Services Delivery & Operations
Support & Field, Professional, Managed Services, and Training
Discussion List
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Benchmark for effort distributionHi Looking for % effort distribution benchmarks for a professional service project. Phases = Planning, Requirements, Design, Build, and Test Alternately a cost distribution may also help.
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What new Field Services innovations are resulting from this pandemic?What are some of the more interesting innovations in Field Services occurring these days? And, the most common?
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How are you combating the increase in non-renewals of service contracts?Are there new services or deliverables that you are offering to keep customers that are trying to reduce their spending.
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Is anyone seeing a trend back toward in-person Professional Services delivery?Hi All - Have you seen any indication of trends from clients whether a return to in-person professional services (PS) delivery is anticipated in 2020, or is the sense that clients will expect PS pro…
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Are you seeing a reduction in partner labor rates?An effect of the pandemic has been an increase in the unemployment rate. With the labor market not as constrained as it was a year ago, have you seen as an outcome a willingness of third parties to …
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Instructor EnablementI'd love to talk with someone about how you're utilizing instructors during any down time and keeping them focused on the virtual customer experience.
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Capacity management leading practicesWe are looking to up level how we analyze our capacity trends, using pipeline and existing resource pool skills. What are some things your organization is doing that are working really well?
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What is the biggest challenge you see supporting customers during this pandemic?I am keen to learn more about examples of how companies are supporting their end users or customers during this unique time of IT lock downs, remote workers and so much more.
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Customers moving from Phone to Chat... whatsapp?During this crisis, many customers have switch from Phone to Chat. Probably easier to chat if working from home with people around than phone call. There is still a way to go, but clearly it is a fas…
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Are you seeing a significant shift from field delivered services to carry-in/depot services?For business customers, hardware repairs have been historically delivered at their place of business. Given the current pandemic, are your customers shifting to other methods of delivering break/fix…
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Self-Service Surveys - What questions does your organization ask?My organization has taken on a huge initiative to launch self-service to our client base and one of the KPIs that we're wanting to use to measure success are survey results. I have seen a lot of mate…
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Current growth patterns with eLearning subscription enrollments and consumption?Wondering what everyone is seeing in terms of growth for eLearning subscription users. Are you seeing the same type of increases in eLearning subscription enrollments as you are with virtual ILT? Add…
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Do you see differences in the current need for Digital Learning dependent on Geographies?There was always a difference between Europe / NA / LA / AP / Africa and acceptance of Digital Learning. I'm wondering if in times of COVID19 you're seeing changes? Are there Geographies that are mov…
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Upcoming Rapid Research Response PollsWe have a new set of Rapid Research Response polls lined up for the month of June, expect to see one every Tuesday. Topics include very virtual offices, services convergence, and customer migration t…
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Dashboard/Balanced Scorecard for comparing Market UnitWe are working on a Exec Dashboard focused on comparing performance across our North America Services Market Units. The goal is to provide a concise ~2 page format of key insights to regional leaders…
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How are people applying scenario planning to technology services?The events of the past few months have renewed my interest in formal scenario planning. I found myself and my business less well prepared for Covid 19 than I would have hoped. I have now begun the ha…
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Are Product Analytics Accessible to Customer Success Teams?Does the CS team have influence on the product roadmap to get the needed product analytics to run effective customer engagements? What cross team practices make a difference?
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Analytics Champions Community Virtual Session Call for Speakers!TSIA's Analytics Champions Community, a community that brings members together to generate and share analytics related content, seeks presenters for our next virtual session! Scheduled for early Sept…
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How are companies getting customers to renew subscriptions in the COVID environment?How are you getting customers to renew education subscriptions in the COVID-19 environment?
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Response Rate Changes to Customer Experience Surveys?We have been surprised by lower email response rates to customer experience surveys in recent months. Has anyone else experienced this challenge and what actions are you taking to encourage particip…
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Any experiences, challenges, using AR/VR technology for delivery?We generally deliver our service via old-school face-to-face means (including phone). With social distancing, travel restrictions, etc,, we're quickly trying to adopt AR/VR technologies for a richer…
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Are you already planning future face-to-face events (like Advisory Boards) with partners and when?We transformed typical face-to-face events like AdvisoryBoards and Partner Conference to virtual events. But still there is a certain way of communication that is not possible in a virtual world. As …
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Maintaining client engagement during long sessions over the internetHi All - How do you all ensure engagement for longer periods of time (one ore more full days of consulting) in a remote environment? We seem to do well with small classes (training in nature), howev…
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Are you converting field service work to depot work in response to COVID-19?Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or thoughts on converting existing field service contract work to depot service in light of the pandemic. For example, if you have equipment t…
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Is a virtual workforce influencing customer NPS scores?I'm curious to know if members are seeing changes in NPS scores attributed to a virtual workforce. We're seeing higher output but it may be a false positive as we have also seen a drop in time off. …
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Is there a need to adopt Digital Learning Offerings to include interactive components?With the current situation we're seeing as everybody significant increase in the need to digital learning offerings. In internal discussions the question came up if we should include into existing no…
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What Resource and Workforce Management Challenges are you Facing?How has your resource and workforce management been impacted by the global crisis?
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How to measure relationship and quality of case resolution for regular customers?I have a group of designated support resources that interact with individual within their customer portfolio very regularly (sometimes several times per week). I am interested on the ability to measu…
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Utilization MetricsIf service delivery bookings have decreased at all for your organization, what plans do you have to keep utilization metrics in line with expectations? For example, if there are less Professional Se…
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Cost of Post-Live Support: Benchmarks?Hi All - Our Support Services team is preparing an analysis on the cost of post-live support (support provided our Customers upon go-live of a software implementation, through their maintenance contr…
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