Measuring customer satisfaction is an essential indicator for many housing associations. The Universal Adapter was utilised to excellent effect in a project with Mosscare, increasing the number of completed repair satisfaction surveys by 75%.
The Challenge
The Mosscare Housing Group (Mosscare) owns and manages 5,000 homes in Manchester, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford and its vision is to “achieve excellence in all we do”.
Carrying out 30,000 repairs every year, the housing organisation needed to gain a better insight into customer satisfaction on its repairs service.
Historically, a paper satisfaction survey form was posted out to tenants for return to the repairs team. Once received, data was manually entered onto an electronic record. Disappointingly, only 10% of surveys were ever completed and returned.
Our challenge was therefore to improve the overall process and increase the number of surveys that were completed and returned, as well as remove the need for manual data entry.
“The first weekly survey results went out and the teams certainly got some food for thought from the responses. Operations seem to have embraced the new digital process so I would mark this down as a very successful project.”
Paul Clark – ICT Project Officer, Mosscare
Our Solution
In this instance, a mobile application for repairs was already in use but it wasn’t giving Mosscare the necessary flexibility, and numerous surveys were coming back with errors.
Manifest Software Solutions integrated the functionality of the existing App with the Universal Adapter, so that all data would be instantly collected on a handheld device, with all data validated to avoid duplication. What’s more, by completing surveys via a handheld device, the repairs team could receive instant feedback and act on it.
Our Results
Ultimately, implementation of the UA has boosted business performance, without impacting on day to day operations.
- 75% increase in completed repair surveys from 10% to 85%
- ROI of £40,000 achieved
- Project delivered on time and on budget
- Significant improvement to user experience.
As well as a dramatic increase in completed surveys, return is also far quicker with surveys now being collected on a daily basis.
If a customer highlights a concern with the repair, an email alert is now immediately sent to the team, with all customer insight recorded in a PDF. This alone has seen a large increase in customer satisfaction levels.