Welcome back to the fourth installment in our ten-part series covering The Complete Guide to Customer Service Transformation. We’ve established the financial implications of Service Optimization, and now we’ll explore how to engage your organization’s leadership and inspire your teams to share in this vision. Regardless of your position within an enterprise, securing the support of your team, colleagues, and leadership is crucial to the success of your initiative.

After a detailed review of Service Optimization in the previous post, part three shifts our focus towards understanding the tangible return on investment (ROI) of improved customer service. Businesses investing time, money, and resources into customer service transformation should have a clear understanding of the potential return on investment (ROI). Fortunately, there is plenty of data demonstrating the value of investing in customer experience (CX).

Welcome back to our ten-part blog series on Customer Service Transformation. In our previous blog post, we examined the evolving topic of B2B service trends. Today, we continue to draw further insights from chapter two of the Vivantio eBook, The Complete Guide to Customer Service Transformation – where we explore the cornerstone of this transformation – Service Optimization.

Welcome to the first in a series of ten blog posts, drawing insights from the Vivantio eBook, The Complete Guide to Customer Service Transformation. We kick off the series discussing the evolution of B2B service trends, a shift that has significantly altered the conventional business landscape. In an era of digital dominance, labelling a business as a “service business” is becoming an obsolete distinction.

We’re excited to introduce our upcoming blog series: “Navigating the Path to Customer Service Excellence,” which is a review of the Vivantio eBook The Complete Guide to Customer Service Transformation. Over the next five weeks, we’ll be diving into a pivotal component of B2B success—putting customers at the very core of your business operations.

Support tickets are the primary way that users communicate incidents and problems. This is why it is important for businesses to understand the support ticket lifecycle, as well as the interventions and tools that can speed up the resolution process. To help businesses understand how they can improve, we are going to cover.

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.

In customer service, a business’s promises only add value when they are guaranteed in writing. Customers want to know that quality and timely service is guaranteed, and that they have specific recourse if things don’t go as planned. Service level agreements (SLAs) designate contracts between a service provider and their clients that define the service provided, as well as the timeframe and delivery method.

As businesses develop, their need for organization and consistency grows. A larger ship takes longer to turn, and the same principle applies to large firms that require buy-in from numerous departments to properly implement change. As a result, standard practices and concepts have emerged to help business leaders better organize their operations. Enterprise architecture represents one of these concepts, and ITSM provides a comprehensive set of best practices and procedures.