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Never Forget Why You Do This

Service management and support professionals love solving problems, finding causes, fixing things, sharing knowledge, and helping others succeed.
Date Published May 22, 2018 - Last Updated March 23, 2020

Meet the 2018 HDI Featured Contributors

In 2018, HDI assembled a panel of industry experts and practitioners to create content to help technical support and service management professionals excel in their jobs and advance their careers.
Date Published May 17, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

What Works in Professional Development: The ROI of Training, Part 1

The first step to calculate the ROI of training includes developing your training goals, baselining current performance, and creating actionable learning objectives.
Date Published May 16, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Data vs. Metadata

Data tells you what happened. Metadata adds value by providing information and context to help you understand why it happened.
Date Published May 15, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Five Steps to Build a Winning Team Culture

Every company has a culture. The question is, is your company’s culture worth catching?
Date Published May 10, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Striving for 100 Percent

There are multiple reasons to strive for 100% linking. You want your support staff to follow the same process 100% of the time, not 60–80% of the time.
Date Published May 9, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Metric of the Month: Incident Mean Time to Resolve

Jeff Rumburg looks at incident mean time to resolve (MTTR), which measures the average elapsed time from when an incident is opened until the incident is closed.
Date Published May 8, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Problem with People and Knowledge Collecting

To create a successful knowledge management program, support staff need to understand the purpose.
Date Published May 3, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Use a Strategic Framework for Your Career

If you think of your career as a project, a strategic framework can help you look objectively at your career, identify targets and measures, and set your course.
Date Published May 2, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Your Chatbot Needs Help

Automated systems are only as good as the knowledge you provide to them.
Date Published May 1, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018