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Roy Atkinson
CEO at Clifton Butterfield, LLC
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, United States
• Specialty: Guiding organizations to better service and service management through the adoption of good practices and appropriate technologies.
• A "model of the future digital leader."? CIO Insight: http://ow.ly/z8TTk
Roy Atkinson is one of the top influencers in the service and support industry, with an international reputation. His expertise been featured by The Economist, Social Media Today, Computerworld, BizTech Magazine, and many others. He has contributed to books on Digital Transformation, Customer Service, Social Media, and IT Change Management. In May, 2020, Nextiva included him in its list of "The Top 50 Customer Service Experts of the Decade (2010-2020)."
"He is a writer, analyst, speaker and top influencer in the service industry. His speciality is exploring the connection between customer service and technology, with extensive experience in the IT and technology industries." - Miller Heiman Group
Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking Travels From: Greenville, South Carolina Speaking Topics: Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, IT service and support
Measurement, Management, and Money: The True Cost of IT Incidents
When IT measures the cost of incidents, it is usually in the form of Fully Burdened Cost per Ticket. While this metric does show how much the support organization is spending on its own operations in response to incident tickets, it does not show the costs to the organization as a whole.
In this session, we’ll walk through the factors--such as lost productivity--that contribute to the costs of service interruptions from a more holistic perspective. While a bit frightening, the numbers can be useful in showing the value of a more stable, well-managed IT capability and also help to justify needed spending to prevent incidents from occurring in the first place.
Transformation Consternation
If you ask any company if they're doing digital transformation, the answer will be yes. If you ask whether the transformation is successful, the answer is likely to be different. About 70% of transformations fail to meet expectations. Why is that happening, and why are companies still going down this road where so many have failed before?
Digital transformation is not—or should not be—exclusively the purview of IT, but IT often shoulders a disproportionate amount of the blame if things go wrong. The technologies that are wrapped into transformation are the enablers of new ways of working, and are essential to the transformation journey. Being better prepared for transformation efforts can help IT—and others—avoid the all-too-common pitfalls that cause digital transformations to fail.
HDI 2023 Strategic Advisory Board
HDI
March 01, 2023
HDI is proud to support a Strategic Advisory Board comprised of industry thought leaders, practitioners and solution providers. We work with this board to:
• Keep closer tabs on customer insights and support center and service management market developments as they arise.
• Ensure our content offerings align with industry best practices and our products evolve at pace to serve the community.
• Grow industry relationships and our network.
HDI’s mission is focused on delivering smarter service and better business outcomes. This board helps us deliver on this mission and we value the contributions these experts make to the service and support industry.
Why Should You Be Using XLAs?
Happy Signals, Ltd.
September 13, 2023
By now, we should all be aware that XLA stands for Experience Level Agreement. In service and support, we've all seen SLAs – Service Level Agreements – intended to establish minimum requirements and define the measures and metrics for performance against the minimums. If the minimums aren't met, IT is said to be in breach of the SLA. But are minimum requirements enough?
ITSM Maturity Curve & Your Enterprise
Rezolve.ai
August 23, 2023
In my first article in this series, What ITIL Can and Cannot Do, I discussed the ITIL framework some of the misperceptions about it, and how it can assist organizations to produce good ITSM results if it is adopted and adapted. This article takes a wider approach than the first, examining the broader ITSM journey.
Tags: Business Strategy, IT Leadership, IT Strategy
What ITIL Can and Cannot Do
Rezolve.ai
June 15, 2023
This long article discusses the differences between ITIL and the broader term ITSM, and describes the value of a framework for service management. It also enumerates the kinds of things ITIL cannot do, despite many organizations' expectations. ITIL 4 is emphasized.
Eliminating Data Silos to Facilitate Transformation
Institute for Digital Transformation
April 13, 2023
Most businesses have the words data-driven somewhere on their website; it’s generally in their mission statement. To say it is one thing; achieving it is something else. In most enterprises, we see many individual department: Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Production, Research and Development, Quality Assurance, and so on. Each has its own suite of applications and associated data, so the amount of data collected and stored by the organization overall increases but is often splintered. As a result, the applications may enable the various business areas to work efficiently, but they also tend to create data silos.
