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Worrying Net Promoter Score results

The latest NPS scores have been published for Q3, not really any positive figures apart from one or two regions.

Worryingly US Commercial, GES, Americas SP (probably AMER’s strongest areas for historical revenue?),
UK&I and Germany(probably EMEA’s strongest areas for historical revenue?) and ANZ and Japan(probably APAC’s strongest areas for historical revenue?) have all scored particularly poorly (minus numbers or just above zero).

Some comments from customers:

  • - Cisco used to make me look good in my role, now make me look bad.
  • For a brand to have fallen so quickly, and seemingly permanently is distressing,
  • We plan to transition away from Cisco entirely.
  • We have seen a shift away from what customers want vs what Cisco wants to sell.
  • Customer service is nonexistent and takes ages for someone to respond even with multilayered service teams.
  • - TAC used to be top quality support, these days I get better support Googling my issue.
  • If Cisco wants to be seen as a trusted partner they need to consider the customer requirements not the Cisco requirements.

Probably most disheartening is that the AM response to these messages back to customers is just a little over 10% within 72 hours.
Sadly, I think Cisco has come too far to reverse this, they’ve been surfing along on their past successes for the past few years and it’s now finally caught up with them.

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@odh+1mFCCJZ2 Sadly the fat lady started singing long time ago, see your v2mommy revisions. Part of why tac became this corporate mode. Take all forms of enablement and independence away, together with access to resources, promote soft skills.
And there you have it, a help desk in contrast to what used to be a pool of engineers you now have … something in place

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Post ID: @bch+1mFCCJZ2

@wkm+1mFCCJZ2 BS. The downfall started with JC. He was successful during the dot com bo-m despite himself. Then he made stupid decision after stupid decision.

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Post ID: @ovs+1mFCCJZ2

"TAC used to be top quality support, these days I get better support Googling my issue."

I work in TAC and can confirm this statement is right on the spot. In TAC, we do the same, we google before looking up info in Cisco's internal outdated knowledgebase. Well, it pays the bills. As they say, the show aint over till the f.a.t lady sings.

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Post ID: @odh+1mFCCJZ2

"they’ve been surfing along on their past successes for the past few years and it’s now finally caught up with them. " about the same amount of time CR took the lead and filled his C-level with a wishy washy group.

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Post ID: @wkm+1mFCCJZ2

Welcome to IBM 2.0. Here's your accordion.

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