The Veterans Administration (VA) has come under much scrutiny over the past few months for poor customer service and long wait times for healthcare. At one point, the current Secretary of the Veterans Administration Robert McDonald compared the long wait times for veterans to the lines at a Disney amusement park: “What really counts is, how […]
Read MoreI spent last week in Las Vegas at Aspect’s annual ACE conference. Of course, today I’ll only be discussing the conference here. Because, as we all know, everything else “stays in Vegas.” But I will say I got enough time to place third in a poker tournament. I digress. Customer service via messaging applications was […]
Read MoreWe’ve all seen them – those sales presentations stuffed with graphs, spreadsheets and charts that portend that all you need to do is sign a contract, and you’ll ascend to great heights as the financial savings hero within your company. Now I’ll ask the rhetorical question, “Have those promised savings ever really been found?” I […]
Read MoreOne of the benefits of being a small company is that you can define your own path in the marketplace and focus on a niche that suits your culture. As the founder of MicroAutomation, I have always been customer-focused and have tried to cultivate that same passion with my staff. The road has been difficult, […]
Read MoreNow that we are firmly a part of the Information Age, we are drowning in well-meaning, number-driven movements like big data, analytics and business intelligence. As a result of this unrelenting surge of data from the floodgates, however, I find that many of my customers don’t know what to do with all of the information […]
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