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
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
Learn what the business or IT partner wants to know, and then look at your current reports and metrics to see if they answer the question.
Tag(s): benchmarking, business value, metrics and measurements, reporting, supportworld
Date Published December 15, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
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
To adopt a knowledge management strategy, First American had to embrace the idea that KM is a requirement for continuous improvement and sustainable success for the service desk.
Tag(s): KCS, KM, knowledge management, supportworld, support center, case study
Date Published December 15, 2016 - Last Updated July 19, 2018
Detection and referral of problems is an important way in which the support center contributes to the overall improvement of any organization’s IT environment.
Tag(s): incident management, problem management, support center, supportworld, business value
Date Published December 14, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
The more senses we use in learning something, the easier it is to remember. We also know that telling people information alone does not mean that it is understood nor remembered, much less used on the job.
Tag(s): supportworld, training, workforce enablement, support center, people
Date Published December 13, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Providing trustworthy advice and helping to steer customers in the right direction are more important now than the ability to provide hardware and software services.
Tag(s): customer experience, customer service, technical support, supportworld, shadow-it, business of support
Date Published December 7, 2016 - Last Updated January 4, 2017
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed their favorite metrics.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, metrics and measurements, reporting-and-analytics, business value
Date Published December 6, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016