If you have a large support team, it can be difficult to maintain complex workflows. In an ideal world, your team would easily distribute tickets to the people who know how to handle them best – with no time lost unnecessarily bouncing support tickets between different agents or departments. Without the right tools, teams have to use cumbersome and costly workarounds to route tickets to the right places.
A comprehensive knowledge base is an essential piece of any 21st-century support operation. But implementing it is just the first step – maintenance comes next. The best way to maintain your knowledge base is by harvesting support agents’ collective knowledge – but they’re often swamped and enabling their contributions can be a huge operational hurdle. Fortunately, you can easily capture content using the Zendesk Knowledge Capture app, which helps agents in three key ways.
Chatbots are fast becoming part of the digital core of tech tools that companies utilize as a secret weapon to increase their competitive advantage in the customer service arena. At the same time, chatbots are solving a very real problem taking place today: of a decrease in available customer service agents and positive customer experiences due to an economic downturn. Some of the biggest corporations in the world are experiencing layoffs.
Establishing a quality help desk ticket workflow is the key to achieving quicker and higher quality resolutions. Not only does this achieve better outcomes for users, but it also improves business operations and makes service departments more cost-effective. Many of the issues that cause delayed responses, missed tickets, or return tickets for issues that weren’t resolved correctly are caused by broken or poorly optimized help desk ticket workflows.
This post will help to answer the following questions: Incident management is a core function of any IT department, covering internal and external support ticket resolution. As such, it’s not surprising that many companies building out their IT department will likely implement an incident management ticketing system. Support tickets, or incidents, represent an individual user issue with a business’s product or IT network.
Manufacturers are taking the ‘glass half full’ approach to forecasting their performance for the next couple of years. Specifically, they are viewing CX as a potentially profitable tool as they look to overcome what has been a difficult period of supply chain disruption and rising costs. The rationale is that if they can continue to delight customers, it will help them stand out from a crowd of competitors.
As a result of today’s macroeconomic climate, software companies are looking for ways to control costs, accelerate net retention and drive profitable growth. This requires a focus on building customer loyalty through differentiated CX. And agents play a critical role, but many are struggling to keep up with evolving customer expectations. Learn how a tiered approach to customer service can increase customer satisfaction and keep operating costs in check.
