Self-Service & Assisted Service

  • Building Interactive Feedback into Your Products and Surrounding Services

    How Koko Fitness Enables Four Kinds of Interactive Feedback

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    How could your company benefit from building data gathering and interactive feedback into the products and services you offer? Learn how from Koko Fitness.
    Nov. 16, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Sovereign Bank

    Limited Supported for Key Activities and an Implementation that Needs Significant Improvement

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    In this customer self-service test-drive report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at Sovereignbank.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios.
    Nov. 2, 2006
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  • Customer Innovation Guide: Five Roles Your Customers Should Be Playing

    How Engaged Are Your Customers in Shaping the Future of Your Business?

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    This guide explores the five different roles that customers can play and companies can leverage to become an outside innovation organization.
    Oct. 11, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Apple

    Help Yourself to Perform a Wide Range of Customer Service Activities through a Great UI

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    In this customer-self-service test-drive report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at Apple.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios and evaluating that experience against our framework.
    Sep. 28, 2006
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  • Landscape Forms’ Use of GE ColorXpress® Services Customer Innovation Center for a New Product Launch

    Launching a New Product Line Based on Customers’ Input

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    Landscape Forms, an industry leader for the design and manufacturing of outdoor site furniture, worked hand-in-hand with GE ColorXpress® Services Customer Innovation Center experts to help create a bold new product line.
    Sep. 28, 2006
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  • Self-Service Resolution: Cable TV Companies

    Comparing Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon Search Experiences

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    The search experiences at five cable TV companies, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon are compared in light of a problem resolution scenario.
    Sep. 21, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Comcast

    Limited Support for Key Self-Service Activities, FAQ-Centric Content, Poor Search

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    In this report, I de-scribe my experience in helping myself to customer service at comcast.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios and evaluating that experience against our customer self-service framework.
    Sep. 7, 2006
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  • Customized, Built-to-Order Products

    Solutions that Are Configured by Me and Built for Me

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    When you enable mass customization, you’re designing all of your product development and manufacturing processes from the customers’ point of view—from the outside in.
    Aug. 10, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Verizon

    Excellent Support for Key Self-Service Activities

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    In this customer self-service test-drive report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at verizon.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios.
    Aug. 10, 2006
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  • Customer Self-Service at Verizon Wireless

    Support for a Wide Range of Customer Service Activities; Limited Problem Diagnosis and Search

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    In this report, I describe my experience in helping myself to customer service at verizonwireless.com by performing key activities of self-service Customer Scenarios and evaluating that experience against our framework for customer self-service.
    Jul. 27, 2006
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  • Let Customers Help Themselves

    Offer Self-Service throughout the Customer Lifecycle

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    The fifth critical success factor originally introduced in Customers.com is “Let Customers Help Themselves.”
    Jun. 1, 2006
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  • Koko Fitness

    Discovering Baby Boomers’ Health and Fitness Issues

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    Koko Fitness is a new start-up company that was designed from the outside in—starting with customers’ desired outcomes.
    Apr. 13, 2006
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  • National Instruments

    A 30-Year History of Enabling Customer Innovation

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    National Instruments fosters customer-driven innovation in many ways.
    Apr. 6, 2006
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  • Lessons in Customer Service

    My Blackberry Experience with Verizon and Verizon Wireless

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    This report is a case study of my experience selecting, purchasing, installing, and using a BlackBerry, with communication services and customer service provided by Verizon Wireless and Verizon Wireless and billing by Verizon.
    Mar. 9, 2006
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  • Getty Images

    Making It Easy for Image-Buying Professionals to Do Their Jobs

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    Getty Images supports image-buying professionals in finding and licensing stock imagery and film for commercial use.
    Dec. 8, 2005
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  • Customer Service Tool Kit

    Developing Your Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Customer Service & Self-Service and Support Search Initiatives

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    PSG Tool Kits help you identify requirements and make the right decisions.
    Nov. 14, 2005
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  • Branded Customer Service

    Barlow and Stewart Promote a Strong Linkage between Brand and Customer Service

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    This book educates you about the differences between on-brand and off-brand customer service delivery.
    Sep. 29, 2005
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  • Survey: How Companies Apply Software to Improve Customer Service

    Companies Want to Deliver an Effective Customer Experience for Customer Self-Service

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    In March through May of this year, we surveyed 194 business and technology managers to identify the business and technology drivers behind customer service.
    Sep. 1, 2005
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  • Knova Self-Service V.6: Self-Service and Support Search Solution

    Advanced Linguistics, Auto Classification, and Ontology

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    Knova Self-Service V.6, a solution for resolution management on customer support Web sites, incorporates a search engine that stacks up well against our self-service and support search solution evaluation framework.
    Jun. 13, 2005
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  • Nurturing Customer Loyalty in the B2B World

    Know and Nurture Your Internal Advocates

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    We spend a lot of our time these days working with the customer advocacy and customer experience teams at large software and systems companies.
    May. 26, 2005
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