Consider all the costs, including personnel and dollars, before you decide whether to purchase a tool for your support center.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, support operations, value-add, business value, costs, tools
Date Published June 22, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
Learn how one support center made the journey to shift left.
Tag(s): self-service, supportworld, service management, support center, ITSM, workforce enablement
Date Published June 21, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
Customer satisfaction is the percentage of customers who are satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of support they receive. It is the most common measure of quality.
Tag(s): supportworld, customer satisfaction, customer-satisfaction-measurement, metrics and measurements, desktop support, support center
Date Published June 7, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
In order to improve, technical support organizations need to decide what to invest in, and when.
Tag(s): supportworld, technology, service management, support center, tools
Date Published May 23, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
The mood at HDI 2017 Conference & Expo was upbeat. Participants seemed optimistic about the future of tech support.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, service management, metrics and measurements, workforce enablement, technology, customer experience, desktop support
Date Published May 23, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
It should not take a crisis to generate a meeting between support center and desktop support managers to keep the relationship between the two groups on track.

Tag(s): desktop support, support center, supportworld, forums, forums-desktop, forums-sclf
Date Published May 17, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
To provide great customer service, consider hiring talent with empathy, empowering your team to make decisions, and creating relationships among team members.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, customer experience, customer service
Date Published May 10, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
The mission of technical support has been to get people back to work quickly after an incident or for a service request. But that can no longer be our primary mission.
Tag(s): supportworld, technical support, research, business of support
Date Published April 26, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019

 
We are on the threshold of an era when we can take advantage of advanced technologies to assist us and, more importantly, those we support.
Tag(s): supportworld, technology, self-service tools, self-service, technical support, trends
Date Published April 19, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

 
Technology hard trends in artificial intelligence, cyber security systems, cloud computing, data analytics, and virtualization will shape the future of tech support.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, technology, future of support, cloud, security management
Date Published April 11, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017