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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…Answered Ana Howes 64 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Alexander Ziegler Services Delivery & Operations
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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…Answered Justin Friend 58 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Jim Bignell Services Delivery & Operations
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How is your CSM team adapted to being VirtualCSM ?CSM role is relationship-based engagement, would love to hear challenges, impact and ideas on ensuring CSM value is not diluted with 100% virtual customer engagment.
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How are you monetizing customer success?Any ideas on customer success portfolio management and how to drive effective monetization or new strategies post COVID-19?
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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…Answered ✓ Joe Thomas 32 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Joe Thomas Services Delivery & Operations
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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…Answered Bill Hor 41 views 3 comments 5 points Most recent by Bill Hor Services Delivery & Operations
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Covid Impact on Marketing Strategies & Lessons LearnedExplain how your marketing approach has changed during Covid and what lessons have you learned? Assuming most had to refocus their efforts towards digital, will you continue down that route once the …
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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…Answered ✓ TraeShattuck 206 views 8 comments 5 points Most recent by Thomas Lah Services Delivery & Operations
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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?Answered ✓ David Hartley 31 views 5 comments 2 points Most recent by Benjamin Bloom Services Delivery & Operations
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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…Answered Piyush Dogra 159 views 5 comments 6 points Most recent by StevenForth Services Delivery & Operations
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Multiple Languages Static & Evolving ContentHowdy Community! My first post :) I work for a Software company that has grown significantly over the last 5 years. We do an outstanding job IMO on Self-Service solutions for our customers (B2B) - …Answered Luke Morris 23 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by StevenForth Technology & Services Strategy
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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 …Answered ✓ Kirill Markelov 36 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Kirill Markelov Services Delivery & Operations
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Regional pricingWhen you're establishing regional price points for bundled outcome-based annuity services, do you typically link the price to foreign exchange rates or regional Consulting/Edu rates?Answered ✓ Jim Bignell 13 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by MichaelSmart Technology & Services Strategy
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Role for PS RevenueDoes anyone have a role specialized to generate Professional Services revenue. For example, during the sales process the customers gets handed off to a specialist who creates the right success prescr…
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How are you handling employee relocation in this remote working post-COVID world?As we start planning for a 'post-COVID world', we are thinking about a more flexible work environment for our team members on a permanent basis. We will be expanding our remote work programs and maki…Answered Mary Cay Kosten 62 views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by StevenForth Technology & Services Strategy
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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…Answered ✓ Courtney Ellis 332 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Melanie Gallo Services Delivery & Operations
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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…Answered DavidHarbert 21 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Mary Cay Kosten Services Delivery & Operations
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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…Answered ✓ Greg Higgins 57 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Greg Higgins Services Delivery & Operations
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What are the key components of a customer success program?Customer success is very different from customer support. The former is focused on understanding your customer's business and how you contribute to their success. The latter is more about your own pr…
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Where does Customer Success "live" within your organization and why?Acknowledging that Customer Success culture should ultimately span the entire organization, when we look at the Customer Success function (the folks ultimately responsible for supporting the customer…
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What are your main areas of focus when it comes to digitizing your service supply chain?I have been leading our digitization efforts for a few years and we have made great inroads on advancing ourselves. Balancing the capture of data and achieving and maintaining data quality standards…Answered Josh Garrison 31 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Josh Garrison Technology & Services Strategy
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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…Answered Gayle Lassen 134 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Alexander Ziegler Services Delivery & Operations
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How are you nurturing deep collaboration in a Pandemic world?I hope that some of you have found some sort of magical elixir for what I'll call "deep collaboration" during a Pandemic. For context, I'm the TSIA Collaboration Champion for our company, …Answered Joseph Reifel 21 views 3 comments 6 points Most recent by StevenForth Technology & Services Strategy
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Who are some of the most customer-centric B2B companies?I would love to get impressions, opinions, and thoughts on who the most customer-centric B2B companies are. We are launching a CX Initiative ourselves, and we'd love to chat with other companies abo…
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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…Answered ✓ Alexander Ziegler 84 views 12 comments 5 points Most recent by Katie Lynch-Holmes Services Delivery & Operations
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Renewals Process (do you sign an agreement or just send an invoice)I am really curious about how many companies have a defined renewal process where a customer has to sign an agreement to continue their services. Basically, if they don't sign, an invoice never gets …
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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…Answered Greg Higgins 74 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Greg Higgins Services Delivery & Operations
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How does your Education Services business model work with other Service lines?The Education business is always a little different in that it can serve different audiences (internal, customers, hybrid). How is your Education business aligned to other Services (are you pure P&a…Answered Kim Metz 36 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Alexander Ziegler Technology & Services Strategy
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How are you using website analytics to align with future business strategies?Hello, TSIA community! I am curious if anyone has seen trends regarding an uptick around eCourses vs. scheduled virtual instructor-led training courses on your website? I assume that some customers p…
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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 basisAnswered Joe Thomas 41 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by [Deleted User] Services Delivery & Operations
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