Retaining Your IT Staff

While demand for specific positions does vary, the truth is that every IT worker plays a key role in supporting the long term plans of a business. And at a time when many owners are just as happy sustaining business growth as they are increasing it, holding on to this talent should be a top...
Date Published - Last Updated January 14, 2016

Workforce Enablement

A comprehensive list of Workforce Enablement information and tools.
Date Published - Last Updated March 27, 2025

Metrics for the New World of Support

While it’s true that measures and metrics need to be focused at each of three levels—operational, tactical, and strategic—it’s also true that both operational and tactical measurements need to provide information that can be used at the strategic level. Many of the...

Date Published - Last Updated April 19, 2017

Successful Journeys Lead to Awards and Recognition at HDI 2015

There are leaders at every level in an organization, and HDI has long recognized the value each individual brings to a team and each team brings to the IT organization. We're so proud of all of our HDI 2015 award winners!
Date Published - Last Updated February 26, 2016

Top Down and Bottom Up: Performance Metrics That Count

RedSeal Networks provides proactive enterprise security management solutions that continually assess and fortify organizations’ cyberdefenses while automating compliance. Its engineers provide global, round-the-clock support, troubleshooting any obstacles to the analysis and improvement of...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Innovation: The Changing Role of the CIO

For UBM Tech, HDI’s parent company and a global live media and B2B communications, marketing services, and data provider, innovation is one of the four underlying corporate values leading the company down the path to be the best—and biggest—event business in the world. UBM Tech’s David Michael...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Go Where Your Customers Are: The Learning Commons

According to a MetricNet study, 84 percent of end users base their entire perception of IT on the day-to-day interactions they have with technical support. A related finding in recent HDI research on inbound contact channels shows that the channel with the highest customer satisfaction—by far—is...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Customer Experience: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Until fairly recently, many internal support centers have been “the only game in town.” While they occasionally measured customer satisfaction, these support centers didn’t have to worry much about competition, and neither did IT. Now, with the availability of the cloud, the proliferation of...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

CEM: The Road to Customer Satisfaction

Customer experience management (CEM) is a strategy that focuses the business on managing all interactions with a customer throughout his or her entire experience with a product or service. The ideal customer experience is one in which the business communicates its vision, distinguishes its...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

The Benefits of Self-Service and Service Desk Automation

While the total number of incidents/service requests, the potential impact of restricted access, and ease of automation will all vary by service, type of support, company, industry, etc., automation is subject to the greatest variability. Executing on a vision is certainly easier said than done,...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016