Defining IT Services for the Business

In order to run IT like a business, a technical service and support organization needs to have a clear picture of the services it provides and how these services create value for its customers. Many organizations find it difficult to define services from the customer’s perspective because...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Mobile: The New Engagement Channel

Every once in a while, a technology evolution occurs that fundamentally changes the way business is conducted and how consumers interact, spawning an entire new ecosystem. One such technology evolution is the rise of the smartphone and mobile devices. Despite the explosive growth in mobile...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

DS in the NICU: The Face of IT

Desktop support is about more than solving technical issues for clients; it is about helping people, face to face. It isn’t just a voice over the phone or a silent adjustment to a back-end application; it’s about connecting with customers and providing solutions, even if they are not...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Why Your Department Needs an IT Communications Manager

Communication between IT and its customers has traditionally been the responsibility of the service desk. In some workplaces, consistent, organized communication is hard to achieve; the service desk may not be up to date on the services offered by other areas of IT, turf wars between various...
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

Beyond ITSM: Leveraging Service Management to Deliver Value Across Your Entire Organization

 

As service management frameworks, concepts, and tools expand beyond the IT function, IT leaders and their teams play a critical role in helping define and explain the benefits of implementing a service-focused mindset across every business function. But it is important to...

Date Published - Last Updated January 25, 2023

Integrating Knowledge Management and Virtual Agents for Self-Service Success

 

Knowledge management is more critical than ever. Advanced technologies, such as virtual agents, chatbots, and AI, require that organizations have knowledge organized and accessible to the “smart machines.” One of the goals of knowledge management is to provide...

Date Published - Last Updated September 24, 2021

Evolving Customer Support in a Shift-Left World

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More and more organizations are using the shift-left approach to support, bringing more complex work down...

Date Published - Last Updated February 21, 2017

Customer Service: Changing Preferences and Evolving Technologies

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In research conducted by HDI and Robert Half Technology on the technical support center of the future, industry professionals said they...

Date Published - Last Updated September 20, 2016

CEM Meets ITSM: A Customer Service Week Event

Gain a better understanding of the total customer experience! In this webinar, Julie Mohr will cover the core concepts of customer experience management, including the five steps of the CEM framework:

  1. Analyzing the experiential world of the customer
  2. ...
Date Published - Last Updated September 9, 2015

Coaching for Customer Service: A Customer Service Week Event

Coaching involves regular communication with the goal of building skills through encouraging feedback. In this webinar, Mary Cruse will introduce attendees to the coaching feedback loop, which includes preplanning events as well as the ever-important one-on-one coaching session. She'll...

Date Published - Last Updated August 19, 2015