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What 'the customer is always right' means in a digital-first world

It seems like everyone is talking about the customer these days, but it hasn’t always been a top priority. Long viewed as a cost center by many businesses, customer service has been thrust into the spotlight during the pandemic. With so much uncertainty in the air, we are reaching out to businesses for help more than ever before.

How IT leaders can be more customer centric in 2021

Delivering a more memorable, fulfilling customer experience starts with — no surprise here — understanding your customers. It means putting them first, and IT leaders have a big role to play in emphasizing customer needs and expectations. This video dives into the topic and reveals insights and techniques for IT leaders.

How DB Systel, Partner of Deutsche Bahn, Provides a World-Class Customer Service Thanks to Rocket.Chat

Germany’s railway infrastructure is considered the backbone of its economy because of a single company: Deutsche Bahn (DB). As the country’s local and long-distance railway service provider, the company’s growth is remarkable: Industry: Railway transport, Logistics Headquarter: Berlin, Germany Headcount: 300,000 employees Annual Passengers: 151 million passengers transported in 2019

Learn the Value of Specialized Collaboration Tools

Throughout the pandemic, the collaboration tools market experienced a major boom with the rise of remote work. However, the recent acquisition of Slack by Salesforce has reinforced the growing separation between workplace tool suites and specialized collaboration tools. Suites have become “one-stop-shop” solutions that can fill multiple functions for companies and employees, which brings into question, what value is there for niche solutions?

What Is a Chatbot (and How Does It Work)?

In this article, we’ll go through everything you need to know about chatbots. We’ll explain what a chatbot is, how it works, and why you need one. We’ll also go through information like: By the end of the article, you’ll know exactly what a chatbot is and how to get started using one. Let’s dive right in.

Waweru Mathenge on The Revamped Role of Corporate Secretaries | CSIA x Convene Webinar

Undoubtedly, existing employee functions have been greatly affected by digitalization. Some are even concerned that digitalizing certain processes may lead to laying off employees. Waweru Mathenge, Chairman of the Insitute of Certified Secretaries in Kenya, explains how digitalization redefined the roles of corporate secretaries. This quote is from Going Digital in the Boardroom: Considerations and Challenges, a webinar powered by Convene and the Corporate Secretaries International Association, held on January 27, 2021.

Organize your sidebar with custom, collapsible channel categories

Mattermost now gives users flexibility to organize channels and direct messages into custom, collapsible sidebar categories. Users gain full personalization of their sidebar to improve productivity, reduce clutter, and focus on what matters. Upgrade to Mattermost server v5.32 (releasing February 16th) and later to access these feature enhancements on your desktop, with mobile support coming soon.

M Files Admin: Sending Notifications via Workflow | Intelligent Information Management

Notifications are a great way of keeping people up to date of what is going on with the documents they put into a workflow. To send a notification, first define the recipient users and user groups. Then enter the notification subject and the message. You can also specify the user from metadata or state transitions.

New: Organize, monitor, and communicate work at multiple levels of your organization by adding Portfolios to Portfolios

Despite all of the changes to the workplace last year, one thing hasn’t changed—employees are still spending 60% of their time on work about work. These activities, like searching for information or chasing status updates, take time away from meaningful, strategic work that moves your organization forward. In 2018, we introduced Portfolios to help teams reduce work about work and organize their most important strategic initiatives with project portfolio management.

How a MNC uses OneDesk for ERP

ERP – or enterprise resource planning – is a term thrown around fairly often when discussing the operations of a business. The focus of ERP is to improve efficiency by seeking insight into where resources are allocated and improving how they are being utilized. To develop a full picture of where resourcing is currently, analysis and planning needs to be done across verticals – from finance to human resources, from distribution to procurement.