More and more organizations are turning to cloud services to reduce operational cost, transfer risk to service providers, and increase workforce mobility. Such change raises questions that must be answered. How do today’s leaders decide which services to migrate to the cloud and which to put in...
Tag(s): metrics and measurements, technology
Date Published May 25, 2012 - Last Updated 7 Years, 323 Days, 19 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
If there’s one thing service desks are good at, it is collecting information and reporting on it. If there is one thing they are terrible at, it is being able to focus on the few instead of the many. But one way to find out if anyone is actually reading the reports you spend so much time...
Tag(s): metrics and measurements, people, workforce enablement, process, business of support
Date Published May 23, 2012 - Last Updated 7 Years, 323 Days, 19 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
Incident categorization is a challenge for many organizations. Whether it is due to culture, politics, complexity, or an inability to agree, every organization, at some point, runs up against incident categorization. Why does it cause so much difficulty? Every organization is different. Their...
Tag(s): process, practices and processes, metrics and measurements
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated 7 Years, 323 Days, 18 Hours, 51 Minutes ago
Customers and service providers sometimes have different opinions of what value is. Getting the right mix of benefits, features, quality, guarantees, and costs is paramount to happy customers and a good night’s sleep. Let’s call this right mix “the zone.” You want to be in the zone at all times....
Tag(s): customer service, metrics and measurements, process
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated 7 Years, 323 Days, 18 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
One of the most common questions I hear from IT support managers is “How many technicians should I have in desktop support?” In this white paper, I will present a rigorous methodology for determining the appropriate technician headcount for desktop support. By following this approach, desktop...
Tag(s): white paper, staffing, metrics and measurements, library, desktop support
Date Published March 15, 2012 - Last Updated 9 Years, 91 Days, 23 Hours, 39 Minutes ago
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...
Tag(s): metrics and measurements, business of support, practices and processes, business alignment, business value
Date Published - Last Updated 6 Years, 345 Days, 21 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
A well-designed, highly automated reporting framework that utilizes a balanced approach, effective graphics, clear targets, and real-time and periodic reporting, along with analysis and recommendations, is absolutely essential for IT service management to be effective in delivering quality...
Tag(s): white paper, productivity, practices and processes, metrics and measurements, best practice
Date Published - Last Updated 9 Years, 91 Days, 23 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
In this webinar, HDI 2016 track chair John Custy ("Metrics and Measurements") will present a view into the future of metrics as we move out of the telephone era and into the era of multichannel and analytics, including new trends in metrics and reporting. Discover how service desk...
Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, metrics and measurements, reporting-and-analytics
Date Published - Last Updated 8 Years, 142 Days, 17 Hours, 15 Minutes ago
The time has come for your organization to replace a key piece of technology. Senior management is on board, and money is available. Your frontline staff is thrilled that their tools will be updated. Now what?
Good technology and services cost good money, and tight budgets...
Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, return on investment - ROI, costs
Date Published - Last Updated 7 Years, 225 Days, 18 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
Each year, companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on training that doesn’t deliver measurable results: employees don’t perform better, processes aren’t more efficient than before, communication is still poor, service delivery doesn’t improve, and customers are still dissatisfied. How can...
Tag(s): training, return on investment - ROI, ROI
Date Published - Last Updated 3 Years, 19 Days, 19 Hours, 3 Minutes ago