ViewPoint welcomes guest blogger Richard Quarterman back with the next installment in the Customer Service blog series :

Through my years working on customer service strategy, I came across several  attempts to create a model for customer service delivery, from reputable organisations as varied as the Said Business School in Oxford, the Institute of Customer Service,  and of course the work we did ourselves in Waitrose.  One feature I started to notice was a juxtaposition of words like ‘tangible’ and ‘intangible’, ‘external’ and ‘internal’, ‘process’ and ‘culture’, and I started to gather these thoughts together into a juxtaposition of my own – ‘functional’ vs ‘emotional ‘. Almost all of these models could have a line drawn down the middle, and have these two labels applied to either side.