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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 122 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by LauraFay Technology & Services Strategy
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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 72 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by ShaunAdler Services Delivery & Operations
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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 103 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by SteveCloughesy Technology & Services Strategy
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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…Answered MelanieCarlson 58 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Edly Villanueva Services Delivery & Operations
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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 236 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Doug Caviness Customer Success
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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 Beverly van de Velde 48 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Technology & Services Strategy
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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…
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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 47 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by John Patrick Azurin Technology & Services Strategy
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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…
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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 119 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by PatrickCarmitchel Technology & Services Strategy
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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…
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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 55 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Denise Stokowski Customer Success
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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,…
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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 276 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by GeorgeHumphrey Technology & Services 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…Answered ✓ Juliebarrett 105 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Sara Johnson Services Delivery & Operations
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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 59 views 2 comments 1 point Most recent by PatrickCarmitchel Customer Success
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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…
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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 116 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by StevenForth Technology & Services 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 Corinne Flanagan 74 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by SteveCloughesy Services Delivery & Operations
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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.
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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 75 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by GoncaloPereira Technology & Services Strategy
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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…
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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 155 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Customer Success
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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 …Answered ✓ KrisFuehr 86 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by KrisFuehr Services Delivery & Operations
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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 51 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by C. Kyle Johnson Technology & Services Strategy
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How should service credits revenue be allocated & recognized when delivery is across departments?We have 2 general types of credits. One is used for training. Those are typically created over a certain time period and amortized monthly over that period whether or not the customer uses it. We are…Answered Serges Lemo 105 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Services Delivery & Operations
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Is there a standard approach to converting a Likert Scale to a CSAT%?Depending on the source, I get strong opinions with one of three options that seem to be commonly used. In our case, we have survey options that are roughly worded in this manner: "The service …Answered ✓ David Newman 17.3K views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Baca Services Delivery & Operations
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