Detection and referral of problems is an important way in which the support center contributes to the overall improvement of any organization’s IT environment.
Tag(s): incident management, problem management, support center, supportworld, business value
Date Published December 14, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Who has made an impact on the technical support industry? Help us put together the list of HDI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support.
Tag(s): support center, desktop support, service management, metrics and measurements, technology, customer experience, workforce enablement
Date Published December 5, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Enterprise service management provides an opportunity for IT to assume a vital role within the organization, bringing specific expertise and experience to the enterprise as a whole.
Tag(s): focus series, supportworld, business value, service management, ITSM, IT service management, IT-business alignment
Date Published December 1, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Excellence in five areas of customer service can contribute greatly to the effectiveness of service management, which is expanding beyond the world of IT.
Tag(s): supportworld, shadow-it, customer experience, customer satisfaction, customer service, self-service, service desk, service quality, cloud computing
Date Published November 17, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
In IT, following the process will reduce the mean time to resolve incidents, which in turn restores services to normalcy in a timely manner.
Tag(s): best practice, escalation, incident management, IT service management, ITSM, process, service desk, support center, supportworld
Date Published November 16, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Where do you spend your time in the support center? If you are a manager and doing too much operational work, you might be neglecting to build a strategy for your team.
Tag(s): service strategy, support center, support operations, supportworld
Date Published November 10, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Knowledge management (KM) is a touchy subject in the world of support. Many organizations struggle with it, and far fewer have managed to create a mature KM process.
Tag(s): KM, knowledge management, KCS, supportworld
Date Published November 3, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Swarming not only gets problems resolved, but also you typically get resolution much more quickly. It is also a great training mechanism for front-line employees.
Tag(s): collaboration, customer experience, customer service, employee engagement, ITSM, IT service management, practices and processes, service design, service desk, support center, supportworld
Date Published October 20, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
Because rollouts require concentrated effort to complete work within a specified time, bringing in contractors to assist desktop support can be beneficial.
Tag(s): capacity management, desktop support, human resources, RESOURCES, staffing, supportworld, workforce enablement, contracting
Date Published October 19, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed the merits and applications of skills-based routing and intelligent swarming.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, knowledge management, KM
Date Published October 18, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016