01 · Topic

Strategy and organisation

What Customer Success should own, where the function belongs, and how responsibility and mandate should follow the business model.
Articles
5
Total reading time
approx. 34 min
01

Why Customer Success became a discipline of its own

The subscription model moved revenue from the sale to the whole customer relationship – and exposed gaps no function covered. On the background to Customer Success and the problems the discipline was established to solve.

7 min read

Foundations

03

Which companies need Customer Success?

Not every company needs a Customer Success department. On the characteristics that make the discipline important, a simple decision path, and when the right answer is a better product or better onboarding instead.

5 min read

Guide

04

Roles in Customer Success: An overview

From Customer Success Specialist to VP Customer Success: what the roles typically involve, how they differ, and why the same title can mean very different things.

8 min read

Guide

05

What does a Head of Customer Success do?

Strategy, operating model, segmentation, retention, data and leadership: a review of what a Customer Success leader is responsible for – and why the role varies so much.

7 min read

Guide

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