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New! Quarterly Benchmarking of Key Customer Service Measures

Quarterly Benchmarking Overview

First Quartile Consulting is now offering benchmarking of key Customer Service measures on a quarterly basis. We're inviting any and all electric and gas utilities to join our community and compare and track your performance against your peers on 12 measures.

Why benchmark quarterly?
  • Get comparisons to other top utilities quarterly. You no longer have to wait to get pertinent performance metrics and comparisons!
  • Receive information in a timely fashion and use it to make changes to practices or staffing.
  • Watch trends in performance, especially against your peers, to head-off any problems that might be arising.
Measures
We'll be tracking these standardized measures quarterly:
  • Call Center
    • Service Level (Percent of calls answered in 30 seconds)
    • Average speed of answer
  • Field Service
    • Percent of field orders completed
    • Disconnects per customers over 60 past due
  • Meter Reading
    • Meter reading errors
    • Bills estimated due to a missed read
  • Billing & Payment
    • % of bills delivered electronically
    • % of payments received electronically
    • Bill accuracy
  • Credit & Collections
    • Net write-offs as a % of revenue
    • Percent of customers over 60 past due
  • Revenue Protection
    • Revenue recovered as a % of spending on R.P.
Schedule of Events
Regular due dates 30 days following end of quarter
Reports issued 45 days following end of quarter

Pricing
Non-community members                  $4,950 (includes 4 Qtrs)
Community members**                     included in regular fee
** Join our 2011 benchmarking community (membership is $17,500) and receive the quarterly benchmarking free.
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