Top Down and Bottom Up: Performance Metrics That Count

RedSeal Networks provides proactive enterprise security management solutions that continually assess and fortify organizations’ cyberdefenses while automating compliance. Its engineers provide global, round-the-clock support, troubleshooting any obstacles to the analysis and improvement of...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Innovation: The Changing Role of the CIO

For UBM Tech, HDI’s parent company and a global live media and B2B communications, marketing services, and data provider, innovation is one of the four underlying corporate values leading the company down the path to be the best—and biggest—event business in the world. UBM Tech’s David Michael...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Go Where Your Customers Are: The Learning Commons

According to a MetricNet study, 84 percent of end users base their entire perception of IT on the day-to-day interactions they have with technical support. A related finding in recent HDI research on inbound contact channels shows that the channel with the highest customer satisfaction—by far—is...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Customer Experience: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Until fairly recently, many internal support centers have been “the only game in town.” While they occasionally measured customer satisfaction, these support centers didn’t have to worry much about competition, and neither did IT. Now, with the availability of the cloud, the proliferation of...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

CEM: The Road to Customer Satisfaction

Customer experience management (CEM) is a strategy that focuses the business on managing all interactions with a customer throughout his or her entire experience with a product or service. The ideal customer experience is one in which the business communicates its vision, distinguishes its...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

The Benefits of Self-Service and Service Desk Automation

While the total number of incidents/service requests, the potential impact of restricted access, and ease of automation will all vary by service, type of support, company, industry, etc., automation is subject to the greatest variability. Executing on a vision is certainly easier said than done,...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

At the Buzzer: Think About Your Service Desk Differently, Get Winning Results

It’s no secret that customers really want just two things from their interactions with the service desk: speed and accuracy. They want someone to answer the phone quickly, someone who can help them with their problems, and someone who can provide solutions that are correct and helpful. So, if...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

How Can Support Centers Sound More Welcoming?

Support center analysts have a tough job. Maybe a customer (whether internal or external) has just received a new product and can’t understand the installation directions. Maybe the customer’s network connection is not working properly and it’s just one week over the computer’s warranty. Or...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Self-Assist Made Easy: Five Simple Ingredients

A self-assist solution is one in which a person doesn’t directly rely on any other person to resolve their problem. No phone call needs to be placed. No chat window needs to be opened. No email needs to be exchanged. True self-assist (sometimes called self-service) is similar to how gas stations...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Don't Just Count on Technology to DELIVER Relationships

Technological advances have made relationship building easier than ever. Nonetheless, it’s crucial to remember that although these advances provide us with tools to assist us in what we call Relationship Architecture™, these tools, in and of themselves, are not what building a business...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016