seamless experience across multiple online properties. All of this adds up to how easy it is for the customer to do business with us. We think this notion of Ease of Doing Business will be the next battleground for companies of all sizes. Since the formation of Dell Technologies in 2016, we’ve made a number of tech investments to optimize the end-to-end experience across our seven brands, including improving our B2B online and e-commerce experience and delivering a unified support model for key solutions that span our businesses. We’ve also invested in simplifying our channel and partner engagements through tools that leverage customer data. This allows our partners and sales teams to be more proactive and predictive when serving our customers. We will continue to invest in technology to enable the ease of doing business, but we also know that technology will never replace a relationship. After all, people do business with people. That’s why “customer-first” has always been a core tenet of our Culture Code, which guides how our 140,000 employees worldwide lead, inspire, and work together to create value for customers, communities, and people. Now we’re embarking on a new learning program that promotes a customer-centric approach to problem solving by developing capabilities such as customer journey mapping and design thinking. Team members across business units will co-create experiences with our customers, allowing us to further transform the way we approach our customers and, in turn, our business. 23