As your organization moves toward enabling self-service technology, it is important to set clear implementation goals, metrics and timelines. This is the information and the planning you need to ensure your project is as successful as possible. The goals and metrics allow you to measure efforts while a timeline keeps you on track. If any...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: Implementation Goals, Metrics & Timelines"Read more
It’s easy to look at major enterprises with large-scale self-service technology projects and feel discouraged if you’re starting small. However, many benefits exist to slowly implementing self-service with a small pilot project that allows your organization to reflect and improve every step of the way. It’s important to start with something manageable and to celebrate...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: Starting Small and Celebrating Successes"Read more
We know that self-service technology offers empowerment to users — staff, contractors, students, parents, vendors, citizens, and anyone else using that technology. When done right, self-service ensures that people can do what they need, when they need to, in the way they want. Instead of staying tied up on the phone for a long time,...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: User Empowerment Case Examples"Read more
When self-service technology, including self-service portals (SSPs), first came on the scene, company executives thought of it only as a way to save money and time. Over time, however, SSPs came to be known as a way to empower everyone involved in them, from the user right on up to the CEO of the company....
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: User “Empowerment” Successes"Read more
Self-service technology can be used in the corporate world for a variety of functions, from allowing employees to update their payroll forms to allowing customers to submit help tickets. In addition to corporate employees, there are other organizations who can utilize this technology, including local and state organizations, schools and universities, non-profits, and all types...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: ROI at a Post-Grad Level"Read more
As customers gravitate toward self-service technologies, how can you be sure that you’re seeing a good return on investment (ROI)? It starts with understanding the benefits of self-service tech, then monitoring your chosen technology to ensure you’re getting those results. With a few more real-life examples, we’ll dig into some of the advantages self-serve brings....
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: ROI at a Grad School Level"Read more
Your organization can serve as many users as possible with self-service technology, with less reliance on human interaction. There will always be situations in which only a live agent can help, but in many cases, self-service technology is the ideal solution. Customers get what they need, quickly, and your organization seems a good return on...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: ROI at a College Level"Read more
There are obvious benefits when organizations can empower users to perform tasks that would otherwise fall to an employee. Organizations see a clear return on investment, which we will dive into in this series, but it’s important to know that users also benefit. To show you how return on investment (ROI) and user empowerment go...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment, for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: ROI for Beginners"Read more
If your organization is spending a lot of time addressing user requests, complaints, and needs, it may be time to invest in self-service technology. Self-serve technology empowers your users to find known solutions to problems, or direct issues to the right people within your organization. Over a series of 10 articles, we will show you...
"Enabling Self-Service Technology – Its ROI & Empowerment, for CFOs, CIOs & CTOs: a 10-Part Series"Read more
A student-run help desk based on campus is an excellent way to alleviate the burden on permanent IT staff while educating students with an interest in technology. With tech know-how and the practical experience that comes with running a campus support center, students will come away from their IT support roles with valuable skills and...
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