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4. “Customer Success is when your customers
achieve their Desired Outcome through their
interactions with your company.”
Lincoln Murphy (Customer Success Evangelist)
10. The challenges Alfresco faced were clear…
Inconsistent performance
Reactive
Pure renewals
No real understanding of customer
health
Challenges
11. Alfresco had clearly defined goals
Health score baseline and improvement
Leverage technology and managing
success plans and scale
Establish proactive tasks for
consistency and efficiency
Goals
12. We approached our implementation with a focus on balancing
simplicity and effectiveness
Roles
• Accountable Owner
• Operational Lead
• User Leads
• Steering Committee
Plan
• Health Score Structure
• Calls-to-Action Definition
• Systems Prep
• Initial Scoring and
Adjustments
• Data Cleanup
Adoption
• Start small, grow
steadily
• Adopt top-down and
inside-out
• Maintain simplicity
Approach
13. We designed our health score to be an even mix of subjective
and objective criteria
Version
Currency, 15%
Support
Usage, 10%
Sev 1 Issue, 10%
Finance
Status, 5%
Solution in
Production,
10%
Customer
Relationship, 40%
Partner
Effectiveness,
10%
HealthScoring
14. Calls-to-Action (CTAs) are proactively triggered playbooks that
help drive best practice approaches
Events
• Quarterly Reviews
• Onboarding
• Renewal Process
Risks
• Collections Challenge
• Delay in Go-Live
• Key Contact Change
• Missing Win Report
• Renewal Marked “At-Risk”
• Severity One Case
Created
Opportunities
• Upsell
• Consulting
• Training
Gainsight monitors our customers continuously and when specific criteria are met, a CTA is
triggered and a playbook is initiated. A playbook is a group of tasks with timelines, guidelines,
etc. to help CSMs and Sales align to best practice and to help leadership drive accountability.
CTAs
15. We’ve learning a lot in utilizing Gainsight
• Data cleanliness is critical
• Keeping things simple and smart
• Create champions from the beginning
• Operations
KeyLearnings
16. We’re continuing to expand on the Gainsight footprint
• Refine Health Measures
• Expand Tool Usage
• Continuous Proactive Actions
• Success Plans
FuturePlans