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September 27, 2020

Appointment scheduling tips to improve customer experience

In this blog, we will discuss some appointment scheduling tips to improve customer experience. First of all, we have to understand why an appointment scheduling system is required and what it can do to improve the customer experience? Here are some basic features of an appointment system:

Allow full control over customer flow and queue management
Increase service time efficiency and decrease the customer wait time
Allow booking out of the business hours
Provides more flexibility, ease and access to your customers
Allow online and remote sign-ups, with notifications, reminders, etc
Provide detailed insight of the customer flow
Facility to customize the queue management with routines and expected future visits
Improve planning and management efficiency for the service agents and staff
Provides real-time status reports, regular reports, and statistical data
Customer Feedbacks, Integration with other systems, data export facility and much more

These are some of the basic features of an appointment system. Before you start adding up more features or add-ons in the appointment scheduling system you should have to understand your strengths and weaknesses. The best practice is to conduct some surveys with your service agents, and your customers, and try to understand what is necessary to improve the customer experience in the branch.

Most of the businesses heavily focus on the customer experience and their journey without considering any investment in the service delivery staff. It is very important to maintain a stress-free environment for the service agents as well. The appointment scheduling systems not only enhance customer satisfaction and the customer journey but also help reducing stress on the service delivery staff and the counter agents. This could further improve the overall efficiency and customer happiness.

Following are some of the most important things that business should consider while implementing an appointment scheduling system:

Availability on multiple platforms and mediums

Your appointment scheduling system should be available on multiple platforms and should be accessible through multiple mediums. People love to use their mobile phones as a substitute for the laptop or PC. A dedicated smartphone application for Google Play Store (Android) and Apple App Store (iOS) will be a good addition. Website portals and sign-up via SMS service are also widely used mediums.

Ease of Use (User Interface)

The appointment scheduling should be very easy and in a few steps only, let say your customer can sign-up using their batch number or some serial number which provide all necessary information about the customer to the system and they don’t have to fill in long forms each time they want to sign-up. Optimize the appointment scheduling and booking mechanisms.

Provide helpful information and the latest data

The portal should have enough information so that the customer can choose the appropriate service without any confusion or complexity. Showing current (real-time) information is vital for customer experience and it also helps to control the customer flow.

Communication is the backbone

In customer satisfaction and customer happiness, communication from an organization is always crucial. The customers love to get personalized communication from the organizations, it gives them a sense of importance and they feel like the organization cares about them.

Enable easy feedback channels

Either by online or within the branch there should be some channels to take feedback from the customers. This help to increase the trust and it also helps businesses take necessary actions to rectify issues. The feedback should be easy and simple such as a happiness meter tablet or kiosk, an online survey with just a few short questions or something which can be done in 30 to 45 seconds.

Effective Queue Management System

Once the customer is in the branch or premises, then they should be welcomed with a very efficient queue management system. The queue management system should have all the important features to maintain and enhance the customer journey through the service area. Aid your queuing system with digital signs, audio-visual announcements, and other essentials to improve the customer journey.

Check this out: Complete guide to Queue Management Systems in Dubai

Measure the KPIs

The appointment scheduling system should have a comprehensive statistical and analytical software engine. To measure key performance indicators of both the system itself and the service agents/staff. These reports could play a vital role in the strategy-making process and steps are taken further enhance customer journey in future. This will also help to improve the staff or service agents’ performance.

Check this out: How to reduce patient wait time in hospitals with virtual queuing?

Conclusion

Either you are a bank, hospital, clinic, beauty salon, public office, government office, HR department, or an organization who requires their customer to visit them in order to operate, having a high-tech appointment scheduling system and queue management system is very vital in retaining your customers. Getting new customer could be easier but retaining your existing customer, maintaining your positive brand identity is vital for your business growth.

Check this out: Why should the bank think beyond queue management?

September 24, 2020

Etisalat Academy Acquired RSI Concepts for Digital Branding

Etisalat Academy is one of the largest training facility in GCC having 1.2 million square feet large facility located in Dubai. The Etisalat Academy is the source of innovative skills and assessment programs for local, regional and multinational corporate and public sector in UAE and all across GCC. The Etisalat Academy and its partners are providing professional and innovative training services for their customers in many countries and regions all across the GCC. They are also responsible for fulfilling the needs of professionals, managers, and team members in the local market and supporting the local enterprises and business.

