Silent Suffering: Why Your Customers Don’t Contact You

Why do end users or customers ignore issues and continue to suffer, rather than contact support and get the issues addressed?
Date Published April 4, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Optum

Optum’s End User Technology Services harnessed a focus on teamwork and implemented centralized services where needed to help them achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 28, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Marsh & McLennan Companies

Marsh & McLennan tackled a growing service desk, software updates, language barriers, and integration from mergers and acquisitions to achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 27, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Houston Independent School District

The Houston Independent School District overcame challenges with leadership turnover, hardware rollouts, knowledge management, and business systems to achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 26, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Metric of the Month: Tickets per User per Month

Jeff Rumburg explores tickets per user per month and dispels a common misperception that the user population alone will define the number of technicians needed.
Date Published March 20, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Improve Your Service Desk with Right-Sized Metrics

Many service and support organizations struggle with the ability to make lasting improvements because they don't know how to assess the metrics they report.
Date Published March 14, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Measure the Customer Experience in Desktop Support

You can influence the outcomes of your metrics and increase both your customer and employee satisfaction.
Date Published March 6, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Do You Need to Elevate Your SLAs?

A good SLA provides mutual benefit to both the IT organization and the business it serves.
Date Published March 1, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Impact of Automation on Metrics

Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, bots, and other automation tools are poised to make a large impact on support.
Date Published February 27, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Metric of the Month: Percent Resolved Level 1 Capable

Jeff Rumburg looks at percent resolved level 1 capable, a desktop support metric that provides insight into total cost of ownership for service and support.
Date Published February 15, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018