Customer Success Playbook PS3 E50 - Joe Di Grande - Your CS Tech Stack

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Send us Fan Mail Gear up for an energizing discussion on tech stacks and smart scaling! In this midweek episode of the Customer Success Playbook, Kevin Metzger and Roman Trebon welcome Joe Di Grande back to tackle a pressing issue: bloated CS tech stacks. Joe shares why so many organizations fall into this trap and delivers actionable advice on how to avoid or fix it. From building cross-functional committees to starting tech ops planning early, Joe's wisdom is essential for anyone striving to build a lean, mean customer success machine. Detailed Analysis: Joe Di Grande's return to the Customer Success Playbook is like having your favorite professor hand you the cheat sheet to a passing grade. In this session, he unpacks why bloated tech stacks happen: a lack of operational foresight, siloed decision-making, and the absence of data-first strategies. Acquisition fever might keep the lights on, but without systems thinking, organizations find themselves in a tangled mess of redundant tools. Joe highlights a proactive cure: form a cross-functional committee that includes sales, marketing, CS, and product voices.

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