Silent Suffering: Why Your Customers Don’t Contact You

Why do end users or customers ignore issues and continue to suffer, rather than contact support and get the issues addressed?
Date Published April 4, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Optum

Optum’s End User Technology Services harnessed a focus on teamwork and implemented centralized services where needed to help them achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 28, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Marsh & McLennan Companies

Marsh & McLennan tackled a growing service desk, software updates, language barriers, and integration from mergers and acquisitions to achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 27, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

The Journey to Team Excellence: Houston Independent School District

The Houston Independent School District overcame challenges with leadership turnover, hardware rollouts, knowledge management, and business systems to achieve team excellence.
Date Published March 26, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Why KCS?

Western Kentucky University’s IT division set out to implement KCS, despite previous knowledge management efforts ending in frustration.
Date Published March 21, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Metric of the Month: Tickets per User per Month

Jeff Rumburg explores tickets per user per month and dispels a common misperception that the user population alone will define the number of technicians needed.
Date Published March 20, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Creating and Keeping a Strong KCS Culture

Rolling out KCS practices is the easy part; keeping a culture of knowledge sharing where employees want to participate is where things get tricky.
Date Published March 13, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

IT Maturity Matters Because IT Matters

IT maturity is defined by the collective set of IT capabilities; it’s about what the IT department can do for the business.
Date Published March 8, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Do You Need to Elevate Your SLAs?

A good SLA provides mutual benefit to both the IT organization and the business it serves.
Date Published March 1, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Not So Fast: Is Your Support Organization Ready to Use Bots?

While chatbots may be able to make customer support quicker, cheaper, and easier, your organization may not be bot-ready. Ask yourself eight questions to find out.
Date Published February 22, 2018 - Last Updated February 1, 2019