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HDI conducts extensive research throughout the year. In this webinar, we will review our 2019 research to date, examine what it means for the industry, and suggest areas that leaders should be paying attention to, including possible courses of action. We will review the latest...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

 

 

While much has changed this year for support centers—which consist of service desks, help desks, and desktop support—we must also remember that a lot has changed for the customers we serve, as well. They may lack the proximity of colleagues to answer simple...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 

 

Our customers changed where and how they work. Their needs and expectations have transformed along with their environment, and our service strategy must keep pace as the modern workplace evolves. Say goodbye to your music on hold, business hours, and carefully limited scope of...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 
The most successful teams embrace healthy conflict around ideas.
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, workforce enablement, team building, teamwork, leadership
Date Published May 30, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
This month, Jeff Rumburg looks at two commonly tracked service desk metrics for agent training: new agent training hours and annual agent training hours.
Tag(s): supportworld, metrics and measurements, workforce enablement, training
Date Published May 29, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Feedback is important to personal growth and development. But sometimes you need to ask for it.
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, workforce enablement
Date Published May 23, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Roy Atkinson interviewed Donna Knapp about DevOps, ITSM, ITIL, organizational change, and more.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, ITSM, devops, ITIL, podcast
Date Published May 22, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Apply these strategies to simplify triage and take charge of incident response.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, ITSM
Date Published May 21, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Before you make major changes to your environment, be sure you have good service management practices and principles in place to avoid poor customer satisfaction.
Tag(s): supportworld, customer experience, customer satisfaction, customer service, ITSM, service management
Date Published May 16, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Metrics help us understand our performance and ultimately drive our improvements and service levels. But metrics for the sake of metrics are useless.
Tag(s): supportworld, metrics and measurements, business value
Date Published May 15, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019