Tags: Customer Experience, Emerging Technology, Business Strategy
Hello Sharing, Goodbye Silos: Why Sharing ITXM Feedback Is Important
Happy Signals, Ltd.
March 16, 2023
We (in IT) seem to be approaching our work as if the only thing that matters is the score, not the value we provide or the operations we enable. This needs to change, and here Roy Atkinson explores.
Tags: Customer Experience, Emerging Technology, Business Strategy
Eliminating Silos and Sharing Data
ITSM Tools
December 15, 2022
Almost every business has the words data-driven somewhere on its website or in its mission statement. To say it is one thing; achieving it is something else. When we look across most enterprises, we see many departments or lines of business: Human Resources, Information Technology, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Production, Research and Development, Quality Assurance, and so on. In most cases, each has its own suite of applications and associated data, and the amount of data collected and stored increases; so while the applications may enable these business areas to work more efficiently, they also tend to create data silos.
Tags: Customer Experience, Emerging Technology, Business Strategy
Why One Workforce Works and Delivering Amazing Customer Experiences
Verint
November 02, 2022
No matter which channel a customer chooses to contact a company, the response they receive represents the entire company. Consumers don’t differentiate between company departments, and they generally don’t care about internal processes, structures, or hierarchies. What’s more, they shouldn’t have to. The messages and responses they receive from a company should be consistently on-brand as well as consistently helpful. They are all part of the customer experience.
In practice, however, that kind of consistency is very difficult to generate and maintain, especially in our era of hybrid and distributed work models—not to mention the recent employee retention challenges we’ve seen throughout the US and other places around the world. These include “The Great Resignation” and the “Quiet Quitting” phenomena, popular topics in the media. Current conditions are exacerbating the Engagement Capacity Gap.
Introduction to Enterprise Service Management
InvGate
July 27, 2023
As we navigate the dynamic landscape of business today, Enterprise Service Management stands out as a transformative approach, shaping the future of efficient, customer-centric operations. The implementation of ESM fosters streamlined processes, enhanced collaboration, and, ultimately, increased customer satisfaction. We've designed this book to help you grasp the power of ESM. It's not just about the "what" and "how" of ESM, but also the "why." With the participation of industry experts, we delve into the real-world implications, the potential pitfalls to avoid, and the immense benefits to be reaped. If you're interested in optimizing your service delivery, our book “Introduction to Enterprise Service Management” is an invaluable resource.
Blueprint for Proactive Service Delivery and Support
EasyVista
November 30, 2021
The shift-left movement has helped IT teams of all sizes move from being cost-focused to value focused. But shift-left isn’t a "one size fits all" solution and in the next generation of service delivery, the shift-left tactics that worked in the past may not be what works in the future.
Without an effective shift-left strategy for proactive service management, you risk major downtime and loss in productivity. In fact, in an organization of 5,000 employees, IT teams could be losing over $5,224,223 every year due to lost productivity from unexpected IT incidents.
To help you create an effective and proactive service desk, this eBook by industry expert Roy Atkinson covers:
The benefits and pitfalls of shift-left
Tactics to reduce cost-per-ticket by going beyond traditional shift-left methods
How to go beyond problem management and shift-left with self-healing, self-service and proactive service management
And more!
Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management
Change Management Blueprint for Contact Center Digital transformation
NICE CXone
August 03, 2021
80% of businesses are fast-tracking digital transformation, but 70% of large-scale, complex change programs report falling short of their stated goals. The reason? Lack of preparedness.
In this eBook from prolific writer and ICMI influencer Roy Atkinson, you’ll discover how to transform people, processes, and technology to ultimately deliver better CX at your contact center.
Tags: Change Management, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
1 Book Chapter
Digital Transformation Demystified
World Scientific Publishing Company
November 11, 2022
Instead of providing you with the one “right” way to approach Digital Transformation, this book provides you with multiple distinctive techniques. Authored by Fellows of the Institute for Digital Transformation, led by Chief Scientist Dr. Frank Granito. Roy Atkinson is the author of the chapter on Customer Experience
The Big Bang - Generative AI and Service Management
SysAid Technologies
October 25, 2023
For years, IT has wished for better, faster ways to accomplish the repetitive work that is done every day to “keep the lights on” and resolve the issues end-users encounter. Automation has helped perform some of the tasks required. Rudimentary uses of AI have helped guide people to knowledge.
