Dec
13
2018
An organisation's culture is deeply embedded in the roots of how things get done and why. It’s wrapped into value, goals, attitudes and more. Once the roots are established it’s hard almost impossible to unlearn those values, what’s acceptable. It takes...
Nov
07
2018
Welcome back, we are continuing our series on SIAM challenges - this week we're focusing on Strategy or the lack of it. This mini blog is published in 2 sections; this is 1 of 2 on Strategic challenges.
There are...
Aug
07
2018
Part 2
Tenders, Proposals and Bid Management are all part of an organisations Sales pipeline and business processes. It’s one of the elements of bringing in business. It is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide. Organisations today outsource services as a...
Aug
07
2018
The journey of IT has been fascinating over the years, from ad-hoc IT shop to a sophisticated, complicated service delivery organisation. Some of us are doing this well and others struggling. Some are still stuck in the process world,...
Feb
12
2018
Our last blog focused on Customer & Service excellence, competencies and skills. But how do you actually build this? It does help if you and your leadership team have excellent customer service skills yourselves. Your other options are to...
Jan
18
2018
How does one build and maintain Service Excellence into their organisations? I wondered after a series of unfortunate customer service experiences from significant brands, please see my previous posts.
Service Excellence has to be part of the DNA of the...
Dec
20
2017
How to deal with Angry Customers
Last week and a few weeks ago we focused on “What is good customer service? “ we wrote some tips about the training required and other things to consider when hiring and training staff...
Dec
08
2017
Today’s blog is looking at Customer service as our continuing theme. Last week we looked at poor service as a result of lacklustre culture and leadership team. Today we are focusing on some customer service fundamentals and principles.
Definition -...
Aug
21
2017
Today organisations are transforming something within their business and IT shops and it’s generally along the lines of a SIAM implementation, digital or an ERP, or cloud service, etc. Everyone is doing something different today to be competitive in...