The Employee and Customer Satisfaction Effect

Keeping your employees happy might just boost your customer satisfaction scores. HDI research reveals the relationship between the two.
Date Published October 2, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Focus on Customer Experience: Combining People and Technology to Deliver for Customers

Whether your end users are internal or external, the customer experience is more important than ever. The right people and the right technology can ensure you deliver the best possible experience.
Date Published September 30, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019

Reinventing the Support Center War Room

What if you could cut 75% of the time, cost, and distraction from the problem-solving process? By taking the best of today's collaboration tools and the war room approach, you can!
Date Published September 28, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Good Customer Service and Good Security

Too often, information security is viewed as someone else’s job, and the goals of security (to protect) and customer service and support (to assist) are often at direct odds.
Date Published September 21, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Level 0.5: Automation and Support

Automation could potentially move more of the repetitive work out of Level 1 and allow tech support analysts to take on more complex tickets.
Date Published September 15, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Metrics: The Effects of Shift-Left

If your support center is taking on a Shift-Left strategy, be aware that your metrics will change, and not always in a direction that looks good.
Date Published September 12, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Focus on Self-Service: Level 0

As tech support embraces a shift-left strategy, self-service can play an important role, reducing the volume of simple, repetitive contacts and reducing costs.
Date Published August 31, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

#HDIchat Recap: Are You Looking at the Service Desk from a Customer Experience Perspective?

In last week's #HDIchat, participants considered whether they've been operating their service desks with the customer experience in mind.
Date Published August 30, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Customer Experience: Banish the Words “Call Deflection”

In the quest to lower costs, it common to talk about deflecting phone calls to less expensive tech support channels such as self-service, chat, web forms, and email.
Date Published August 25, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

Interactive Voice Response Systems and Other Inhuman Monsters

The infamous automated answering systems, known as Interactive Voice Response systems, used in all contact centers today are a source of frustration for callers.
Date Published August 24, 2016 - Last Updated February 1, 2017