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Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a...
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Customer experience is the most powerful tool available today for distinguishing your company from competitors ? each contact with the customer offers an opportunity for strengthening your relationships by delivering...
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As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is...
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If you aren't assessing customer satisfaction you are overlooking a potential goldmine. This valuable data is crucial to creating a successful IT strategy. But where do you start?
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Since its launch in 2001, Virtual IT's guiding principle has been, 'We'll look after your IT so you can look after
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Now more than ever, businesses of all sizes are investigating innovative yet practical ways to reduce costs, streamline operations and retain customers. One of the most effective ways you can...
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There are two certainties in the support world: Customer expectations are on the rise, and support organizations must effectively differentiate from the competition to be successful. That's why it's more...
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Self-service continues to rock the support world because it drastically frees up representatives' time and reduces expenses. But are there hidden costs of self-service?
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This new SupportIndustry.com white paper examines key benefits of a virtual support center, including significantly reduced costs improved service delivery and improved customer and employee satisfaction.
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IT consultants and Professional Services (PS) organizations have much to gain with remote services and support delivery - namely reduced travel costs, increased margins and improved billable utilization.
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The logic is that broadband-enabled PCs can be used for watching live broadcast video via streaming technology, so a user's computer essentially becomes a television. Sixty-five per cent said their projects achieve less than 75 per cent of their...
By creating a human capital management strategy that is linked directly to business goals, the IT organisation can create a team with the right people enabled with the right skills to assist the needs of the business.
So, for example, a sales process should be able to demonstrate the revenue generated and the cost of sale. Closing the loop and delivering full cycle IT brings with it huge potential benefits, not least in terms of enhanced productivity and...
UK manufacturing companies appear to achieve an extra 2.9 per cent in productivity for each 10 per cent of their employees that use the internet. John Higgins, director general of tech supplier body Intellect, added in a statement: "Countries that...
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