Now, generative AI—Artificial Intelligence that can create text, code, audio, images, video, and simulations—has burst upon the world. 2023 has seen amazingly rapid awareness and adoption of this technology in ways that were in the realm of science fiction until now.
What does this mean for Service Management? How can generative AI augment human workers inside and outside of IT to make our work lives better?
In this energetic and informative keynote, we’ll look at our world through the lens of this emerging technology that—while not without challenges—can help us accomplish things we barely thought were possible. The two galaxies, generative AI and Service Management, are coming together to form something new and exciting. And we are here to see it!
Keeping the End-User in End-User Experience
HDI Capital Area
March 17, 2023
Many managers and executives are still wary of basing decisions on experience. They are skeptical of using subjective criteria like expectations and perceptions when considering changes, improvements, and especially expenditures. If we stop for a moment to consider why an organization would make a certain change or purchase a certain product or service, however, the value of experience becomes apparent. Remember the famous statement by Steve Jobs: “You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.” If, however, we begin to believe we can control the experience, we are straying back into “inside-out” thinking, losing the human element. Listening to end-users and using a good IT experience management framework can keep the human factor in focus.
The Future Is Fast and Transformation Is Key
SysAid Technologies
October 05, 2021
In this engaging keynote, Roy Atkinson will explore how transformation is essential in order to make the next leap of speed in business, and how information technology is necessary to enable that transformation. The capabilities we call “IT” have never been more important. Without getting hung-up on buzzwords, Roy will discuss why speed has become so essential to business and what’s necessary to feed the need for speed, knowing that the thinking we are using now will not be adequate for the future.
Why Employee Experience Matters to IT
TriHDI - North Carolina
September 29, 2021
The term “Employee Experience” has recently become part of nearly every serious discussion of business improvement. Is it just another square on the Buzzword Bingo card, or is it important?
Information technology is an integral part of every organization, and every employee crosses paths with IT at one point or another in the course of their employment. Traditionally, the service desk measures satisfaction using CSAT or NPS scores after transactions and establishes Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Is that enough now that we live in the “Experience Economy”?
In this keynote presentation for TriHDI, Roy Atkinson will discuss:
• What is Employee Experience (EX)?
• How does it differ from Employee Satisfaction?
• Are SLAs enough? If not, then what?
• How—and what—should we be measuring?
• What do recent industry studies tell us about EX and IT?
Leading a Human-Centric Digital Transformation: Expert Insights from Roy Atkinson
CX Goalkeeper
September 25, 2023
Our guest, Roy Atkinson, is no stranger to the intricacies of digital transformation. As the CEO and Principal Advisor at Clifton Butterfield LLC, Roy advises businesses on customer experience, employee experience, and the appropriate technologies to improve both. His insights are not just theoretical; they are grounded in real-world examples that demonstrate the transformative power of digital technologies.
Tags: Business Strategy, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
Leading a Human-Centric Digital Transformation: Expert Insights from Roy Atkinson – E145
CX Goalkeeper
September 25, 2023
In a world where digital transformation is more than just a buzzword, it’s crucial to stay ahead of the curve. That’s why the latest episode of the CX Goalkeeper Podcast is a must-listen for anyone invested in business transformation, leadership, and customer experience.
Our guest, Roy Atkinson, is no stranger to the intricacies of digital transformation. As the CEO and Principal Advisor at Clifton Butterfield LLC, Roy advises businesses on customer experience, employee experience, and the appropriate technologies to improve both. His insights are not just theoretical; they are grounded in real-world examples that demonstrate the transformative power of digital technologies.
Roy Atkinson: All Things Considered CX
Bob Azman on Spotify
October 05, 2022
Roy Atkinson is one of the most recognized thought leaders in IT, service management, and customer experience, and serves as CEO, Clifton Butterfield, LLC, a business advisory practice. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation and a 2021 member of HDI’s Strategic Advisory Board. He is a prolific writer, speaker, webinar presenter, and podcaster as well as an industry analyst. He holds a masters certificate in advanced management strategy from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.
