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7.15.26 Read Time: 8 Mins

You Don’t Know Your Customers. Your Support Model Proves It.

Most support organizations serve 80% of their customers identically — regardless of growth trajectory, renewal risk, or future potential. The Customer Topography Map reveals the four customer terrains hiding inside …

7.6.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

Most support organizations think they know their customers. They don’t.

Most support organizations think they know their customers. They don’t.

6.24.26 Read Time: 6 Mins

Where Are You Headed?

Leading support into the future takes two things most leaders never honestly assess: the agency to act and the mandate to matter. Here’s a way to find out where you …

6.17.26 Read Time: 4 Mins

Support — What Is It For?

The capability of support is not in doubt. What is missing is a definition of support’s strategic purpose.

6.11.26 Read Time: < 1

Support is the Problem

“Support.” The word itself is an obstacle. It comes with predefined perceptions for everyone: reactive, tactical, fix-what’s-broken, the place you go when something fails. The name is the cage that …

6.9.26 Read Time: 4 Mins

Support Reinvented: The Work That Replaces the Ticket Queue

Support reinvented: Reactive becomes proactive. One-at-a-time becomes at-scale. Satisfaction becomes outcomes. Activity becomes proven value.

6.3.26 Read Time: 5 Mins

Reduce, Redeploy, or Reinvent: How Support Thrives in the AI Economy

AI is making your team more efficient. It feels like a win, it feels like leverage, but efficiency isn’t the win that matters. Every hour AI frees up can go …

6.1.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

Five Questions Every Support Leader Should Be Able to Answer

There are five questions every support leader should be able to answer from data they already have. Most cannot.

5.29.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

AI: Intelligent According to Whom?

When we claim we’re delivering intelligent experiences through AI, whose judgment are we applying?

5.27.26 Read Time: 3 Mins

AI Efficiency Is a Start. Not a Strategy.

AI is not saving support. It is exposing what support is actually worth to the business — and placing the burden squarely on support leaders to determine which direction that …

5.13.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

What to Measure Instead of Deflection: The Engagement Framework

Stop measuring defection and start measuring engagement – here is how.

5.5.26 Read Time: 4 Mins

The Hidden Risk in Measuring Deflection: Why AI Makes It More Dangerous

For decades, support organizations have measured deflection as a success metric. High deflection rates meant customers were finding answers on their own. Self-service was working. Support was becoming more efficient. …

4.28.26 Read Time: 4 Mins

Stop Measuring Deflection

Stop measuring Deflection and start measuring Engagement.

4.27.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

The Five Foundations of AI-Enabled Support Success

Sustainable AI success in support is not an initiative. It is the result of intentional leadership applied consistently across five dimensions.

Read Time: < 1

From Cost Reduction to Revenue Growth — What Salesforce’s AI Journey Tells Every Support Leader

If support cannot align to growth — if it remains defined by ticket volume and cost per case — AI can do that work at lower cost. Support becomes a …

4.21.26 Read Time: 3 Mins

Support Is Productive but Inefficient

Support is inefficient. That’s not a criticism of your team or leadership—it has nothing to do with how hard people work or how fast they close cases. The inefficiency is …

4.18.26 Read Time: 2 Mins

AI “Efficiency” Layoffs: Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Revenue Risk

Companies are announcing AI-enabled layoffs justified by efficiency gains. If they can demonstrate comparable renewal rates and stable NRR in eighteen months, the efficiency claim is valid—until then, it’s cost …

4.16.26 Read Time: < 1

10 Questions Every Support Leader Should Answer

Beyond support operational metrics are the hidden treasures that describe the impact support has on the business.  To reveal support’s value to the business start by answering these questions.

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