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Where business transformation is brought to life: https://www.tsia.com/conference
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Training Subscriptions & PartnersDo you handle training subscriptions for partners differently from how a subscription is offered to customers? If so, how? I've heard that partners don't budget $5,000 a year for training (not just … -
Customer Advisory Boards -- lessons learned and best practices?Have you stood up a Customer Advisory Board (CAB) to shape your company's strategic direction, particularly around product, go-to-market and service delivery? I'm interested in hearing learnings and …Answered ✓ DougCaviness 86 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Neal Hatton Product Management & Strategy -
What are the best hardware support / support newsletters?Interested in learning more about the best hardware/product support and CX in general newsletters. Let me know of any good ones!Answered callmemaisie 65 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Neal Hatton General Technology & Services
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Who owns updates to your company’s Service Status page?Hi TSIA Community, Who owns updates to your company’s Service Status page? Support, Engineering, another team? We’re currently deliberating about https://statuspage.splashthat.com/. Thank you! -
How is your Support Department handling sanctions on software?I'm curious to know how others are handling sanctions on software and how it impacts service delivery? Has there been proactive reach to Russian customers? Is there a flag on the contact or account, … -
Looking for suggestions on Remote Monitoring Alarm ManagementHi, I currently have a home grown alarm management system that we are looking to upgrade. We are deciding to continue to invest in a homegrown system or to fine an "off the shelf" solutio…Answered Sal Conti 36 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by YazminGutierrezEscoffie General Technology & Services -
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Is anyone open to talking about how you manage your Support organization?I work for a SaaS company with roughly 60 Support Consultants servicing both B2B and B2C clients, and we're constantly looking for ways to scale the business, streamline processes, deflect cases (pro… -
Does anyone have any advice on how to incentivize certification exams?We are trying to increase our exam intake and I would be interested to know of different ways people do this. One idea we have is to provide discounts for people who are about to take their 2nd or fi… -
Survey QuestionsLooking for input from the community on the below 2 questions: Is there a way to determine what are the right set of questions we are asking through Customer Surveys for Tech support? What should be … -
Teams structure to support High Touch customers?Does aligning Customer Success, Service Delivery, and Support Engineers team members into individual teams aligned to specified accounts, help better support High Touch customers? If so, in what ways… -
What percent of royalties to you pay to Authorized Training Partners?I've inherited a program that gives away 80-90% of training revenue to Authorized Training Partners (ATPs) -- even though we provide the eCommerce, registration, course materials, and lab environment…Answered ✓ BeverlyvandeVelde 44 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by BeverlyvandeVelde Sales & Revenue Growth
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Any candidate out there for a Community Development Manager role?My team is looking for a solid candidate to either work in Austin, TX or work remotely. Job description and details: https://pef.fa.us1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/4035/… -
Explicit vs Implicit DeflectionDo people track explicit vs implicit deflections together or separately? -
Two Senior Product & Program Manager roles for Services at Schneider ElectricHello Everyone, Just joined this TSIA discussion forum (thanks @LauraFay for the recommendation) & thought of reaching out to the community to see if I could get any pointers/referral for experi… -
How to better Customer Interactions?Hello Everyone, I am looking to answer the following questions/prompts. If you have any advice or resources please let me know.. thank you! 1. You never say "no"-- You do say what you can d… -
Any New Framework for PPDIOO or PBM ?Hi All, Are there any Reports that have updated or refreshed the PPDIOO or the PBM (Plan Build Manage) frameworks? I wanted to connect with folks who are active in this area. Thank you, - raj - -
Time to Onboard Customer ??Hi All, After Customer purchases your service, How long does it take to have first engagement with Customer? How long does it take to on-board the Customer? I would appreciate any inputs, comments …
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Has anyone used Jira for the Agile project management and capacity planning of Curriculum Teams?Hi everyone, We are coming to the close of phase 1 of our implementation of Agile working, using Jira as a project management tool for end-to-end technical training. We have developed a functioning p…Answered LizDodsworth 33 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by MariaManning-Chapman Service & Delivery -
Fix time SLOs/SLAs - Present and futureHello TSIA community, we deliver software products and of course, as part of the support offer, we have SLOs/SLAs for Response Time ; Resolution and Fix. The Fix time SLOs were defined long ago and h…Answered GoncaloPereira 31 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by EdlyVillanueva General Technology & Services -
What equipment changes are you making to support a hybrid workforce of engineers?Engineers can have various equipment needs to be productive: performance computing, display/ monitor requirements, peripheral or hardware connectivity, collaboration tools, etc. Engineer productivity… -
Is Product Led Growth (PLG) just for SaaS Startups?The strategy can be applied in more places than you think. FYI on the latest from TSIA on the topic. Blog - What is Product Led Growth? Report - Is Product Led Growth applicable to your business? Re…Answered LauraFay 117 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by LauraFay Product Management & Strategy -
Getting your Initiative Prioritized on the Product RoadmapProduct roadmap capacity is a hot commodity. There’s high demand from every team advocating for the customer, for revenue and even the pet project. Political capital is spent on it. Can roadmap capac…
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Has anyone stopped charging customers for training? If so, what was the impact?We are revising our education pricing and want to stop charging for the intro classes. I'm curious if anyone has stopped charging. I'm interested to know if more customers took the classes or if t…Answered ✓ ClaireHernandez 66 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by ShaunAdler Service & Delivery -
Outcomes from digital scale Customer Success?Do you have an interesting story to share about the benefits you've seen and the challenges you had to overcome in building digital scale into your customer success program? I had a recent discussion…
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How often do you revise Support Services pricing?There is plenty of information and strategies to consider on how to price Support Services. What I see far less of is how often organizations are revising Support Services prices, and by how much. Do…Answered BrianFady 55 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by SteveCloughesy Product Management & Strategy -
Has anyone found a way to effectively visualize the fly wheel effect in Tableau or other softwareHi, I am trying to effectively visualize a flywheel effect multiple levels deep(i.e. as x grows, y grows, then z grows) with relationships with a very, very large set of data. Anyone find an effecti… -
Digital touch Customer Success approach (1000+ customers)Hi, TSIA community! We are planning to set up an automated workflow (using the CSM platform) with no personal interactions. Our product portfolio does not have a usage statistics feature and it will …Answered Pavlo Paoliahushko 195 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by DougCaviness Customer Success -
What are the best practices for partnerships with Product Management and Education Services?I'm looking to offset training content development resources to report into product management, but who will have a dotted line reporting to education services. I'm curious to know if anyone else is …Answered BeverlyvandeVelde 42 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Product Management & Strategy
