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Are you looking for tips to increase customer service productivity?  Well, you are not alone! Modern customer service teams have more tasks on their plates than they can manage. There are ticket backlogs running in triple digits, infuriated customers who want their problems to be resolved first, and of course, countless social media mentions.  Amidst...

Are you struggling to improve your IT operations? Are customers unhappy with the quality of your IT services?  Well, in that case, ITIL can prove to be a business saver. Historically, IT has always been undervalued. The IT department is simply considered responsible for managing information technology systems without having any impact on a company’s...

Just like an architect is dependent on a blueprint for developing timeless buildings, your CX team is dependent on a good customer experience strategy to delight customers.  There is no doubt that customer experience has become the new brand differentiator. There are businesses spending billions of dollars to craft the right strategies that help them...

While looking for ways to improve your IT and non-IT business services, you must have stumbled upon short yet heavy terms such as ESM or ITSM.  You must have thought to yourself, “What exactly is Enterprise Service Management (ESM)? And, can it really help my business in the long run?” It’s alright if you still...

Technology is no more limited to Sci-Fi movies. Just look around yourself, and you will find you are surrounded more by technology- your computer, smartphone, internet, etc., than actual human beings.  One great gift of technology has been Information technology- or IT as we normally call it. The fabric of modern businesses is connected by...

Imagine you walk into a customer service team meeting and you hear the manager say- “How are we performing? How many issues are we resolving daily? I need the numbers. Give me Data, Data, Data!”  And you think to yourself …  But why? Why data? Aren’t customer service professionals just supposed to have people skills...

In the pre-email era, people had to write letters, wait for them to get delivered, and then wait again for days to get a response.  Soon came the Internet, and the rest is history!  Earlier, what took days or weeks, can now be achieved in a matter of seconds. Awesome! However, email-arguably one of the...

Do you know what corporate mega-giants like Microsoft, Adobe, and Google have in common?  Besides, being worth billions of dollars, they all operate on the same ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) model.  However, surprisingly enough, not every SaaS company has been able to hit the jackpot.  The reason? Customer churn beyond control.  SaaS businesses out...

You’ve most likely heard people repeat the ‘customer is king’ mantra in the past. Well, there’s an obvious reason for this.  Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus enough on customers. Customer needs determine how, when, and where a business operates. If your customers prefer online shopping, you need an online...

Customer service experts have been trying to decode customer empowerment for a good number of years. In their quest, they have realized that just putting a human agent in the middle-ground to solve customer issues is not good enough.  The obvious question is –  What leads to customer empowerment in its true essence?  To put...