Digital Dialogue: Customer Experience - Heart of the Business
Institutefor Digital Transformation
August 08, 2023
In this Digital Dialogue, our guest experts discuss how Customer Experience (CX) can and should be the heart of a business, whether it’s B2C or B2B. How does the rapid rise of AI affect CX? What metrics and measures can demonstrate the power of CX? Do investments in CX have direct return on investment, or is it more complicated than that? You’ll come away with a better understanding of where focusing on CX can take your business.
Tags: Culture, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
Building High-Performance Teams Depends On...
HDI - Informa
May 04, 2023
Building high-performance teams requires more than teamwork; it takes a culture that prioritizes innovation and supports it with effective governance and quality assurance. It also requires commitment from every level of management to empower people to do and be their best. It doesn't happen overnight, but the benefits include an adaptable, resilient, highly competitive organization, improved employee retention, and the capability to innovate faster.
Everyone on this panel has "been there, done that." Bring your questions and get the answers you need to do the same in your organizations.
No Baffling Shenanigans (No B.S.): Outdated Support Strategies and Reasons to Drop Them!
Informa Tech
May 03, 2023
What are Baffling Shenanigans (B.S.)? They’re highly confusing, difficult to understand, tricky, or questionable practices or conduct, and they happen in companies around the clock!
We say NO B.S. to depreciable customer support responses, technologies, metrics, terminology, conduct, or practices. We stand by our desire to remove confusing, tricky, or questionable support practices by calling out absurdities and methods that no longer bring value to customer-centric organizations. Our four panelists will offer brilliant suggestions, meaningful future-forward advice, and meaty takeaways for your organizations.
Join Patti Blackstaffe and four leading experts – Angee Phong, Rae Ann Bruno, Greg Sanker, and Roy Atkinson – for a humorous look at the B.S. lingering in the technical support and service management industry. Take a step into our NO B.S. Zone!
Keeping the Customer First: Reengineering the Digital Organization to Better Serve Your Customers
The Customer Fest Show - India
March 04, 2021
Is there a need to re-engineer the Digital Organization to better serve customers? Who or what is the Chief Change Officer in organizations? Who / what does it need to be? Why? If we were to do a pre-mortem--an analysis that helps identify the causes of potential failure before failure occurs--what would be the single most critical factor coming in the way of building a successful Digital Organization?
Tags: Business Strategy, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
How to Use Metrics That Sustain Long-Term Relationships
ICMI
October 13, 2020
An examination of the ways contact centers can use metrics to improve performance and Customer Experience, moderated by Andrew Gilliam of ICMI and featuring Roy Atkinson and G. Todd Gladden.
Tags: Business Strategy, Customer Experience, Management
1 Speaker Award
eSpeakers Certified Virtual Presenter
eSpeakers
February 17, 2022
Event organizers are looking for speakers who can present in a virtual capacity. There’s a growing need for online presenters; experts who can deliver their message remotely, with impact, are highly valuable as we navigate these strange times.
If you want to set yourself apart from your colleagues and make it easier for hosts looking for an online speaker, you can gain the Certified Virtual Presenter badge and proudly display it on your website, email signature, online profile, and other marketing material.
Transformation Consternation
Informa Tech - HDI
November 14, 2023
If you ask any company if they're doing digital transformation, the answer will be yes. If you ask whether the transformation is successful, the answer is likely to be different. About 70% of transformations fail to meet expectations. Why is that happening, and why are companies still going down this road where so many have failed before?
Digital transformation is not—or should not be—exclusively the purview of IT, but IT often shoulders a disproportionate amount of the blame if things go wrong. The technologies that are wrapped into transformation are the enablers of new ways of working, and are essential to the transformation journey. Being better prepared for transformation efforts can help IT—and others—avoid the all-too-common pitfalls that cause digital transformations to fail.
In this session Roy Atkinson, a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation, will walk through the Institute's Readiness Framework as well as the Digital Transformation Manifesto, both of which can prepare organizations for the serious and difficult work of producing a successful transformation.
Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management
The Scary Holistic Cost of Incidents
Service Desk Institute
October 31, 2023
When IT measures the cost of incidents, it is usually in the form of Fully Burdened Cost per Ticket. While this metric does show how much the support organization is spending on its own operations in response to incident tickets, it does not show the costs to the organization as a whole.
In this session, we’ll walk through the factors that contribute to the costs of service interruptions from a more holistic perspective. While a bit frightening, the numbers can be useful in showing the value of a more stable, well-managed IT capability and also help to justify needed spending to prevent incidents from occurring in the first place.
Tags: Business Strategy, IT Leadership, IT Operations
The What, Why, and How of Digital Transformation
HDI - Informa Tech
November 12, 2022
Everyone is talking about Digital Transformation, but everyone seems to have a different idea of what it is. Using information from the Institute for Digital Transformation and other sources, we will explore a clear working definition of Digital Transformation and its goals, how organizations should prepare to transform, and how to measure the success of transformation efforts
Takeaways will include:
• How to assess the organization’s readiness for transformation
• Who needs to be involved
• Where to start
• Examples of the technologies that can enable new ways of working
• How to measure the success of transformation efforts
You will return to your organization with a clear understanding of what needs to happen and be able to contribute to the transformation effort.
Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Powering Up Your Organization with 21st-Century Knowledge Management
HDI - Informa Tech
May 18, 2022
In some ways, knowledge management and the maturing technologies of AI and machine learning (ML) are a perfect fit. AI and ML have voracious appetites for data and knowledge but are also quite good at identifying specific knowledge that someone is searching for.
In a 2019 study by HDI, the most common reasons for a knowledge management program not meeting an organization’s expectations are:
• We can’t get users to adopt it
• It’s a lot more work than we anticipated
Traditionally, we’ve built a portal, connected it to a searchable collection of articles and some FAQ, and expected users to find the answers to their own questions. Bringing AI and ML into the picture can help address these issues, making your knowledge program far more effective and efficient.
Takeaways
You will leave this session understanding:
• The relationship between knowledge management and AI
• How AI and ML can improve the availability and consumption of knowledge across the organization
• Why and how contextualized support can save time and effort for both customers and employees
• The kinds of tools that are readily available in the market
Digital Transformation in the Contact Center
ICMI
April 27, 2022
Digital technologies are what differentiates this transformation from other business initiatives, and they are keys to unlocking CX improvements as well as broadening the role of the contact center within the organization and reducing employee turnover. Digital initiatives can help companies make lasting improvements primarily because they lead to new ways of working. Rather than just cutting costs and asking teams to execute existing processes with fewer people, digital tools allow leaders to redesign processes from the ground up.
Consider the impacts of:
• Moving from IVR to IVA (Intelligent Virtual Agents)
• Increasing the use of cloud technologies
• Optimized self-service
• Machine Learning for QA
• Enhanced analytics
Contact centers are constantly taking the pulse of customers. Transforming the way organizations absorb and utilize customer interactions, feedback, and data can help accelerate business and increase profitability. This session will include industry research data and lessons from case studies.
Takeaways will include:
• A solid definition of what Digital Transformation really means
• How digital tools and technologies can fundamentally change the way you interact with customers
• The importance of re-skilling and up-skilling your staff
• Helping the whole organization transform
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
Customer Experience, Employee Experience, and Digital Transformation: Tools for Success
HDI - Informa Tech
November 06, 2021
Digital transformation means far more than buying new software or moving to the cloud. It means that there are fundamental changes to the work people do and how they do it, and that means changes to the way customers interact with your organization.
This session dives into the connections that exist among digital transformation (DX), employee experience (EX), and customer experience (CX) and shows you the measurements and tools you need to succeed.
Takeaways:
• A clear picture of what DX is really about
• The close relationship of EX and CX
• Metrics, measures, and tools you can put to use right away
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Schrödinger’s Service Desk: Why Emerging Technologies Are and Are Not the Future of Support
HDI Nebraska
June 24, 2021
Inside-out thinking fosters the misconception that the introduction of new technologies such as AI and Machine Learning will solve all problems, resolve all incidents, and make the need for the human service desk disappear. The application of technologies will not accomplish substantial change; substantial change is accomplished when thinking changes. IT is still stuck in the search for silver bullet solutions. This presentation lays out clear steps to correct the blind spots and produce better results and outcomes.
