In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed their current ITSM/ticket management tools and plans for replacement.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, technical support, service management, service desk technology
Date Published October 4, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
What if you could cut 75% of the time, cost, and distraction from the problem-solving process? By taking the best of today's collaboration tools and the war room approach, you can!
Tag(s): collaboration, communications technology, crowdsourcing, knowledge management, KM, ITSM, service desk, service management, supportworld
Date Published September 28, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
Adopting a new framework or methodology requires study, planning, strategizing, and healthy doses of organizational change management for the support center.
Tag(s): focus series, supportworld, support center, best practice, change management, COBIT, devops, framework and methodologies, ITIL, ITSM, KCS
Date Published September 26, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
Too often, information security is viewed as someone else’s job, and the goals of security (to protect) and customer service and support (to assist) are often at direct odds.
Tag(s): customer service, security management, support center, supportworld, training
Date Published September 21, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
Problem management doesn’t have to be complicated, and there is no wrong way of doing it, as long as it functions well and provides for the outcomes expected.
Tag(s): problem management, process management, service management, supportworld
Date Published September 14, 2016 - Last Updated December 1, 2017

 
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed the role of the service desk in information security.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, technical support, security management, service desk
Date Published September 13, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
Learn what John Deere did to engineer a lean service management structure and quality improvement roadmap designed to make the organization easier to do business with.
Tag(s): case study, IT service management, service management, lean, supportworld
Date Published September 8, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
The bimodal IT model aims to be slow and careful with the critical and legacy infrastructure, but fast in delivering user and customer facing applications and services.
Tag(s): future of support, devops, service management, supportworld
Date Published September 7, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
As tech support embraces a shift-left strategy, self-service can play an important role, reducing the volume of simple, repetitive contacts and reducing costs.
Tag(s): focus series, supportworld, technical support, trends, automation, escalation, knowledge management, self-service, self-service tools, support center
Date Published August 31, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016

 
In last week's #HDIchat, participants shared the events they attend for professional development and why they attend those events in particular.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, technical support, service management, professional development
Date Published August 30, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016