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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Productization of services is accomplished by associating tangible features with intangible service offerings. Tangible features may take the form of personnel, collateral, methodologies, pricing, facilities, or other attributes. Automation tools like enterprise service automation, database, and project management tools serve as enablers to service productization. By associating tangible features with intangible services, the professional services firm can build client confidence.
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5/16/2005 12:00:00 AM
Good Customer Service Is Simple
Most companies salute good customer service as a key objective. But in its simplest form, what is good customer service? Outstanding customer service is a competitive advantage. Most companies salute good customer service as a key objective. But in its simplest form, what is good customer service? Olin Thompson lays down some basic requirements for businesses and explains the role of business processes in supporting good customer service.
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: to build or tear down customer satisfaction. If you say you are going to deliver at 10:00 AM, be at the dock at 10:00 AM. If you say you will call at 3:00 PM, call at 3:00 PM. If you interviewed a large segment of your customers about their expectations, you would get a wide variety of responses. Reducing their expectations to a few basic issues, you would do well to abide by the following requirements: Be Dependable —Being dependable means being consistent. Your customer has to be confident that you
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Where Has All the Service Gone?
For some reason, once a product moves into the retail channel, most manufacturers lose control. The retailer abdicates responsibility. When faced with a problem, the consumer is alone! What happened to the lifetime value of the customer? This article examines the lapses and promises in providing service to the end customer.
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: corner offices of their own, as the personal assistant changed into digital form. In the unwired world of today, the immediacy of the Internet has transcended geographical boundaries. The physical becomes irrelevant. Activities taking place in Beijing that result in electronics for European markets are no more disruptive than the economic revolution that enabled creation of uniform products anywhere in the world. Of greater concern is the fact that the most intangible of corporate assets—customer
11/2/2004
Recession? Steal Market Share by Increasing Customer Service!
Recession? Steal Market Share by Increasing Customer Service!Secure Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Organization of Steal Market Share by Increasing Customer Service. During a recession, don’t follow the cost-cutting crowd. Of course, be frugal, but in areas that don’t touch the customer. Forget what everyone else is doing. Now isn’t the time to follow the masses—now is the time to make difficult decisions that will poise your company for unprecedented growth coming out of the downturn. Find out how to think and act for the long term—and emerge from the current economic stall a winner.
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: coming out of the downturn. Find out how to think and act for the long term—and emerge from the current economic stall a winner. Recession? Steal Market Share by Increasing Customer Service! style= border-width:0px; /> comments powered by Disqus Related Topics: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Service and Support, Technology Tools and Methods Source: Mindshare Technologies Learn more about Mindshare Technologies Readers who downloaded this white paper also read these
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Enterprise Software Service and Maintenance Alternatives
Traditional license models may be wearing out their welcome for both vendors and customers. A competitive market and a more IT savvy business generation is prompting change, but what alternatives are out there for software service and maintenance?
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: migration strategies at their own pace. See While Oracle and PeopleSoft Are to Fuse, Competitors Ruse--Leaving Customers (Somewhat) Bemused for more information. TomorrowNow contends that, because its service and maintenance costs are half of that of Oracle s current pricing policy, existing customers should be able to save enough money over the next few years to cover new software purchases when the time comes. By this time SAP s and Oracle s next-generation service-oriented products will be real,
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Navigating Between Service Management Scylla & Charybdis – Part 2 » The TEC Blog
earlier predictions within its own survey’s findings. Namely, the proportion of mobile enterprise workforce is increasing, whereby the number of global mobile knowledge workers is expected to reach 200 million by 2012. The Rise of the Mobile Workforce Moreover, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need to provide connectivity to their mobile workforce. To that end, over 70 percent of surveyed organizations said that they would invest in notebook computers , smartphones , and personal digital
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Internet-based Phone Service for Small to Midsize Companies
Internet-based Phone Service for Small to Midsize Companies. Get Knowledge Associated with Internet-based Phone Service for Small to Midsize Companies. Typically, the cost of feature-rich and scalable business phone systems prevents small businesses from purchasing these powerful tools in the initial stages of their growth. Thus, new companies generally choose standard business phone lines from their local phone company along with multi-line phones. With voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology, however, small businesses now have a cost-effective, feature-rich alternative.
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Field Service Mobility: Warranty Management
In this white paper, the author discusses the real-life challenges faced by field technicians and how those technicians can be empowered with mobility solutions to improve field productivity, increase the accuracy of diagnostics, reduce warranty and invoicing cycle times, increase service revenues, and most importantly, improve the customer experience.
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customers while keeping costs down. As simple as that, right? Well, not really (and thus the Scylla & Charybdis reference ). An All-too-common Customer Experience Scenario How many of us have not had an experience similar to what the 2009 article in the Integrated Solutions magazine, entitled “The Field Service Paradox” and written by Israel Beniaminy, Senior VP at ClickSoftware Technologies , talks about? In a nutshell, why is it that faceless call center agents know much more about
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years, have perfected their own proprietary forecasting method (the Smart-Willemain method), and won numerous grants to study the issue of intermittent demand. Forecasting demand when the demand history has been a consistent level of X units per period of time is not particularly difficult; neither is forecasting demand when there has been a consistent and steady growth in the level of demand. This is not to say that forecasting is easy, but forecasting steady demand, or steadily growing demand, is
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Software as a Service: Not without Caveats
Software-as-a-service solutions often cannot provide that final twenty percent or so that differentiates a company from its competitors. Of major concern is whether off-premise applications can support complex, global organizations on a constant basis and on strict service level agreements.
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