Tags: Digital Disruption, Emerging Technology, Future of Work
12 Webinars
"Where are we? Contact Center Insights at mid-Year 2023"
ICMI
August 23, 2023
We will look at some of the hard data ICMI surveys have gathered over the last year or so and talk about the implications of those numbers and how well they synch up with what we are hearing from clients, vendors, and our industry peers.
Delivering always-on IT: How to optimize operations, assets, and services
HDI
June 20, 2023
In an increasingly complex digital world, meeting and exceeding external and internal customers’ expectations requires consistent, proactive, and efficient IT service and support delivery aligned with business needs. Accelerating change, expanding competition and the requirements of a hybrid workforce all add complexity and increase pressure on your IT infrastructure and service and support teams.
Join ICMI, industry thought leaders Roy Atkinson, Stephen Paskel and Freshworks VP of Product Marketing David Flesh for an in-depth exploration of the challenges created by increasing IT and organizational complexity and the tactical and strategic steps required to meet those challenges.
You’ll gain practical, actionable insight into:
Addressing challenges associated with increasing IT complexity
Enabling IT teams to keep the business running with unified ITOM
Leveraging advanced IT operations tools to unlock collaboration across silos
Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
Measurement, Management and Money
BrightTalk
June 20, 2023
If you want to get the attention of senior executives in any organization, show them the money. How does money flow through the organization? Where is value added and lost? Those indirect costs are tough to pin down, but they're there - and you can find them. Traditional IT support metrics have been focused on IT itself, producing what many call inside-out thinking and vision. These days, businesses mistakenly believe that cutting IT spending is good and doing more with less saves money. But we can't improve what we don't measure, right?
You will learn: - The staggering costs of lost productivity we do not see - How siloed thinking limits our visibility into spending - How ITXMcan help break down silos and gain better understanding of spending
Coaching For the Win: How AI Makes Contact Center Coaching More Effective
Balto.ai
May 18, 2023
Balto’s research shows that managers spend 5x more time prepping for coaching sessions than they do actually coaching. On average, managers spend 2-3 hours preparing for each 30+ minute coaching session. This is a huge time commitment, and like ongoing preparation for athletes and musicians, coaching isn’t one-and-done.
Learn how artificial intelligence can help decrease the burden on managers and supervisors and improve contact center coaching effectiveness.
Beyond ITSM: Leveraging Service Management to Deliver Value Across Your Entire Organization
HDI - Informa Tech
December 13, 2022
As service management frameworks, concepts, and tools expand beyond the IT function, IT leaders and their teams play a critical role in helping define and explain the benefits of implementing a service-focused mindset across every business function. But it is important to recognize that service management is not a set of digital capabilities or a box of tools. It is a process of identifying and nurturing a chain of value-adding activities within and between different departments and functions to achieve well-defined business outcomes.
Blended Intelligence: Keys to Evolving from Contact Center to a True Customer Experience Center
ICMI
September 21, 2022
In this webinar, you’ll learn how contact centers are using blended intelligence to thrive in the new normal.
In more and more modern contact centers, simple “one-and-done” inquiries are handled by self-service, chatbots, customer-facing knowledge bases and other automated tools while agents handle with more complex cases. Creating a great CX requires contact centers to combine AI and other advanced technologies with agents’ creativity and problem-solving skills.
In this webinar you’ll learn how contact centers are using blended intelligence to thrive in the new normal. Our experts will provide examples of how self-service, automated triage, swarming, knowledge management, and real-time decision intelligence tools can accelerate resolutions and create a world-class experience for all of your customers.
The Connection Between Skills and Employee Experience
SkillsTx
August 16, 2022
One of the key positive aspects of employee experience is the opportunity to learn and grow. But how does an organization decide how to provide those opportunities without knowing what skills employees currently possess and which are needed for the next improvement?
