Assess Capabilities
Choose a self-assessment to compare your capabilities to industry practices. Receive immediate recommendations to transform and optimize. Need help with an assessment? Please contact us to learn about our Guided Assessments.
Customer Success HealthHow mature is your Customer Success initiative? Are you a market leader or just getting started? Evaluate your current Customer Success practices to learn your Customer Success Health Score.
Service Contract RenewalHow effective are your service contract renewal practices? Are you leaving money on the table? Do you know why customers cancel service contracts? Take this assessment to see where your renewal practices stand and learn how to maximize service renewal performance.
Customer Success Management How effectively do you engage new customers? Do have a formal onboarding process? Do you help customers plan for success with your products? Do you monitor customer health? Take this assessment to see where your practices stand and learn how to maximize customer success management.
Customer EngagementHow effectively do you engage new customers? Do have a formal onboarding process? Do you help customers adopt and succeed with your products?
Service Delivery Are your services efficient and effective? Evaluate how your service delivery capabilities compare to industry practices.
Customer Relationship Growth (Upsell) How well do you retain customers, grow relationship value and minimize churn? Compare your growth and retention practices to industry practices.
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Adopt Best Practices
Select from the following practices areas.
Customer SuccessThe Customer Success Operating Model is a framework that defines the processes and procedures necessary to engage, retain and grow customer relationships through service excellence. The model consists of the following Success functions: Customer Engagement, Service Delivery, Customer Retention, and Relationship Growth.
Customer EngagementValue Proposition Definition, Service Portfolio Development, Sales Enablement, Onboarding, Success Planning, Setting Expectations
Service DeliveryPrevent Issues, Manage Entitlement, Be Proactive, Enable Customers, Drive Adoption, Manage and Resolve Cases
Customer Retention and Growth Sustain Relationships, Measure Satisfaction, Achieve Success, Secure Renewal Grow Relationship Value, Understand Objections
Accelerate Outcomes
ServiceXRG offers comprehensive plans to help you define and achieve tangible service outcomes quickly and cost effectively. Choose from one of the outcomes below or let us customize an outcome accelerator for you.
Engage New CustomersDefine and execute effective customer engagement processes to maximize adoption and success rates and establish a foundation for long term relationships.
Optimize Customer Success ManagementImplement and optimize effective Customer Success Management practices. Maximize product adoption and success to sustain recurring revenue streams.
Enhance Service DeliveryImplement delivery strategies that maximize efficiency and effectiveness and yield high levels of customer satisfaction. Build delivery capabilities to sustain customer relationships and meet business financial performance goals.
Increase Service Renewal RatesMaximize service renewal rates and sustain recurring revenue streams for service contracts. Mitigate reasons for contract cancelation and develop opportunities to expand relationship value.
Increase Customer RetentionMaximize customer retention by reducing factors that create churn and lead to cancellations.
Grow Relationship ValueBuild upon successful customer relationships to expand and grow relationship value.
Increase Customer SatisfactionIncrease customer satisfaction and NPS through the identification of the top issues that cause dissatisfaction and the prioritization of corrective actions.
More OutcomesClick for additional Outcomes and remember that we will be happy to work with you to customize an Outcome Accelerator Plan to meet your specific needs.
Gain Insights
View PlaybooksPlaybooks provide step-by-step guidance and essential insights into the definitions, practices and performance metrics surrounding critical Customer Success and Service activities.
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Welcome to ServiceXRG
Service Excellence Research Group (ServiceXRG) helps companies retain customers, grow revenue, and achieve cost efficiencies through service excellence. Founded in 2004, we work with the world’s leading technology companies to transform and optimize service outcomes. We offer a portfolio of in-depth research and expert coaching services to help companies pursue Service Excellence and embrace Customer Success. Learn more about ServiceXRG.
The Pursuit of Service Excellence
Service Excellence is the achievement of the maximum possible benefit from service delivery as measured by the retention and growth of customer relationship value. Service excellence is achieved by coordinated service and customer success initiatives to engage, serve, and retain customers. Service Excellence Research Group provides companies with the research, insights, and expertise to define, measure and attain Service Excellence.
Customer Success – Are you Ready?
