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Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

Intercom, Inc.

Our philosophy is to ship first and optimize later. The risk is that new features could cause costs to spiral out of control, but we find that when this strategy is implemented alongside our other principles, reactive cost management means we spend more time building and serving customer needs. Centralize governance.

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What Does it Take to Get CX Right? [It’s Not Just the Technology]

SmartKarrot

But surprisingly, most businesses have had a (very) late-start to actioning CX strategies. Did you know that the more a company invests in CX, the more cost-optimized that particular account becomes? A seminal report by Harvard Business Review found that positive customer experiences can slash your cost-to-serve by a third4.