Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

B2B Customer Support: Up in the Cloud or Down on the Ground? Part 1

You want to stop focusing only on getting tickets closed and instead work on building strong relationships with your customers. You’ve determined that e-mails and spreadsheets are no way to manage support interactions. And you want to break down the silos between support, sales, and product development and improve collaborations between these departments.

Focus on Your Customers' Success: Strategies for Retaining B2B Customers in Turbulent Economic Times

This decade has begun with economic uncertainty. From COVID-19 to political and social movements, businesses of all types have been impacted by these events resulting in major fluctuations in consumer trust.

How to marry asynchronous & synchronous collaboration workflows when setting up a remote team

Think of communication as the oxygen of a remote team. Like a good relationship, it takes work to communicate well, and there are ups and downs. As Carol Dweck from Stanford University, shares in her book Mindset: "It takes work to communicate accurately. It takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no 'they live happily ever after' but it's more like 'they worked happily ever after.'"

7 Ways to Improve Customer Responsiveness

It’s no secret that the significance of an effective customer service strategy lies not only in delighting existing customers but in drawing in new business as well. Customers have become increasingly impatient and expect companies to respond to them faster. They are also likely to switch to other businesses or companies if your response time is too high.

How AI Can Enable Support Teams in the New Normal

Covid19 has changed the world we live in. We shop and work differently. Companies have changed their ways of operating. Businesses have been transformed to ensure employees and customers are safe. Our processes are leaner and more orientated towards digital tools. Teams found a new way to collaborate and because we need to stop the spread of the virus, we communicate more frequently with online tools. This is what is called digital transformation.

Five Product Development Pitfalls - And How to Avoid Them

Through decades of consulting for companies such as Apple, Bose, Roche, IBM, and others, we at TCGen Inc. have seen our share of product development snafus. We tend to see many of the same problems across organizations and across industries. Most of them are simple, all of them avoidable, and yet their effects are significant. Below are five of the most common product development pitfalls we have seen — and how to avoid them.

10 ways to create an accountable team culture with Asana

No matter where your team works, whether remotely or all together in an office, building a culture of accountability is key to hitting your goals and keeping projects on track. Teammates want to know that they can rely on each other to jump in and collaborate on projects, and managers want to know that individual contributors can meet deadlines and expectations without being micromanaged. At the heart of accountability is communication and transparency.

What is a Work Order?

A work order is a documentation of a job or service request that is issued to track and monitor the status of the request which is raised by either a customer or internal stakeholder. Companies that provide field service, or operate in industries that involve regular inspection or maintenance of equipment or machinery deal with work orders frequently.