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Customer Service Transformation: Embracing the B2B Service-Driven Era

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.

Navigating the Path to B2B Customer Service Excellence

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.

Freshworks CIO on generative AI's impact on service management

The disruptive nature of generative AI in business is becoming apparent. We sat down to chat with Prasad Ramakrishnan, chief information officer (CIO) at Freshworks, to understand how he believes generative AI will impact and transform the service management industry. Here’s what he has to share with CIOs on how generative AI can be leveraged to improve employee experience and agent productivity.

Top 8 change management models: a comparison guide

With how fast industries move, technologies advance and current events shift, organisational change is now a normal part of doing business. But change is rarely easy. And the bigger and more complex a business is, the more challenging it is to implement change effectively. Yet the ability to incorporate necessary changes into how you do business plays a direct role in long-term success.

9 Help Desk Migration Mistakes You Need to Avoid

Help desk migration mistakes can be costly and disruptive. Organizations increasingly seek for more advanced help desk solutions as they grow in size or complexity, and the process of transitioning from one platform to another becomes a critical endeavor. However, without proper planning and awareness of potential pitfalls, it can quickly turn into a nightmare of data loss, operational inefficiencies, and frustrated customers.

Streamlining Application Releases With ITSM Release Management

In today’s world of ever-evolving technology, IT Service Management (ITSM) Release Management is one of the most important tasks for any business. It ensures that the latest software and hardware updates are released in a timely manner, allowing businesses to stay competitive and up-to-date in their respective industries.

Support Ticket Lifecycle: How To Take Control

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.

10 Tips to Manage a Help Desk - Workload Management, Motivation, And More!

Properly learning how to manage a help desk is crucial for the success of any organization, both internally amongst its different departments, and with external customers. Smoothly operating one is no easy ride; it requires juggling multiple tasks and coordinating diverse teams.

Help Desk Ticket Workflow: How to Improve and Optimize

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.

A Guide to Incident Management Ticketing Systems

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.