
Support is strategic. It shapes customer outcomes and sees friction patterns that signal business risk. This series shows how to translate that proximity into strategic relevance. Subscribe for new editions.
- Support Is Strategic. So Why Is It Still Stuck in Reactive Mode?This inaugural edition of Support Leadership Unfiltered introduces the structural constraints that keep support reactive despite its strategic potential—and what leaders must do to change that.
- Support in 2026: Leadership Is the ConstraintEdition 1 establishes that support’s strategic constraint is no longer execution or technology—it’s leadership and the obsolete operating models that keep support reactive.
- From Reactive Support to Strategic Relevance: A Leadership JourneyEdition 2 maps the spectrum from reactive containment to strategic relevance—and shows where most support organizations are actually operating.
- Choosing the Battles That Build Leadership CredibilityEdition 3 examines how strategic support leaders choose moments where their perspective can materially improve business outcomes—and how to know which battles to fight.
- AI’s Promise, Leadership’s TestEdition 4 examines the AI divide: some organizations will use AI to elevate support’s strategic relevance, while others will automate activity without improving outcomes.
- AI Isn’t A Threat. How You Use It Is.AI doesn’t replace support because it can do the work better. It replaces support positioned as doing work AI can do. This article examines the choice you’re making right now ...
- What is the Focus of your AI Strategy?Most AI strategies for support are focused on efficiency. This can be a problem, learn why.
- AI Use Cases for Support that Enhance Customer ValueCompanies are deploying AI in support. Some are freeing their teams for complex work focused on delivering customer outcomes. Others are deflecting more cases, cutting costs, reducing headcount.