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Discussion List
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Delivery of remote certification examsHello, With current situation with Covid-19, the delivery of proctored certification exams to customers or Partners is a real challenge: safety measures, travel restrictions, all trainings delivered …
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Are you RMCP certified? If so, where did you certify?I'm asking as I'm curious about the Resource Management Certified Professional path. Thank you!
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What is your North Star Metric for Service & Support?What is the key measure of success for your support services team? What is the one metric that is supported by all the other ones? Is it a process measurement, like cycle time or first-pass yield? Or…
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Innovative approaches to deploying technology to work-at-home users?Are you seeing any creative service providers offering innovative approaches (packages) to deploying technology to user's working at homes - unique technology; creative use of tools; innovative supp…
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PS Margins Calc AssistanceHi there! I have services resources that 1) do some configuration work that's included in the license for our subscription product (its a saas marketing tech), 2) deliver on the professional services…
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What is the COVID-19 Impact to your Delivery Operations?Hi Community, hope you are all staying safe and healthy! By now we hope you've seen our Rapid Research Response content and polls at: In this community, we'd love to hear how COVID-19 is impacting …
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How have your customers' expectations changed in the COVID-19 environment?What are your customers asking you to do differently?
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Are you delivering immersive training for your software solution(s)?What level of immersive training do you deliver? What tools do you use and how engaging do you make it?
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Working session on remote employee wellnessOn August 26th, I will be hosting a 90 minute working session on how companies are improving the wellness of their remote employees. If you are a TSIA interested in joining this session, email me at …
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Is anyone adjusting PS incentive comp plans with different measures or lower ute targets?We've seen a number of companies start to de-emphasize utilization as a primary driver of incentive compensation for PS individual contributors. Given COVID revenue and cost pressures, wanted to see …
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How are you coordinating successful training programs with Academia in the US?We are seeing a big adoption of our Academia Program offering in EMEA and APAC and a very low one in US. What is your recommendation in terms of how to connect with academic institutions in US to hav…
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Covid - What are you doing from an employee burnout perspective?Are you finding the working scenario during pandemic leading to employee burnout? If so what ideas do people have to ensure their teams remain engaged, motivated and energised?
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Do you have a learning community in your LMS (Learning Management System)?Do you have a learning community located in your LMS? If yes, how did you build it and what roles and responsabilities did you define? We have a community platform outside of LMS, but I think keeping…
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Looking for best practices around NPI for Services / Services Offerings.We would love to receive information on NPI best practices/research in the industry. We want to start crafting our POV but want to research some. Links, articles, or event contacts to speak with will…
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Are you using Mobile Analytics for your Services Business?By "Mobile Analytics", I'm talking about looking at dashboards or reports or apps on your phone vs booting up a laptop or desktop. Are you doing this? Is it happening outside your field s…
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How do you allocate the costs of central global education services?For Education groups that provide central global services (Virtual Labs, Collaboration Tools, etc) how do you allocate those costs to your P&L country groups? For example if you have a central l…
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Are you providing AR/VR tools to customers so they can perform remote services on their environment?We are actively pursuing a path to deliver AR technologies to our field resources to enhance their ability to deliver services (i.e., break/fix services) in the field to our customers. However, we h…
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How are you getting buy in from your field team to travel again?Overnight stays and air travel are normal things for Field Service, but with the new normal how do we make our technicians comfortable with hitting the road again?
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What changes in Services Delivery do you envision persisting long-term?In the post-Covid world most of our professional services delivery has moved to offsite. Do you envision this delivery modality shift to persist long-terml? What are the other big shifts you envisi…
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Profitability of the support contractsMay sound like a very basic question, but I am wondering how others are managing the profitability of the support contracts ? Obviously support agents are not dedicated to one contract so their time …
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Support KPIsHi all, We are doing a mid-year check in support check in with our team and metrics. We're wondering what other support departments are using as target goals for key support metrics Mean Time to Sol…
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Is anyone performing process mining to get insights?Hi Community, I am looking at ways we can mine our processes to see which processes are working as expected and which processes aren't. We are in the process of developing all of our processes in Sig…
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Who owns your knowledge base? Product, Product Marketing, Support, Other?Hi TSIA Community, We're a small but growing SaaS business and all of our knowledge base content to date has been written by our support and services teams. Often, as bonus tasks to their core suppor…
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Team Roles & ResponsibilitiesHello Everyone - I would love to understand how you structure business analysis and product expertise responsibilities within your service's delivery team. Do you expect all team members to have both…
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Any best practices how to increase participation in NPS around Digital Learning Offerings?We have seen a lower participation rate in NPS when selling Digital Learning Offerings that are not instructor lead compared to Instructor Lead Offerings. In todays times I would be interested to si…
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Help getting started with delivery partners in SaaSHi TSIA Community, We're close to the point in our SaaS marketing tech growth in which it makes sense to build a more formalized delivery partner network. We have a decent-sized in-house team with a…
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Has your frequency of cash flow analysis changed during this time of COVID?What was your cadence before? Q/M/W? Was the timeliness more driven by effort or interest? At FinancialForce, we used to look at it weekly, we now track cash flow on a daily basis
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Are you seeing an uptake in digital self service based on the global pandemic?We're focussed as a company on B2B and so far we sell our services and products via face to face reps, on self-service marketplaces and also via channel etc. I'm wondering if anybody is experiencing …
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What is your biggest Analytic Challenge/Biggest Spreadsheet Effort?What is your biggest analytic challenge/struggle? I guess another way to ask is what is the spreadsheet that takes the most effort to generate? I can tell you at FinancialForce our biggest analytic…
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Are you using a Workforce Management System for Support organizations?Hi! We are currently looking at finding a more efficient way to route our incoming cases to our support members and would like to take several factors in consideration: Skill/Capability Workload dist…
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