The would-recommend metric that became NPS was introduced by Frederick F. Reichheld in the Harvard Business Review article 'The One Number You Need to Grow', December 2003 issue.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
not restricted
Product
not restricted
Subsystem
NPS history
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
historical
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). CSAT and NPS surveys in contact centers: source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003,
  title  = {CSAT and NPS surveys in contact centers: source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003},
  note   = {Source note contact-center-surveys-csat-nps-nps-origin-hbr-2003, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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