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SSPA NEWS Issue:
June 10, 03
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Service and Support Professionals Service SSPA NEWS HOMESSPA Corporate
SSPA Perspective Technology Spotlight Industry Articles
Industry Articles
Temporary Staffing – Today’s answer may be tomorrow’s problem
by John Dunleavy
Supplemental staff, contractors, temps, whatever you call them they are all the same in that these are people whom you have brought into your organization to get work done. Sometimes this is for a very tightly defined period of time but more often than not, what starts as a “couple of extra weeks” suddenly becomes a huge liability to your bottom line. What happened?

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Problem-Solving Success Tip
by Jeanne Sawyer, Ph.D.
Look for sponsors and solution owners rather than problem owners. Everyone participating in the situation owns the problem, like it or not—and nobody likes it. However, if one person is designated as the problem owner, that gives everyone else involved implicit permission to step away and essentially pretend that they don’t have an ownership role in the problem. In other words, appointing a problem owner gets in the way of solving a problem.

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Want To Expand Your Business? Try Walking Barefoot in the Grass!
by Diane Hughes
I hear it all the time. "I want to expand my business, but I don't know how." Many online small business owners have this challenge. In all actuality, it's not a business problem; rather a creativity problem.

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Survey Right: Innovative Survey Technology Controls Customer Touch Rules for Effective Enterprise-Wide Survey Deployments
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Jonathan Clay, Vice President, Technology- CustomerSat, Inc. Online feedback surveys and processes have greatly improved the ability of individual departments within an enterprise to efficiently survey its customers... The challenge in this proliferation of surveys is the lack of adequate controls to monitor the frequency rate of surveys sent to a single customer.

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How to Succeed in Delivering Customer-Centric Knowledge Management
by Rohit Joshi, Chief Content Officer- Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc. & Michael Devaney, Director of Technical Services- Enterprise Help Desk- CompuCom Systems Using advanced KM technology, information "silos" -- storehouses of FAQs, documentation, Web page content and knowledgebases -- are now beginning to speak with one voice. No longer are agents and customers having to sift through multiple and text-heavy resources to get the specific information they need.

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Question Of The Week

How do you handle price increases to your support maintenance?
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