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Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
I know, I know. I pick on Lawson Support too much. Read more of this post
Nothing says “we don’t care” better than lousy customer service. This was the “greeting” I received this morning on Lawson’s Support site when trying to open a case:
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Maybe I’m just a little unreasonable, but this was on a Monday morning at 8:25am EDT. Read more of this post
A number of years ago, I wrote a LawsonGuru Letter article titled “Lawson’s Quality Crisis”. I really had high hopes that Lawson was turning the corner on these problems as part of their various initiatives (including their adoption of better CMM practices, the Xansa partnership, etc.)
Seth Godin writes in his blog today (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/time_machines.html about the use of time manipulation by customer service employees in order to achieve “customer satisfaction”. I often feel the same way when I hear Lawson tout its “successful support call” completion rates.
I broached this subject on one of the Topica message boards a few weeks ago, and generated some controversial replies. Which means it’s a hot topic and worth sharing with the larger Lawson population.
By far, the biggest news this month on the Lawson front may be its most controversial. In conjunction with an announcement of some development layoffs, Lawson announced that, over the next 2 years, it plans to move some development jobs offshore to an as-yet-unnamed organization in India (see http://news.mpr.org/features/2003/09/22_horwichj_lawson/).