Main Conference: Day Two - Thursday, September 11, 2008
8:00
Continental Breakfast And Registration
9:00
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
9:15
Identifying Your Defining Metrics To Accommodate Customer Expectations
Marlene Bessette
Vice President Startegy & Customer Loyalty Xerox
Join Marlene as she highlights:
Evaluating internal and external support processes to identify areas of improvement
Identifying what substantiates the value for which your customers pay
Staffing an appropriate service and support environment based on qualitative feedback
Evaluating call routing response time and diagnosis to ensure escalation to the appropriate technician
Analyzing customer satisfaction: How quickly was the problem fixed, response time and parts management
9:55
Effectively Engaging Your Workforce: Focusing Career Development Into Your Talent Management Practices
Leticia Leinard Weidenhamer Cox Communications
10:55
Coffee & Refreshments In The Solutions Zone
11:35
Developing Innovative And Profitable Service Level Agreements
Phil Pietrowski
Vice President & GM, Worldwide Customer Support Services Lexmark International
Session highlights include:
Developing profitable SLA’s focusing on a total lifecycle support model versus a pay-per-service model
Ensuring the SLA’s reflect your customers’ critical performance objectives
Communicating the new SLA elements internally and ensuring the benefits are understood
Effectively managing lifecycle support SLA’s through performance metrics
Achieving customer satisfaction throughout the lengthy contract lifecycle to ensure you will be awarded the follow-up contract
12:15
Panel Workshop: Leveraging Key Metrics To Help Drive Increased Efficiency And Productivity In Customer Service
Marlene Bessette
Vice President Startegy & Customer Loyalty Xerox
Phil Pietrowski
Vice President & GM, Worldwide Customer Support Services Lexmark International
Gain best-practices in:
Identifying your top performing service initiative from a customer point-of-view, and evaluating the internal enablement that allows for that
Creating a successful benchmarking program with like-minded cross-industry service organizations
Effectively collaborating to share knowledge and data from sales to service reps
Consistently monitoring key performance indicators that generate revenue and shareholder value to ensure what’s getting measured, is getting done
12:55
Lunch
2:15
Identifying The Right Mobile Solutions For Your Organization And Managing A Successful Implementation & Post Launch Support
Stuart Nelson
Business Development Manager – Global Services General Binding Corp
The mobile workforce environment has grown with such a pace; keeping track of all the data in the field is no longer the only issue. Ensuring the appropriate amount of usage to prove a solid business case for the mobile workforce, and incorporating business benefits are all apart of improving business processes to reduce operating costs. In this session, Stuart shows you how you can do this in your organization.
Examining current practices within your organization and pinpointing areas for improvement
Gathering key data and feedback from all service teams
Identifying ways to leverage technology to improve the life of technician
Increasing field force efficiencies and back-office response time
Having a plan for continued enhancements to improve the tools