Best Practice Report

As Customer Sherpas, Success Managers Are Key To A Customer-Obsessed Strategy

B2B Organizations Should Ensure They Empower Their Customer Success Teams To Deliver Empathy And Value

December 17th, 2021
Amy Bills, VP, Principal Analyst
Amy Bills VP, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Rick Parrish , Caroline Robertson , Lisa Nakano , Miriam ElKorchi

Summary

Customer success managers work on the front lines of B2B post-sale customer engagement, managing account health, ensuring the customer derives value from the offering, and setting the stage for retention and expansion. As such, they have ample opportunity to play a direct role in their company’s evolution toward becoming completely customer obsessed. This report identifies specific areas of focus and recommends actions to ensure you optimize the customer success function to help your company achieve growth, retention, employee engagement, and the other benefits of customer obsession.

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