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Adaptive Quality Management: An Evolutionary View

When your CSAT score is stuck at a once-revered 85 percent and you're being challenge to improve customer experience, what should you do? Welcome to adaptive quality management, the goal of which is to improve operational quality in order to drive higher customer satisfaction.
Date Published January 8, 2016 - Last Updated October 5, 2016

From First Call to First Conversation Resolution

Contact center metrics such as First Call Resolution (FCR) can become difficult to measure when new channels are introduced into a service model.
Date Published December 17, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016

First Call Resolution: Getting It Fixed the First Time

First call resolution (FCR) is about answering or solving the customer’s problems on the first call, as quickly and for the least cost possible.
Date Published December 8, 2015 - Last Updated May 20, 2016

Introducing Radical Incident Reduction: The 40-40-40 Program

This program reduces incident counts and resolution times and increases support staff skills for getting to root causes and eliminating the incidents they cause.
Date Published November 24, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016

2015 HDI Service Management Awards

The HDI Service Management Awards recognize excellence and honor support organizations that have generated positive, measurable results in IT service management.
Date Published November 17, 2015 - Last Updated December 1, 2017

Creating an Enterprise Service Portal

A true enterprise service portal is not restricted to IT; it is a gateway to interacting with all of an organization's service providers from a single landing page.
Date Published November 10, 2015 - Last Updated April 19, 2019

Keep Calm and #CustServ On

Explore best practices that your organization can use to effectively deliver exceptional customer service.
Date Published October 26, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016

Improving Customer Service in Technical Support: Personalization

Technical support centers must demonstrate their value. They can add value with personalization, concierge services, walk-up, excellent self-service, and more.
Date Published October 20, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016

Blend Analytics and Common Sense to Optimize Customer Service

Any service desk can hit service level metrics (SLAs and KPIs). Whether you’re an internal service desk manager or an outsourcing provider, you need to add value to improve CSAT scores.
Date Published October 8, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016

The Art of Interviewing and Hiring Tech Support

Hiring is the most important thing a manager does. But the lack of training in many IT organizations on how to hire the best tech support people is alarming.
Date Published October 1, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016