Purposeful support practices are an innovative way to look at those widely accepted service management processes, but with an emphasis on achieving a desired, measurable end result. Purposeful practices should always be open to investigation and continuous improvement, therefore...
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, leadership
The challenges organizations face today aren't the same as the challenges we faced ten or twenty years ago. There are few places where this is more apparent than support, and many organizations are changing the way they do business to address these challenges. Today, there is a rising...
Tag(s): customer service, business of support, process, practices and processes
A well-designed, highly automated reporting framework that utilizes a balanced approach, effective graphics, clear targets, and real-time and periodic reporting, along with analysis and recommendations, is absolutely essential for IT service management to be effective in delivering quality...
Tag(s): white paper, productivity, practices and processes, metrics and measurements, best practice
Tag(s): desktop support, customer service, framework and methodologies, practices and processes, metrics and measurements, process, research, RESOURCES, technology
True story: The CEO of a large defense contractor spills coffee on his laptop while en route to a business meeting. His staff arranges for a local company to recover highly sensitive data from the damaged laptop, data that is critical to a pending business merger. The recovery is a success, but...
Tag(s): technology, process, practices and processes
In this environment of rapidly changing support requirements and increasing customer demands, the question is not whether organizations should make the transition to web-based support (i.e., chat), but how they can make that transition successfully. When implemented perfectly, chat can deliver...
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, workforce management, technology
Designing a ticket categorization structure that not only makes sense, but which can also stand the test of time is an important, if difficult, task. Support organizations must strike a balance between selecting categories that are easy for analysts to choose correctly and producing reports that...
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, metrics and measurements
As organizations multisource their IT services, push services to the cloud, and consolidate services into enterprise-shared services to reduce costs, their success increasingly depends on relationship management rather than the deep systems expertise that has traditionally been their core...
Tag(s): process, business of support, customer service, practices and processes
Some will no doubt think this is heresy, but the fact is that ITIL is a process framework. It is not prescriptive (in either ITIL v3 or ITIL 2011, but more on that later), and the books do not actually provide a method for designing services; rather, they provide the (presumably) required processes.
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, framework and methodologies
Incident categorization is a challenge for many organizations. Whether it is due to culture, politics, complexity, or an inability to agree, every organization, at some point, runs up against incident categorization. Why does it cause so much difficulty? Every organization is different. Their...
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, metrics and measurements