Tag Archives: customer support
What Trends Will Impact the Future of Customer Service?
I was recently asked this question during an interview with Jason Redlus, managing member and founder of the Argyle Executive Forum. We had a nice discussion about customer service organizations and the way they manage their information, knowledge, and people. Our conversation around the future of customer service touched on so many different, salient points [...]
Conversation with SunGard K-12 Education VP of Customer Support Operations
SunGard, with annual revenues of about $4.5 billion, is the largest privately held software and services company; it serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, SunGard’s K-12 Education segment is a category- leader and serves more than 8 million students. I recently met with our customer Keith Gingrich, who leads customer support operations [...]
The Customer Interaction Hub Goes Prime Time
Dreamers dream, analysts analyze and predict, and technology wizards build solutions for tough problems. We’ve just seen an instance of pure serendipity with a well-respected analyst’s prediction and the vision and execution of a group of technology wizards: the Customer Interaction Hub, or, in our words, the Insight Console. One of the reasons we decided [...]
Poor Customer Service + Amazing Technology Still Equals Poor Customer Service
I watched a news clip from the Today Show last week about Boeing delivering their new Dreamliner 787 to Japan’s ANA airlines. What a beautiful machine, developed over the course of several years (3 years late to be exact) with 100’s of millions of dollars invested. The new features of the plane are all intended [...]
Knowledge Insight Means Big Money in Customer Service
As a rule of thumb in customer service, financial models show that any ticket not resolved quickly – due to lack of insight – will see its cost roughly triple. When you factor in research time to gain insight, contact and context re-establishment time, having to bring other people into the mix to resolve a [...]
In Customer Service, the Knowledge Base is One Piece of the Knowledge Insight Equation
…but customer service economics suggest that it might not be the most important one. In my last blog post on this topic, I went back to some fundamentals that drive a positive customer service experience: customers and agents are seeking efficient real-time insight into the right knowledge to understand and resolve every customer issue, every [...]
Embrace the Social Media Tsunami for Customer Service Success
Today’s support executives are awash in an ocean of data. The Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) members receive, on average, over 51,000 support incidents a month, across phone, email, Web chat, and online incidents, each filled with critical information about products and services. CRM, incident management, and telephony systems track hundreds of metrics—the TSIA Support [...]
The Great Divide: Customer Expectations vs. Customer Service Delivery
Today’s consumers, whether B2B or B2C, are much more informed than ever before about the products and services they are buying. This newly found awareness based on product information, industry and peer reviews, and multiple social channels, has given consumers this sense of trust that if others “like me” purchased or bought this product, and [...]
Exclusive Roundtable & Reception with Senior Execs and CRM Magazine Editor Unveils New Technology to Improve Customer Service Operations
As a customer service and support executive, do you struggle to provide a world-class customer experience? Chances are the answer is yes. It’s no wonder with expanding customer interaction channels, rising customer expectations, and an explosion in both the amount and complexity of data B2B customer service organizations face. Customer information has become unmanageable and [...]
Customers and Customer Service Teams Are Not Asking for Knowledge Management; They’re Asking for Knowledge Insight
…and companies focused on delivering Knowledge Insight get much greater return. I recently spoke with 1to1 Magazine editor Ginger Conlon about the importance of actionable insight within customer service departments and provided a few examples of how this helps deliver considerable ROI. Injecting actionable insight into the process of resolving customer issues is a goal [...]