Best Practices for Service Offer Management
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Best Practices for Service Offer Management

Service offer managers are increasingly expected to deliver services revenue growth with a healthy margin. With a global pandemic accelerating the market toward customer-outcome-based offers, having a well-designed service portfolio is more critical than ever.As the industry shifts, supplier operating models continue to adapt. Suppliers are taking more responsibility for customer outcomes and offers must change as a result. It카지노 게임 사이트 no surprise that we카지노 사이트 킹덤™ve seen a rise in the importance of service offers and service portfolio management.

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Changing Economic Engines

Our target as offer leaders is an offer portfolio that is simple, standard, and scalable; a diverse portfolio of complete offers that deliver tangible value. Complete offers creatively bundle the value of technology, services, data, and analytics to fully solve a specific customer problem. That value becomes tangible when it can be measured.

Complete Offers and Tangible Value graph.
Complete Offers and Tangible Value Graph

Over the past year, 카지노 사이트's Service Offer Management research practice has focused its efforts on the foundational processes and most critical roles of service offer management. In a tumultuous time for the technology industry, we카지노 사이트 킹덤™ve seen pacesetter service offer leaders stepping up to their expanding roles and more assertively aligning charter across other 카지노 사이트. units around shared strategic goals. This results in deepening market awareness and a tightening of offer/market fit, often packaging a broad variety of services to address well-understood customer problems. Given service offer management카지노 게임 사이트 increasingly important role, here are four ways your team can optimize and improve how service offers function.  

1- Create a Formal Service Offer Strategy and Follow It

Service offer leaders often must start at the beginning, thoughtfully building out a new, formal service offer management process. It seems such a fundamental concept카지노 사이트 킹덤“follow a formal, documented process카지노 사이트 킹덤“and yet 카지노 사이트 data continues to demonstrate that service offer management process is informal and immature for many technology providers. Rigor around product management for technology solutions continues to evolve and deepen, while service offer management is often an afterthought in the 카지노 사이트. strategy.

Polling results for whether companies use formal, informal, or no processes for bringing in collaborative partners when designing service offers..
Service Offer Process Polling Results (Expand image)

2- Get to Know Your Market and Your Customers

Effective market discovery for service offers requires ongoing, creative ideation around customer 카지노 사이트. problems and KPIs. We often hear members report that Sales doesn카지노 사이트 킹덤™t understand the value of service offers, or they don카지노 사이트 킹덤™t know how to match a prospective customer to the best service offer for them.While we often can do better at sales enablement around service offer value propositions, the core issue is often that service offer leaders lack a detailed, segmented view of their target market and customer problems within that market. Service portfolios tend to be aligned to customer spend with a 카지노 사이트 킹덤œgood-better-best카지노 사이트 킹덤 spectrum of service package options. The typical naming conventions for service (especially Support) portfolios demonstrate that greater value realization is possible from a 카지노 사이트 킹덤œPlatinum카지노 사이트 킹덤 versus 카지노 사이트 킹덤œGold카지노 사이트 킹덤 package, but don카지노 사이트 킹덤™t necessarily identify the characteristics of customers who are more likely to thrive with one package versus the other. Some providers are having success with more descriptive service offer names, often focused on the maturity of the customer with their solution. Is the customer getting started? We can offer a starter package to get them to that first value realization. Are they starting to see value and want to accelerate deployment? We deliver a rapid growth package focused on solution adoption and expansion. Does the customer want us to manage their 카지노 사이트. challenge directly, with all necessary services provided in line with industry best practices? We deliver robust managed service offerings. As service offer leaders tap into deeper insights about market requirements, they unlock more specific value propositions that can be communicated concisely in Sales and Marketing plays. 카지노 사이트 recommends a broad range of market discovery activities, including structured customer interviews and the active participation of customer advisory boards. In our workshops with members we help offer teams develop deeper market insights primarily through two creative brainstorming processes: outcome engineering and service offer journey mapping:

  • Outcome engineering is a vital tool to use in documenting how offers add value within customer workflows, as measured by customer KPIs.
  • Service offer journey mapping remains critical as offer leaders envision the next evolution of service offers. If you카지노 사이트 킹덤™re unfamiliar with journey mapping, a great place to start is by reviewing our 카지노 사이트 킹덤œHelping Customers Succeed카지노 사이트 킹덤 research report (focusing on pages 6 through 9.)    Many companies perform broad customer lifecycle journey mapping; this is a useful strategy but typically leaves the service offer leader short of the detailed insights they need to spot the service consumption patterns. 카지노 사이트 advocates a variant of this process that segments existing customers based on their success realizing value with existing offers. Working closely with service portfolio leaders and their service delivery, sales, and marketing peers, we use offer journey mapping to identify new buying/influencing personas, new opportunities to add or reinforce value, and specific customer KPIs that we might influence to justify the return on investment in our solutions.
Bar Graph charting value realization.
Stages of Service Offer Journey Mapping

3- Simplify Offer Portfolios Using 카지노 사이트 Convergence

As an industry, we tend to produce massively complex service offer price lists. Technology providers tend to emphasize customer choice versus portfolio simplicity, often resulting in customized offers that require significant go-to-market effort just to structure the right offer for each customer. Not simple, not standard, not scalable. One solution is for service offer leaders to embrace the trend toward services convergence to reduce portfolio complexity. In the paper 카지노 사이트 킹덤œPrimer on 카지노 사이트 Convergence,카지노 사이트 킹덤 카지노 사이트 provided the following definition:

카지노 사이트 Convergence: The merging of previously independent service lines into organizational structures that improve the customer experience and reduce the cost to deliver.

It is a fundamental challenge for the service portfolio leader to maintain balance between customer choice and portfolio complexity; to develop creative multi-service packages/bundles aligned to the 카지노 사이트. problems of well-understood customer personas. As service offer leaders document their customers카지노 사이트 킹덤™ workflows and identify the customer metrics their offers influence, they no longer have the luxury to apply service delivery capabilities from only one service line to the customer problem. They must increasingly exit operational silos to package a diverse set of service deliverables into new standard offers.

4- Keep an Eye on Ways to Monetize Customer Success

Using service convergence, Customer Success offers are demonstrating that creatively bundled service packages drive customer adoption and consumption of value. However, monetizing Customer Success remains a challenge, with just under half of the customer success portfolios in-market being monetized. Customer Success leaders are struggling to fund delivery operations that often operate at a loss; monetizing their offer portfolio is the most straightforward funding method. But, as mentioned previously, many companies are struggling to formalize their process of taking these Customer Success offers to market.

Smart Tip: Embrace Data-Driven Decision Making

Making smart, informed decisions is more crucial than ever. Leveraging 카지노 사이트- in-depth insights and data-driven frameworks can help you navigate industry shifts confidently. Remember, in a world driven by artificial intelligence and digital transformation, the key to sustained success lies in making strategic decisions informed by reliable data, ensuring your role as a leader in your industry.

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Next Steps for Creating Compelling Service Offers

카지노 사이트 continues to focus research on monetizing Customer Success offerings; this will be a key topic of discussion at our upcoming Technology and 카지노 사이트 World (TSW) Conference.

At TSW, Service Offer Management experts will present research and tangible strategies to help service offer leaders navigate these industry transformations. The role of service offer and portfolio management has never been more complex or more important. 카지노 사이트- Service Offer Management research practice helps service offer leaders identify and build the pacesetter practices they need to create tangible, differentiated service offers and manage them within a diverse portfolio of outcome-based offers.

To learn more about TSW and how it can help you monetize your service offer portfolios, explore the TSW Conference page or reach out to get more information.

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