Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-15 Thread William Herrin
On Feb 14, 2013 12:58 PM, "Kasper Adel" wrote: > We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, > trying to put a $ value on the support we give to > our NOC and other implementation teams, > when they email us about problems they face. Hi Kasper, Support is about customer retention. Yo

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-15 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
ll learn and benefit from the experience. Dave -Original Message- From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com ] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:16 PM To: Andrew Latham Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Quantifying the value of customer support I used to think that these kind of situations take p

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-15 Thread Kasper Adel
ers, everyone > will learn and benefit from the experience. > > Dave > > -Original Message- > From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com ] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:16 PM > To: Andrew Latham > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Quantifying the value of cus

RE: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Siegel, David
16 PM To: Andrew Latham Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Quantifying the value of customer support I used to think that these kind of situations take place when a manager was never an engineer so he does not understand how things work but i was surprised when i faced these from managers with an in

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Feb 14, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hello, > > We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a $ > value on the support we give to our NOC and other implementation teams, > when they email us about problems they face. But we are merely bits and > bytes engine

RE: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Naslund, Steve
X project would have cost this much and taken this much longer. Bottom line is what is the cost of NOT having you. Steven Naslund -Original Message- From: Kasper Adel [mailto:karim.a...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:52 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Quantifying the value of c

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
I used to think that these kind of situations take place when a manager was never an engineer so he does not understand how things work but i was surprised when i faced these from managers with an intense engineering career so i gave up on trying to give conceptual excuses and want to just give the

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Goldbard
Hey, So usually this is done by the business unit leaders. At AT&T people used to call it "pushing the wastebasket". The idea is that each department runs as a separate business and in order to evaluate the business you debit and credit departments as if they were counterparties in a trade. Som

Re: Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Latham
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hello, > > We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a $ > value on the support we give to our NOC and other implementation teams, > when they email us about problems they face. But we are merely bits and > bytes eng

Quantifying the value of customer support

2013-02-14 Thread Kasper Adel
Hello, We are a 2nd level of escalation in a service provider, trying to put a $ value on the support we give to our NOC and other implementation teams, when they email us about problems they face. But we are merely bits and bytes engineers that cant quantify and justify the value of what we do to