In a bilingual virtual support model, the support team would be comprised of remote agents, or virtual support professionals, with the capacity to handle multilingual customer interactions. The deployed model of support would leverage existing VoIP technology, as well as the incident management...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015
The IT job market is heating up and top talent is becoming scarce. It’s essential that you start defining strategies for acquiring employees who will propel your company forward—or run the risk of losing out to the competition for the most qualified technical and business-minded people.
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015
An effective, first-rate help desk is easy to spot—you can hear it, see it, and feel it. You can hear it in the satisfied relief of callers thanking support personnel. You can see it in help desk metrics that prove speed, effectiveness, and successful problem resolution. You can feel it in help...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016
Are you on a path to become an ITIL v3 Expert? You're not alone. Many consultants, practitioners, and job seekers see this certification as a means of improving their work and IT opportunities. How can you successfully prepare yourself for the long and arduous road to certification? Follow these...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
Service quality is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, and the customer experience is an essential part of service quality. If you remove the customer as the main focus of a service quality strategy, you will lose sight of the purpose around creating and delivering a consistent, quality...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
Attracting and retaining the best people requires a corporate culture that values mutual trust and openness. This white paper presents four leadership strategies for building open and collaborative relationships in the workplace.
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
Effective leadership comes down to one thing: people care when they know that you care! In recent Gallup polls regarding the state of the US worker, it was shocking and disappointing to see how many people are truly disengaged in the workplace. In support organizations, the biggest...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
Performance management creates the greatest value when it drives your strategic plan. The challenge, however, is that most organizations find day-to-day performance driven by any number of items or urgent requests, but not strategy.
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016
No matter how great the IT department is doing behind the scenes, it’s the frontline service desk that everyone sees. Since the service desk is the face of the IT department to the company, that face should have a smile on it, be familiar and helpful, address issues quickly, and keep everyone...
Date Published April 23, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re just not trying hard enough. But what do you do when the inevitable happens? What do you do when you or your staff make a mistake? Mistakes can erode trust, but let’s be very clear: It’s not the mistake that ...
Date Published March 7, 2015 - Last Updated February 26, 2016