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
I would think your $ value would be calculated by a few factors. 1. How much would it cost to train and hire NOC guys that do what you do today vs. using outsourced support for those issues or going to a higher level team. 2. How much longer would SLA affecting problems take to solve without y

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