Recently the Etisalat Academy has decided to add new programs to their portfolios and required some new branding for that. RSI Concepts was one of the suppliers who were shortlisted for the tender and later we were being awarded due to our reputation and technical capabilities. At RSI Concepts we are providing a variety of IT services and solutions. Branding is one of our core speciality. We were given the task of bringing their new branding strategy to life.

Branding and marketing play an important role in the success or failure of a project/business. Branding is what make or break people’s perception of your organization. It is not just a few landing pages, presentations, printed media and content but it is the real essence of the modern-day marketing. In such a competitive environment having a perfect branding helps businesses establish their identity and obviously boosts into more leads. In today’s modern world “Seeing is believing” especially digital brand identity is considered to be a key to success. Modern man is way too connected to the digital world than ever before, which is why it is very important to have a good reputation in the digital arena too.

Here are the remarks of our Sales and Marketing Manager. Ms. Maheen Waheed:

“Dealing with such a big organization which is known for their quality standards and innovation leadership in the market, was not an easy task. But thanks to our skilled professionals and business analysts, we have managed to deliver as per their expectations. We have met all the requirements and proven to be able to take up with their extraordinary quality standards and sophisticated branding needs.”

At RSI Concepts the quality of our work is our top priority. This is the reason our clients prefer to do repeated business with us. That is not all, we are always hunting for the new talent and maintained a versatile human resource repository. Our clientele based upon local and regional enterprises and organizations which give us an edge over other suppliers as our business analysts are well versed with the custom and norms of the local market and always take care of the moralities, tradition, cultural customs and local need of the community. Which is why our branding and marketing solutions are very well prepared and cost-effective too.

Checkout: Why should the bank think beyond queue management?

September 20, 2020

Why should the bank think beyond queue management?

Why should the bank think beyond queue management? Banks usually don’t ask such questions, as they are pretty much satisfied with their regular queue management systems. But in reality that is not enough. People’s expectations are increasing day by day, the rapid expansion in technological applications lead to a very innovative and competitive environment in the service industry. People are expecting more day by day, and don’t hesitate to switch to another service provider if the bank failed to fulfil their expectations. The customer journey and customer experience is a far bigger challenge than customer flow management or the queue management itself was ever.

The queue management systems in banks don’t only have to provide means of managing the customer flow but it should be capable of:

Enhanced Customer Experience
Improved Customer Satisfaction and Happiness
Reduced Waiting Time
Improved Staff Efficiency
Reduce Staff Work Load

Customer happiness and customer satisfaction is the top priority in the banking sector and the services industry. It is not just reducing the wait time but during the waiting period the queue management system should provide relevant information and some engaging content to keep the customers occupied. There should be digital signage/displays with clear and short information and other instructions, maybe some adverts, some relevant information, latest offers, future plans, etc which could keep the customer occupied while they are waiting for the queue.

The QMS system should be capable of informing the customer about their queue, audio-visual aid is sufficient but there could be mobile notifications, SMS, or other soft-alerts to make sure the customer never misses their turn. These things are important for improving customer satisfaction and happiness. There could be a quick feedback mechanism too, to get customers to feedback on each counter. This also helps the bank management to rectify the issues their customers are facing.

That is not all if you want to improve the customer experience you must have to have the complete insight of the queuing system and the complete customer journey. The queue management system should be capable of providing detailed reporting and KPIs to help the bank management take decisions. Following are the basics of a queue management system reporting module:

Comprehensive daily reporting
Real-time monitoring and performance reports
Reporting should be available for individual agents, departments, branches, locations, etc
The reporting should have an overview or summary mode for the higher management
The visual graphical representation is also very helpful in reporting

The QMS for banks should have software capable of business intelligence and in-depth controls for the automation. These are some of the mandatory modules/features required to have a suitable queue management system for banks. There are so many accessories and features that can also be added in the queue management system in order to improve the performance and customer happiness. Such as we can include smartphone applications, online virtual ticketing/sign-up, real-time in-branch updates for the visitors, adjustable queue tokens, and much more. Digital signage and audio-visuals to present information, multi-lingual support, interactive kiosks, self-service kiosks, facility for disabled people or people with special needs. A lot of things can be added in the queuing system to improve the output and achieve the objectives.

