Knowledge management is the future of IT support—but not as we know it today. The reality is, IT’s view of managing knowledge is significantly challenged by modern methodologies.
Date Published June 16, 2015 - Last Updated February 20, 2024
Shadow IT is just a new flavor of outsourcing, empowered by the cloud and mobility. For IT to address it, it needs to build powerful relationships, but first, it needs to be seen by the business as a partner in the organization’s success.
Date Published June 9, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Security and support aren’t covered with anywhere near the regularity of other aspects of the Internet of Things. But when you scratch the surface, they’re every bit as important to enterprises as usability and functionality.
Date Published June 9, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Self-service: The phrase evokes deep emotion in customers and support personnel alike, though they perhaps occupy opposite ends of the spectrum. But take heart, support professionals—self-service is possible!
Date Published June 2, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
If you have a job and you give it to someone else, that’s a bad thing. That’s been the traditional view of outsourcing, but there’s a different perspective to consider: Outsourcing is a solution, not the solution.
Date Published May 26, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Trusted advisors will play a pivotal role in the new world of IT. Cinda Daly sat down with industry thought leaders Malcolm Fry and Phil Verghis to learn more about how businesses can take advantage of this opportunity.
Date Published May 19, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
IT professionals need to adapt to today's changing culture or we risk becoming extinct. It is no longer all about the technology; it’s about partnership and solutions, where technology becomes transparent and unobtrusive.
Date Published May 19, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
The growing trend toward BYOD will continue to pose challenges for allocating service desk resources more creatively and accommodating users’ needs.
Date Published May 1, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Over the past fifteen years, service management platforms have come and gone but many critical limitations persist. The service desk has evolved, and now a new generation of solutions offers more promise. Read this white paper to learn why the fourth-generation service desk is critical in terms...
Date Published April 30, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
All software, from simple command line utilities to large-scale corporate systems, needs documentation. It may be done either in the form of several text strings shown in a console window or in the form of thousands of webpages stored on the company portal in a distributed database. No matter...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016