Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

A lot of companies, and their underlying departments, face growing pains as they build on their success and establish themselves as true organizations. As product offerings and capabilities expand, departments and teams start to field wider ranges of requests for work, and this can lead to people specializing in order to build efficiency. Sometimes these requests can come from other teams at the same company even.

Customer operations refer to customer-centric business functions like sales and service which extend support to the customer. These were earlier perceived to be a cost center, but that notion has changed over the past decade. Customer operations are now regarded as the Swiss army knife of business operations. This is largely due to the fact that it supports several core business functions such as Sales, Marketing, Branding, and Product Development.