How can you make every call count and create the ideal customer experience? By using the 5 E’s: empathy, enlightenment, education, empowerment, and entertainment.
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
As the face of IT, the support organization plays a significant role in the customer’s overall experience and perception of IT. In recent years, many organizations have found that their internal customers’ expectations have evolved; they now expect—if not demand—the usability, self-help tools,...
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
We all have customers: internal or external, public or private sector, investors or shareholders. Regardless of who our customers are, we need to not only provide them with an excellent product or an exceptional service, we must also ...
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
As companies have focused on improving processes and gaining greater efficiencies, one key area that has suffered is the customer experience, which is the sum of every connection an organization has with its internal and external customers across all channels and every touchpoint.
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
Every support organization is judged on how well it provides service to its customers. But facilitating a positive customer experience is equally vital, not only for the organization but also for the analysts handling incidents and issues.
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016
If we don’t carefully design and provide compelling community experiences, our customers will inevitably try to create them anyway, without our intervention and with unpredictable results. Thankfully, we have an opportunity today to be proactive and create the best possible customer...
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
The vast majority of customer care involves limiting the interruptions that send customers to your service desk in the first place. Proactive IT enables the organization to avoid detours, prevent incidents, and address or fix problems before they impact the customer.
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016
Many support organizations aspire to implement good self-service solutions; not all succeed. Here are a few tips to help you impress your users and your stakeholders.
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016
In this article, we’ll explore the customer service and communication skills (also known as soft skills) that enable customer support professionals to deliver consistent, high-quality service and support to customers. We’ll also discuss how these skills fit into three overall groups:...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016
Personalized support for VIPs can be expensive, but the value tends to outweigh the costs.
Date Published - Last Updated May 11, 2016