2022 Tech Economic Sentiments Survey
If you are looking for visibility on how the current economy is impacting the technology industry, this is the survey for you (less than 20min to complete): https://survey.tsia.com/s3/6917452
If you are looking for visibility on how the current economy is impacting the technology industry, this is the survey for you (less than 20min to complete): https://survey.tsia.com/s3/6917452
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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 111 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 69 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… -
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 52 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 190 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 47 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Product Management & Strategy -
Frequency of surveysHello, as part of our focus on customer experience, surveys play a very important role. One question that always comes up is the frequency of the surveys. From your experience what would be considere… -
What are best-in-class benchmark for deployment times for XCaaS deployment?Dear Members, Any insights on XCaaS deployment time benchmarks will be helpful. Assuming an enterprise customer with >$5K MRR and multiple US sites: 1) What is the industry benchmark for how long …Answered DivyaAgarwal 44 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by JohnPatrickAzurin General Technology & Services -
What is Product Led Growth (PLG) and is it relevant to B2B?What is Product Led Growth (PLG) and is it relevant to B2B? This is a topic that has come up in a number of my conversations of late and I wanted share in case of interest. This is really about the d…Answered ✓ DougCaviness 393 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by LauraFay Sales & Revenue Growth
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Looking for resources on industry benchmarking for Case Deflection and EscalationI am currently interning in the Value Consulting department at Coveo, and conducting a project on industry benchmark across Support Services. I am on the hunt for data on support metrics (like case…Answered FalahRajput 67 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by PatrickCarmitchel General Technology & Services -
What are the best practices / resources for starting an online community for customers?Greetings! I am a CSM and am looking to start an online community for customers. I am interested in any resources (podcasts, articles, blog posts, courses etc) or best practices that might be out the… -
Digital Adoption Platform for servicesI'm wondering if anyone can recommend a Digital Adoption Platform (or equivalent) designed specifically for onboarding customers to managed services. Most seem to be designed for onboarding users to …Answered ✓ StephenSpence 51 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by DeniseStokowski Customer Success -
Do you have any thoughts to share about SWARM?Hello! I am researching SWARM as a strategy and more specifically Team SWARM Strategy. I am looking for some insight on the principles of what it really means to SWARM, what it looks like in action,… -
What are the attach rate standards for a Managed Services offering?One of our clients is building their Enterprise Managed Services Offering. They are trying to establish attach rate goals based on industry standards/ benchmarks. Would like to know from the communit…Answered ✓ DivyaAgarwal 108 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by GeorgeHumphrey Product Management & Strategy
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Definition of First Contact Resolution for a non case handling modelHi, I am reviewing FCR for our Tier1 model, which does not have case ownership. Does anyone have a similar model in Saas and if so how are you defining FCR? Also once the case is closed(without confi… -
Executive Sponsorship ProgramsI am looking to develop an executive sponsorship program around customer escalation. I have been conducting research over the past few days and am looking to talk with someone who has created a progr…
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How to track partial churnI was wondering if I could get some insight on best practices to track partial churn. We utilize Salesforce Opportunities to track our renewals and Gainsight as our CS tool. We can easily track full …Answered AdmirHadziabulic 42 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by PatrickCarmitchel Customer Success -
Creating a platform to gather, build and consolidate best practices from multiple productsI am responsible for building out a platform and process for making project best practices openly available on the web. Where it becomes more difficult is that this platform would accommodate multipl… -
Is there a standard for what % of time a SW dev team works on features to satisfy existing users?Hello TSIA community! I hope you are all doing well. I am hoping to get some insight from the community regarding on average, what percentage of time a software development team is working on differe…Answered ✓ TommyGlicker 95 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by StevenForth Product Management & Strategy
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Benchmark for Email Support SLAsHi, We are a SaaS company looking at revising our SLAs for email Support cases. Looking for insight/best practices that others employ. Thanks, CorinneAnswered CORINNEFLANAGAN 65 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by SteveCloughesy Service & Delivery -
What does your Support Service incentive program look like?I would like to introduce a bonus based incentive program to Support Services. Does anyone use such a program? How is defined? I am currently thinking of including a bonus based on CSAT performanc… -
Staffing for "Floating" CSM CoverageHi, How are some of you managing if you have high attrition or churn in your CS org? Has anyone ever created a justification for a "floating" CSM? Thank you. -
Security SLAs/SLOsHello TSIA community, we saw the pandemic accelerating the digital transformation and with this also the concerns related to security on the products have either hosted on-prem or public cloud. Cust…Answered GoncaloPereira 26 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by GoncaloPereira General Technology & Services
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How do you train/improve upon the skills of your Customer Success team? Certifications?This question has come up in a lot of conversations. Organizations are wondering what others have done when putting together an onboarding program for CSMs. Also what well-known certification progr… -
We are in the process of evaluating a new Customer Success Tool.The challenge is to find all requirements in one platform. It would be interesting to get your feedback on the type of platform your Customer Success Managers use to track: Health Monitoring Lifecycl…Answered ✓ Martina Stiegler 131 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Customer Success -
Barriers to building an on-demand workforceSeveral speakers at TSIA Interact talked about the idea of a blended workforce-- where some of the work is done by freelancers, particularly those local to the customer and where there are dispersed … -
Data Retention TimelineHello TSIA Community! From a Support Services/IT perspective, I'm hoping to get some insight into data retention timelines. I think "case" or "ticket" data should be kept for a …Answered ✓ ChrisHolm 43 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by C. Kyle Johnson General Technology & Services