Getting funded and approved for additional staff, new software tools, or other expenditures for the support center can be challenging.
Tag(s): supportworld, tools, support center, service management, RESOURCES, costs, business value
Date Published January 5, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
The holidays can pose a challenge for support managers who need to have adequate staff available, but also need to accommodate vacation requests and holiday closures and time off.
Tag(s): supportworld, staffing, service management
Date Published January 4, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Self-service gives your customers the power to solve their simple problems quickly and easily. But what if people try to use your self-service and fail?
Tag(s): customer experience, supportworld, self-service, service desk, service management
Date Published January 3, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Traditional change management doesn’t support the rate of change required by businesses today. But DevOps can accelerate implementation of business-required changes.
Tag(s): change management, devops, business alignment, service management, supportworld
Date Published January 1, 2017 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
There is often confusion between the information we collect for a dashboard and the information needed to make a decision.
Tag(s): best practice, balanced scorecard, dashboards, metrics and measurements, supportworld
Date Published December 28, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Using a business-case approach with tools to assess total cost of ownership, cost/benefit analysis, and return on investment will help you minimize risks and costs associated with IT investments.
Tag(s): supportworld, tools, ROI, return on investment - ROI, IT-business alignment, financial management, costs, business value, business alignment, service management
Date Published December 22, 2016 - Last Updated July 20, 2017
Systems thinking can help you avoid costly mistakes such as introducing applications that are not compatible into an organization’s environment, interrupting workflows.
Tag(s): business alignment, collaboration, devops, organizational change management, supportworld, technology, service management
Date Published December 21, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
The top five SupportWorld articles of 2016 cover themes tech support professionals tackle every day, including customer service, knowledge management, service metrics, gamification, shift-left, and the future of the service desk.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, desktop support, service management, metrics and measurements, technology, customer experience, workforce enablement
Date Published December 20, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
The service desk role needs to expand beyond handling calls and tickets to become a true service management organization.
Tag(s): business alignment, future of support, governance, IT-business alignment, IT service management, process management, support center, supportworld
Date Published December 15, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Desktop support is more than just the “people who repair computers.” Desktop support technicians cover a wide range of responsibilities supporting many tasks.
Tag(s): focus series, supportworld, asset management, desktop support, ITIL, mobile device support, security management, technical support, trends, VDI, virtual desktop infrastructure - VDI
Date Published December 15, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016