Skills assessments and skills inventories are becoming increasingly important. Dynamic, self-organizing teams, organizational agility, and the velocity of change make a skills inventory increasingly important.
Tags: Business Strategy, Future of Work, Management
Creating the Business Case for EX-Driven Continual Improvement
Happy Signals, Ltd
July 25, 2022
Employee Experience (EX) as a driver for continual improvement
Improvement can be made everywhere and anywhere. Deciding when, where, and how to apply resources toward improvement can be difficult. A sound business case presents evidence for a particular course of action or investment with the best opportunity for positive results.
Using employee experience (EX) as a driver for continual improvement changes the equation. Now the improvements can be selected based on the positive or negative impact they have on the people who are consuming the service provided the proper measures are in place.
The Case for EX and ITXM Driven Continual Improvement
Boise ITSM Talks
June 28, 2022
Deciding when, where, and how to apply resources toward improvement can be difficult. How do you choose the course of action or investment with the best opportunity for positive results? Too often, improvements are internally selected, planned, and executed, strengthening silos and disconnecting IT from business goals. This approach tends to produce positive results for the service provider but may not positively affect the organization as a whole.
Using EX (employee experience) and specifically IT experience management (ITXM) as a driver for continual improvement changes the equation. Now the improvements can be selected based on the positive or negative impact they have on the people who are consuming the service, provided the proper measures are in place.
Key takeaways from this webinar will include:
• A clear definition of what EX (and ITXM) means and why it is important
• How an iterative, feedback-driven approach to continual improvement capitalizes on opportunities, decreases risks, and increases chances of success
• How to measure the success of your efforts
Tags: Business Strategy, Customer Experience, Future of Work
Beyond Shift-Left: The Next Era of Service and Support
EasyVista
April 21, 2022
The IT service desk has long sought to accomplish the difficult goals of lowering costs while increasing responsiveness and customer/user satisfaction. Shift-Left strategy came about in the efforts to accomplish these goals. Moving resolution capabilities to the lowest possible tier of support—including self-help (Tier 0)—by means of knowledge transfer is a widely used approach. In practice, shifting left has proved somewhat successful, but has encountered some unexpected pitfalls.
As the criticality and complexity of the IT environment continue to increase with cloud applications, decentralized IT, and remote or hybrid work, rapid resolutions are not enough. Interruptions impact productivity more than ever, and even good Problem Management isn’t keeping up. Optimization helps but is not enough.
This educational webinar will explore:
• How Shift-Left is supposed to work and why it sometimes doesn’t
• Why preventing interruptions is becoming even more important
• How emerging technologies will change the model
Tags: Business Strategy, Emerging Technology, Future of Work
Experience Is Everything: Using Real-Time Data to Optimize and Delight
HDI - Informa Tech
April 19, 2022
How and where tech support teams interact with internal and external customers and end users is constantly evolving – and creating new challenges – as organizations navigate a new normal. Customers/end users demand flexible access options and expect seamless, effective, and personalized interactions every time they contact your team. To meet those expectations, organizations are investing in hiring, training, and engaging tech support employees— and giving them the tools they need to deliver personalized support and solutions.
Tags: Business Strategy, Future of Work, Management
Digital Transformation: How to Overcome Operational Obstacles
ICMI
October 20, 2021
Customer expectations have changed and will continue to evolve, but the customer experience is still the single most important competitive differentiator – and fulfilling those expectations to succeed in the new digital world is essential. The pandemic may have accelerated digital adoption, even among those that had previously resisted it, but digital transformation is here to stay.
As the “digital front door” of the business, the contact center plays a pivotal role. In this webinar, Roy Atkinson and Annette Miesbach will provide essential guidance for overcoming common operational obstacles to digital transformation and successfully navigating the transition to a digitally transformed organization. Walk away with tips and tricks for:
Helping agents deal with complexity, avoid frustration, increase efficiency, and improve satisfaction
Ensuring your supervisors, managers, and workflow programmers have the tools and resources to manage a distributed workforce, a multitude of channels, and more discerning customers
Leveraging the right reporting and analytics to measure and understand the customer journey across channels (self-service and agent-assisted, inbound and outbound, digital and voice)
Tags: Change Management, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation
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