SIGUCCS 2018 Conference Takeaway – What Cats can teach us about Excellent Customer Service

2018 Conference, Takeaway

What Cats can teach us about Excellent Customer Service

Presented by: Miranda Carney-Morris, Julio Appling, and Elizabeth Young (Lewis and Clark College)

An interactive workshop where various archetypes of cats were explained and how they related to typical support user types. A participant activity followed in which attendees creatively devised solutions to herd (and best support) these types of cats/customers.

Cats and Customer Service Panelists

Read the paper in the ACM Digital Library

Review the slides in Sched 

Takeaways:

Customer types are diverse as cat breeds. Providing flexible and effective support is an art! Meow, meow, meow!

About SIGUCCS Editor

The Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) is an association of professionals who support and manage the diverse aspects of information technology services at higher education institutions. SIGUCCS is one of 36 special interest groups of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. SIGUCCS focuses on issues surrounding the support, delivery, and management of those services, and provides professional development opportunities for its members and the other individuals in the field.