Checkout: How to reduce patient wait time in hospitals with virtual queuing?

September 16, 2020

How to reduce patient wait time in hospitals with virtual queuing?

How to reduce patient wait time in hospitals with virtual queuing? Or how to provide a hustle-free patient flow management system to ensure a smooth experience while the patients and their attendants are already is a stressful situation. Obviously the ordinary queue management system is not enough as we have to manage all the resources and the most important thing is to prioritize different tasks, such as if a patient is in a critical situation he/she needs quick treatment or tests, or anything compared to others who might be better than them. There are so many different things a queue management system should be able to handle while operating in a hospital or clinic or a testing laboratory.

The reason for writing this blog is to address the most basic question “How to reduce patient wait time in hospitals?” and the simplest answer to this question is “with virtual queuing”. We will explain, how?

Our customized virtual queue management system comes with a dedicated “Patient Flow Management Module” in it. Which helps improving patient journey throughout the process. From checking-in to patient queues and appointment management system, everything can be managed and monitored through our custom-built virtual queue management system for hospitals, clinics and laboratories/test facilities.

Our virtual queue management system comes with the following basic features:

Dedicated Virtual Queuing Module
Online Queue Management System
Mobile Queuing via SMS and Smartphone Application
Online Appointment Booking Module
Real-time updates and live dashboard
Real-time Statistical Data and Analysis for the Management
Custom Reports for Facility, Location, Branch, Reception, Agent, Department, etc
Comprehensive Reports and KPIs to ensure enhanced and improved operational capabilities
Digital Signage Module
Self-service Kiosks
Disability Compliance Kiosks and Special Built Kiosks for People with Special Needs And much more.

We always encourage our customers to have a customized solution rather than the stock solution. Because in a customized solution we can evaluate the actual environment with more accuracy and can propose a solution which suits best for that particular scenario. This also increases the overall efficiency of the system with reduced patient waiting time and better service delivery.

The customized operations for each area also improves the patient waiting time with up to 40%. Such as we can have a dedicated module for the OPD and a separate module for the regular doctor appointments. This is to further optimize the service delivery mechanisms for different sectors with different operational protocols and services types.

The healthcare industry is a very delicate industry, we can prepare a plan on paper with all its perfection to reduce the unpredictability, but in reality, the case is different. Sometimes the patient does book online appointment but don’t arrive on time sometimes even don’t arrive at all, or maybe they are so late that they reached when the doctor is already examining the next patient. This is just an example of so many scenarios the hospital management staff could face during their regular workday. The system should have to be flexible, intelligent enough, and easy-to-use for the staff to handle such situations without causing any disturbance to other patient flow.

Another advantage of having a dedicated virtual queuing system is to control the number of patient in the facility. Taking things online will also make it easier to manage the number of people in the waiting area at any given time, this also prevents crowd and let hospitals, clinics and other such facilities to maintain social distancing. The smartphone applications, website landing pages, digital signage and other such accessories of our linear queue management system for hospitals and clinics will help to promote the instructions and informatics media for the patients and their attendants.

Another advantage of our virtual queue management system is its automation and the intelligent software engine, which has proven to be very efficient in various environments and special scenarios. This also reduces the pressure from the management and the staff as well as ensure a smooth queue management process. In some cases, the visitors’ waiting time has been effectively optimized to up to 40% with the happiness increased to around 30% in the first 30 days of the installation. The system is very comprehensive and the control modules are well crafted to optimize these figures further after analysis of the inputs of the system.

Our most customers are also benefiting from our in-built customer feedback and happiness meter module which can be provided on-demand bases. The module in itself is a comprehensive survey and visitors’ happiness meter with elaborated reporting modules and facility to fetch data either by automatically or by various input options.

The barcode and QR code option along with multiple other hardware accessories we can further optimize the system for automation and fast service delivery time. There is a variety of very useful hardware and software accessories which can be introduced in the virtual queue management system to make it more effective in improving patient journey and wait time optimization.

Our virtual queuing queue management system is well prepared after incorporating a lot of feedback from our customers and the experiences we have gained in the past decade. This is another reason, we suggest a customized-built solution of the queue management system for hospitals, clinics and test facilities. If you have any suggestion please contact us via the below comment box or if you have an enquiry you can contact us through our Contact US page.

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