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  • People, Processes and Standout Service Experiences
    Customer service is a crucial part of the customer experience. That seems immediately obvious. And customer experience is the big buzzword right now, so companies are going bonkers revamping their customer service operations. Right? Would that it were so. Almost paradoxically, many businesses are still stuck in the mode of tweaking with utterly defective customer service processes.


  • Federal Cloud Adoption, Part 2: Raining Contracts
    The U.S. government's pursuit of cloud-based technology has been characterized by a blizzard of policies, directives, technical studies, proposed contract vehicles and conferences. The federal "cloud first" initiative, requiring agencies to give priority consideration to cloud solutions for IT operations, began in December 2012. Now, an idea of how much business is at stake for IT vendors has surfaced -- and it's impressive.


  • The Rise of Open Source
    SugarCon, the SugarCRM user meeting held in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, did some important things for Sugar. It was a coming out party of sorts for a company with a distinct business model and strategy, namely open source. It was also validation of that strategy and, for many, a new realization of what open source means.



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Key Findings

In a study published in Harvard Business Review, “Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers” (July 2010) by Matthew Dixon, Karen Freeman, and Nicholas Toman, found that top loyalty eroding problems include:

· 56% report having to re-explain an issue

· 57% report having to switch from the web to the phone

· 59% report expending moderate-to-high effort to resolve an issue

· 59% report being transferred

· 62% report having to repeatedly contact the company to resolve an issue