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Support Case Resolution: Are You Missing These 9 Best Practices?
From case open to closure, Support case management and resolution processes must be efficient and effective. Yet case management is the most costly and time-consuming Support process and remains labor-intensive and largely sub-optimized. Improve your processes—and customer value metrics—with these research-based best practices.
Is It Time to Modernize Your Service Portfolio?
Modern, well-defined post-sales service portfolios that combine elements of Customer Support and Customer Success can significantly increase your ability to help customers use and apply products; reduce churn; and expand revenue growth. This article will help you to determine the type of post sales service portfolio you need.
2021 Support Demand Forecast
As we start the new year it is important to understand how demand for support will change. The overall IT industry is forecast to grow which will likely lead to increases in support demand. Change in support demand for individual companies will be influenced less by macro-IT spending trends and more by company-specific initiatives to drive new sales and retain existing customers. This article suggests how support demand may change in the years ahead and introduces the factors that will result in changes to demand with recommendations about how to prepare to meet customer needs.
The State of Customer Support 2021
One of the most profound changes to the technology services industry is the clear shift away from selling perpetual product ownership toward a concerted effort to drive customers to subscription-based relationships. As we enter the new year the strategic role of Support must be realigned with overall corporate strategies focused on creating enhanced customer experiences, driving adoption, and maximizing customer retention. This article introduces key observations about how Support is transforming and offers recommendations about support imperatives for the year ahead.
Top Service Challenges for 2021
Welcome to 2021! What do you consider to be the top challenges for your service organization in the year ahead? Hiring, training and retaining staff? Transitioning to a subscription model? Implementing new service technologies? Redefining your service portfolio? Adopting success practices? Satisfying and retaining customers? Expanding revenue?
Beyond NPS: Eight Metrics for Support and Success
High Net Promoter Scores as the desired outcome of Support and Customer Success interactions, while positive, is not enough because they it does not connect service delivery excellence with tangible business outcomes.
How to Measure Net Recurring Revenue
Net Recurring Revenue is a comprehensive indicator that reveals the extent to which you are retaining, expanding and growing customer relationship value. Examining the specific underlying elements that contribute to the calculation of Net Recurring Revenue provides the necessary insights to identify the root causes of churn, attrition and contraction. In addition, examining the reasons for revenue growth presents opportunities to embrace and expand practices that encourage expansion of relationship value.
Success Marketing and Portfolio Management
Technology service programs are evolving to offer new value and benefits such as use and adoption assistance and resources to help attain successful outcomes. As technology service programs change service marketing must evolve beyond selling the initial service engagement and focus on sustaining and growing relationship value.
Scaling Support Delivery Through Digital Transformation
Scaling Support Delivery requires the digital transformation of support and an increased use of digital technologies to improve and extend core support processes and enable new service capabilities. Digital transformation includes human-assisted, self-assisted and fully automated support transactions. This article defines and introduces key characteristics of the digital transformation to scale support delivery.
Essential Customer Success Activities
Customer Success is a series of interrelated activities performed throughout the customer relationship lifecycle. This article identifies and defines critical success activities.
Customer Success – Why Services Should Lead
The industry is buzzing with talk of customer success, what does it mean for Services? Service organizations are in a unique position to drive customer success initiatives. Who better than Services to understand the challenges customers face in using products and the gratitude that can be earned by helping them. It is time for Services to take a leadership role in driving the principles of customer success across the company.
The Tangible Impact of CX and Customer Success
A well-defined CX strategy combined with an effective Customer Success (CS) operating model can yield significant and tangible benefits including retention and expansion of existing relationships and the strengthening of your product and service reputation.