Some of the most effective techniques for doing more with less come from lean management. Using these techniques, I’ve been able to mobilize my teams while maintaining or improving morale and customer satisfaction. But where do you start? How do you identify the areas that will have the biggest...
Tag(s): continual service improvement, leadership, organizational change management, process-improvement, support center
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
Today’s technical service and support organizations are constantly challenged to do more with less while remaining cost-efficient, maintaining service level agreements, and dealing with an ever-changing business and technological landscape. These changes create disruption and frustration for...
Tag(s): knowledge management, knowledge-management-systems, KM, Knowledge Management Systems, collaboration
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
Service providers have come to the realization that their departments simply are not sharing information as well as they could. There are just too many silos, which inhibit the free exchange of shared knowledge, ideas, and experience. The result? Poor decision making, agility, and knowledge...
Tag(s): knowledge management, KCS, KM
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
Without clear objectives, metrics are just a pile of numbers. The good is when we beat our targets, the bad is when we fail to hit those targets, and the ugly is when we fail to set challenging objectives. Remember, like baseball, the only thing that really matters in the end is whether or not...
Tag(s): metrics and measurements, performance management, service desk, service delivery
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
TECO Energy’s vision for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) project was to consolidate its existing financial, materials management (supply chain management), and human resource management applications and systems onto a single integrated platform across TECO Energy’s businesses. This...
Tag(s): case study, business alignment, process management, support center
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
Supporting Office 365 is no easy task, especially in a university setting with a diverse audience of end users. But the University of New Mexico Information Technologies (UNM IT) is doing just that—and achieving exceptionally high first contact resolution rates, as well as huge growth in the use...
Tag(s): case study, desktop support, first call resolution, infrastructure change management, knowledge management, KM, release management, service desk
Date Published - Last Updated February 25, 2016

 
The improvement strategy was simple: provide users with what they want, when they need it, while implementing efficient processes that produce consistent, repeatable outputs.
Tag(s): case study, service quality
Date Published - Last Updated June 2, 2016