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Would Clarify Bootcamps be useful?

February 22, 2010 One of the themes I’ve picked up on recently is that there seems to be a lot of organizations who still use Clarify /Amdocs, but not to its full potential. No where near its full potential. I’ve recently talked to a bunch of people who don’t really know how to use it fully, extend it, what functionality is available, or even how to maintain it. I’ve seen the same issue on both sides of the house: Technical IT resources who don’t know how to customize it, what all of the moving components are, what to do when something goes wrong, or even where to look for knowledge, Business resources who don’t fully know what the product is capable or what exactly they even have. For example, I’m amazed when I find out that people aren’t running Rulemanager – one of…

A plethora of uses for Dovetail Mobile

May 27, 2009 Dovetail Mobile has quickly become one of my favorite products. Although it was originally designed for use on Mobile devices, it seems that I'm constantly coming up with new ways to use it. On a Mobile Device In its original intended state: on a mobile device.   On the Desktop As I've shown before, a little bit of styling makes it pleasant to use on the desktop.     Within a Google Gadget From a previous post: Clarify / Amdocs / Dovetail access from a Google Gadget     Within Outlook You can easily add a folder in outlook that points to a URL. That makes it easy to incorporate Dovetail Mobile within Outlook. This is easy to setup. Create a folder in Outlook, right-click on the folder, choose Properties. Check the box that says "Show home page by default",…

Applying Game Mechanics to Customer Service and Support systems

May 12, 2009 I've been having an ongoing conversations over the last few months with Kevin Leahy around applying gaming mechanics on top of enterprise systems. I'm still trying to get my head around a lot of this, so I'm using this post to jot down some of my ideas, some of the background, and to use it to hopefully continue the conversation with others. It's far different than most of my how-to posts. Mostly, its a brain dump.   Can we use gaming mechanics to influence the behavior of users of our system?   Would this improve our service? Can we make work more fun? Would this lead to happier employees, thus leading to happier customers? What is a Game?   what is a game? “a rule-based activity involving challenge to reach a goal" (fromhttp://www.changemakers.net/node/1308) a more informal definition: a structured experience with rules…