The modern organization needs to provide a reliable, secure way for customers, vendors, and remote employees to both access the resources they need to do their work, and to receive support where they are, when they need it. HDI’s annual research shows that Remote Control...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 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...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
If your organization’s goal is to reduce friction so your customers can experience your products and services in new and exciting ways, you’re going to need to rethink how and why you’re doing what you’ve always done. More and more people are gaining...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
The most successful teams embrace healthy conflict around ideas.
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.
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.
Date Published May 23, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
Roy Atkinson interviewed Donna Knapp about DevOps, ITSM, ITIL, organizational change, and more.
Date Published May 22, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
Apply these strategies to simplify triage and take charge of incident response.
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.
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.
Date Published May 15, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019