The last thing startup founders want to think about is knowledge management. It’s way less exciting than shipping new products and features. It’s way less sexy than perfecting that design and brand. It’s most certainly way less exciting than fundraising and negotiating a term sheet. But, consider these situations that…
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Why Slack search isn’t enough for customer success teams
Chances are, your customer success team spends a good amount (probably a majority) of their day in the modern work operating system, Slack. The reason so many teams rely on the Slack platform for this purpose is because it is a tool that enables customer issues to be resolved faster…
Zendesk, Confluence, Google Drive… where is the answer to customer support issues again?
A well equipped and knowledgeable customer support team creates successful, happy customers. To achieve this coveted level of satisfaction, your support team must have access to product and support documentation at their fingertips so that they have the tools to deliver on this goal. As companies scale, this becomes increasingly…
Top 3 signs you helpdesk is ready to enable self-serve support
Your company has a very busy support helpdesk. Tickets volumes are high. Support agents are backlogged. Your team budget feels stretched. Are these signs telling you something? Maybe it’s time to open a self-service channel for your employees. It’s hard to know when the right time is to launch such…
Why self-serve support and Slack go hand-in-hand
Companies that depend on a centralized body of knowledge to propel productivity know that you can build a robust, comprehensive, validated and accurate body of knowledge to power self-serve support, but if you don’t make it easy to access where people work, it will collect dust. For this reason, knowledge…
How to accelerate DevOps teams by bringing knowledge to Slack
Slack is redefining internal workflows by establishing itself as the operating system of the modern workplace. As more productivity tools continue to invest in deeper and deeper integrations with the Slack platform, they solidify it’s status at the nucleus of operations. This of course, extends to knowledge management, and Slack’s…
Why knowledge management is a mission critical integration for the DevOps workflow
DevOps has captured the imagination of an entire generation of tech professionals with its irresistible allure and promises of hyper-efficiency and highly. But what is Devops exactly? We love the definition that Alessandro Diaferia shared in a recent blog and his Twitter account: Practically speaking, DevOps is a term that…
Turning your Confluence workspace into a robust self-service support tool
Confluence is a popular choice for many teams that are looking for a tool to centralize organizational documentation. Popularized by technical teams, Confluence is now finding a home in more teams including customer support and HR/People-ops. What is internal self-serve support? Internal self-serve support is when when employees can solve…
How IT can leverage AI for streamlined support
The average IT support ticket takes three calendar days to resolve. Bhavin Shah, CEO of Moveworks In the ITSM realm, there are recurring themes that cause frustratingly long backlogs in support queues and, as a result, increase departmental overhead costs to undesirable levels. Not surprisingly, IT department managers seek cost-saving solutions to…
Do your employees waste too much time and lose productivity searching for and sharing knowledge, documents and files at work?
51% of employees avoid sharing documents because they can’t find them or it would take too long to do so. Igloo 2020 State of the Digital Workplace report This statistic highlights that there are some key failures in the tools and processes chosen for communication and collaboration by organizations. Employees…