Customer Success has profound implications for the ways that companies engage, serve, and retain customers. No matter where you are in your Customer Success journey we can help. Click on the following links to learn more:
Understand the differences between Customer Success and Support
Review the steps and milestones required to implement Customer Success
Assess your current success-focused capabilities and practicess
Explore the Customer Success Operating Model
Customer Success – Are you Ready?
Customer Success has profound implications for the ways that companies engage, serve, and retain customers. No matter where you are in your Customer Success journey we can help. Click on the following links to learn more:
Understand the differences between Customer Success and Support
Review the steps and milestones required to implement Customer Success
Assess your current success-focused capabilities and practicess
Explore the Customer Success Operating Model
Retention – Your North Star Metric
If there is one service performance indicator to steer by it is RETENTION. You can have plenty of satisfied customers but still not grow, but you can’t grow unless you retain the customers you have. How well do you retain your customers? Click on the following links to learn more:
Learn why customers don’t renew
Review the best practices for customer retention
Assess your current renewal capabilities and practices
Develop a plan to increase customer retention
Retention – Your North Star Metric
If there is one service performance indicator to steer by it is RETENTION. You can have plenty of satisfied customers but still not grow, but you can’t grow unless you retain the customers you have. How well do you retain your customers? Click on the following links to learn more:
Learn why customers don’t renew
Review the best practices for customer retention
Assess your current renewal capabilities and practices
Develop a plan to increase customer retention
Customer Engagement - The key to long term profitable relationships
The way that you engage customers is as important as how you serve them. Far too often new customers are left in the dust. Closing a new account is great but making them successful is imperative. How do you treat your new customers? Click on the following links to learn more:
Review best practices to engage customers
Learn what it takes define and manage customer success
Assess your current customer engagement capabilities and practices
Implement a customer engagement plan (Onboard, Adopt, Success)
Customer Engagement
The way that you engage customers is as important as how you serve them. Far too often new customers are left in the dust. Closing a new account is great but making them successful is imperative. How do you treat your new customers? Click on the following links to learn more:
Learn what it takes define and manage customer success
Review best practices to engage customers
Assess your current customer engagement capabilities and practices
Implement a customer engagement plan (Onboard, Adopt, Success)
Service Delivery Excellence – The driver of satisfaction and source for customer insights
Each interaction is an opportunity to learn from customers and to strengthen your relationship with them. Delivering services can be costly, but when done correctly will yield significant positive returns. Have you achieved service delivery excellence? Click on the following links to learn more:
Review the best practices for service delivery
Request a custom assessment of your service delivery capabilities
Develop an Enhanced Service Delivery plan
Service Delivery Excellence
Each interaction is an opportunity to learn from customers and to strengthen your relationship with them. Delivering services can be costly, but when done correctly will yield significant positive returns. Have you achieved service delivery excellence? Click on the following links to learn more:
Review the best practices for service delivery
Request a custom assessment of your service delivery capabilities
Develop an Enhanced Service Delivery plan
ServiceXRG – Committed to Your Success
We apply a customer success approach to our services. We work with you to understand your needs and expected outcomes; we develop a customized success plan and offer insights and expertise through workshops and coaching to help you achieve your goals. Please review our offerings and capabilities:
- Service Success Plans customized to help you define and achieve your desired outcomes.
- Assessments to identify strengths and weakness of your current capabilities with recommendations to optimize and transform.
- Proven practices and methods to define end-to-end operational excellence.
- Playbooks to guide you to success.
- Coaching to apply our expertise to help you and your team to accelerate results and minimize risk.
Contact us and let’s discuss your plan for service success. Visit our complete list of services and membership programs.
Committed to Your Success
We apply a customer success approach to our services. We work with you to understand your needs and expected outcomes; we develop a customized success plan and offer insights and expertise through workshops and coaching to help you achieve your goals. Please review our offerings and capabilities:
- Service Success Plans customized to help you define and achieve your desired outcomes.
- Assessments to identify strengths and weakness of your current capabilities with recommendations to optimize and transform.
- Proven practices and methods to define end-to-end operational excellence.
- Playbooks to guide you to success.
- Coaching to apply our expertise to help you and your team to accelerate results and minimize risk.
Contact us and let’s discuss your plan for service success. Visit our complete list of services and membership programs.
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