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Cohorts lead to Performance Benchmarks

OPEXEngine

In these discussions, lots of conventional wisdom is shared, backed up by “benchmarks” that came from an investor, a conference, or another industry source. That’s because benchmarks need to fit the business model and require context in order to be applied in a relevant way. Companies at a similar stage of growth and maturity.

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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

It can help you identify peak times for support requests and ticket creation which can guide your hiring and tech stack decisions to ensure you continue to meet customer demands. When reviewing this metric, remember to consider the nature of the conversations being held. Customer satisfaction. Tickets by hour.

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Q2 compared to Q1:  What are the trends for SaaS?

OPEXEngine

Reviewing 2020 is a necessary basis for any planning process, as most plans build off the current year. Then, Q2 was when most companies felt the initial real impact of economic and spending changes due to the pandemic, and everyone went remote. Q3 is, for many US tech companies, when we started experiencing the “new normal.”

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Shining the Light on R&D

OPEXEngine

For over a decade, we have been benchmarking R&D expenses and headcounts. In 2022, we are improving the depth of our R&D benchmarks into efficiency and ROI and will be rolling out a new R&D benchmarking aimed at CTOs and Engineering management. R&D ROI benchmarks, and.

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How to Present an Operating Plan to your Board

Kellblog

While technically the board is only approving the proposed 2023 operating plan, that plan has a 2024 and 2025 model attached to it. Let’s review the lines, starting with the first block, the leaky bucket itself: Starting ARR is the ARR level at the start of a period. Slide 1: The Leaky Bucket of ARR and Related Metrics.

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Where Is Customer Success Headed in 2022?

ChurnZero

They reviewed all our contracts. From an investor standpoint, a qualifying metric means I don’t care what the rest of your company looks like, I don’t care how excited I am about your people or your technology, I don’t care if you’re growing 5x, if your NRR is not right, you’re disqualified.” – You Mon Tsang, CEO at ChurnZero.

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2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report: A roundtable on support strategies for the year ahead

Intercom, Inc.

With the 2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report , we wanted to look deeper than individual metrics. Using bots to triage conversations or solve simple queries frees your team to focus on more complex issues and allows you to scale without adding headcount. If you enjoy our discussion, check out more episodes of our podcast.