For scaling enterprises that have internal support (IT) or client facing (Sales & Customer Support) teams that live in Slack, it’s almost certain that you’ve identified a problem with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)—causing reduced productivity and a backlog for your service team. Most likely, you have enacted a number of…
How to create a Jira Service Desk (JSD) ticket directly from Slack
If your company is like many modern growing enterprises, employees use a messaging platform, like Slack, for nearly all of their internal communication. Moreover, Slack has become the defacto platform for sharing knowledge, asking questions and seeking support. So, it only makes sense that your IT support team lives and…
How to migrate from Microsoft Teams to Slack
Ok, so you’re ready to break up with Microsoft Teams and you’re committed to transitioning to the wonderful world of Slack. But what shall become of all of the messages, files and history that you’ve invested in that platform? Think of all the knowledge you’ve shared, the memes, the answers…
3 ways to increase productivity and reduce noise in Slack
If you’re like us at Obie.ai, then 90% of your workplace communication occurs in Slack. Living in Slack is kind of the new normal for most modern companies, but things can get out of hand quickly unless you set some ground-rules for fair and constructive use. Here are a few…
Designing your support desk to maximize ticket deflection
Ticket deflection is when a customer service or IT helpdesk ticket is avoided by way of a self-serve help mechanism. This means that an employee will be able to solve their own issue without requiring the intervention of a support professional or a service ticket being created. By allowing your…
Optimizing Slack for support desks to maximize ticket deflection
After surveying hundreds of IT and HR service desks, Spoke found that when employees are given the option, people will submit 70% of their requests through Slack. If you, as an IT Manager, People-ops professional or Customer Support Manager in a Slack-powered organization are surprised by this statistic, it could…
New Year’s Resolutions for IT, Customer Success and People-Ops Managers
Many of us use the changing of the calendar to make positive adjustments in lifestyle. Whether it’s getting more exercise, quitting smoking or making an effort to live life to the fullest, a new year’s resolution is an opportunity to make a change to be the best version of yourself.…
The role of AI in IT Support and Customer Success
Are you seeing a pattern in your customer service calls or at your internal IT help desk? What do those patterns look like? How do these patterns impact your internal and external SLAs? What strategies have you tested to fix the problem? What worked and what didn’t? You might be…
Should you create an internal corporate wiki to store knowledge?
Wiki has emerged as a ubiquitous term for internet-based knowledge. So many people use this as a term to describe knowledge stores across use-cases. Often, the term wiki gets dragged into corporate settings when really it has no place for companies of any material scale. Great for TV series… not…
Fixing Frequently Asked Questions in Slack
A show of hands if you’ve never seen this in your Slack workspace before… Nobody? Shocking… When Slack was born, it was a watershed moment for frequently asked questions just like this. It gave them a new home and IT Managers and Support Teams rejoiced with a nice tidy new…