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“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.” Alvin Toffler. One of the many user groups touched by an OSS (directly or indirectly) is the field work-force. The field work-force have to deal with hazards that most of us desk-jockeys don’t come into contact with. Confined spaces, hazardous materials (eg […]
C Spire Selects Centina Systems for Strategic Service Assurance. Centina Systems announced that C Spire™ will deploy its NetOmnia™ suite of solutions for service assurance. This will include real-time end-to-end network visibility for improved troubleshooting and problem resolution. C Spire is a full service provider of Internet, telecommunications, and network services. The company offers Triple […]
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” Francine Jay. A few questions for all the vendors out there. Do you know which applications within your suite that your customers actually use? Do you know which features of these applications they use? Do you know which features […]
“The more you engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing.” John Russell. You must be wondering whether the heading above is a typo? It’s not. Let me explain. This is the fifth post in my Customer Experience series. The previous four have been […]
“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.” Larry Bossidy. In a recent post, I spoke of the challenge in getting the right balance between two scarce assets, customers and human resources. This got me […]
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest […]
Comverse Selected by Telekom Srbija to Modernize, Virtualize & Introduce IP Messaging, New Rich Services. Comverse announced that Telekom Srbija, the region’s leading mobile service provider, serving Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, has selected Comverse to modernize its messaging platforms, enable IP Communication, and lay the foundation for monetizing future rich communication services (RCS). […]
“When you translate a dream into reality, it’s never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.” Shai Agassi. After Contract Negotiations, the second post in this Customer Experience series, today’s post discusses the next step, when the project moves into the implementation phase. The customer experience during the implementation stage basically […]
“Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.” Ralph Steadman. To expand upon the first post in this Customer Experience series, which was on Product Evaluation, today’s post relates to the next step, forming a contract between the customer and the winning bidder. The customer experience during the contract negotiation stage basically revolves around suspicion. […]
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“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation” Vannevar Bush. In the Christmas Day blog, I indicated that I was going to begin a series on how OSS vendors / integrators can start with the customer experience and work back to improve their […]
“The biggest threat to McDonald’s lies within – and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.” Charlie Bell. How many of you could make a better burger than McDonalds? Chances […]
“Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.” Michael LeBoeuf. When a vendor is seeking growth (and that’s most!), they focus on building up a strong customer base. As Michael LeBoeuf states above, an OSS vendor’s greatest asset is its customers because of their relative scarcity. It makes sense […]
Comptel Has Won a New Telefonica Group Customer in Chile. Comptel’s Fulfillment deal is a part of the Telefonica de Chile Quad-Play transformation project that will enable improved customer experience for integrated wireline, wireless, Internet and TV services. With the Telefonica de Chile deal Comptel enters a new market in South America. The order value exceeds 1.2 […]
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” Ronald Coase. A subscriber to this blog named Paul recently asked a very thought-provoking question in relation to the context of data within this earlier post. He asked whether by “context” I meant that you come at the data with a question in mind that […]
“The most common thing that pegs an entrepreneur as an amateur is when they come in and immediately start talking about their amazing new technology, and forget to start the discussion with, “What big problem in the market am I trying to solve?” If they don’t start with the problem, then I know they are […]
“Upstream marketing focuses on innovation. It tries to answer two questions: where the market is moving and what customers will want next.” Scott Thompson here on Chron.com. As indicated in yesterday’s post, I have a series of posts coming up shortly that will look at the customer experience and how OSS might look at doing […]
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” Thomas S. Monson. Don’t worry, I’m not actually writing about OSS on our Christmas Day holiday […]
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche. A recent post posed the question, “have you noticed that the more technically proficient your customer is, the more likely you are to receive their specifications as “required solutions” rather than requirements?” To put this another way, the customer is […]
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Harry S Truman. In recent blogs, “Data Architecture Levels” and “Testing Architecture Levels,” the need for contextually relevant data has been mentioned. One of the other areas where contextually relevant data is essential, but very often ignored, is in training delivery. For the purposes […]
