Customer experience quality surpasses NPS in correlation to financial performance, customer loyalty and customer satisfaction
Customer loyalty and satisfaction drives business. For over a decade, NPS has been touted as the most important measure of loyalty and predictor of business growth, even as researchers have struggled to consistently prove the claim. Other measures of customer experience, loyalty and satisfaction have arisen that challenge the supremacy of NPS, even as hundreds of companies rely on NPS for its simplicity and promise of business growth. Measuring 1605 US-based customers of US publicly traded companies, this study has found that while NPS was positively and significantly correlated with customer loyalty, satisfaction, and financial performance, customer experience quality (CEQ) surpassed NPS in all three measures. The research also showed that CEQ was strongly correlated with NPS, suggesting that the two metrics are synergistic. The findings demonstrate that there is provable value in exploring metrics beyond NPS that companies may be missing and thereby limiting their growth and competitiveness.