Customer Experience Initiative
Delivering on service excellence involves shifts in perspective, strategy, culture, and leadership.
Consortium Members are working on a touch point model and desired outcomes, as well as techniques for understanding and improving the customer experience.
Definition of Service Excellence:
Maximize customer realized value through the use of our products and services.
Public Resources
- Customer Success Initiative Team Meeting – 3 minute video summary
- Strategy for a Global Support Experience – 2 minute video summary
We aim to reduce value erosion and maximize value addition by exploring:
This initiative used to be named the “Customer Success Initiative.” It was updated to reflect a broader scope and to distinguish it from the discipline of Customer Success.
Social Networks, Communities, & Support
The Customer Experience Initiative includes the work Consortium Members have done around the intersection of support and social media.
When integrated correctly into the service strategy, social can be a powerful knowledge-sharing tool.
Members have developed the following tenets of social and support:
- Monitor, Listen, and Learn
- Let Social Support Social
- Improve, Inform and Influence
See Social Networks, Communities, and Support for more details.

Member-Only Resources
If you are a Consortium Member and need login assistance, please contact support@serviceinnovation.org.
- Customer Success Initiative on the Members-only wiki (login required)
Three Types of Demand
- Assisted Support
- Customers want to talk to the vendor
- Phone, chat, email, click to submit case
- Support center, support analysts respond
- Self-Service
- Customers use automated service tools, help integrated into the product or a web based portal/KB
- Communities and Social
- Customers want to interact with other users
- Ask, respond, comment, rate, vote
- Online forums, ideastorms, blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

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