Creating the Structure to Align IT and Business Objectives

A look at Service Level Agreements and other instruments for ensuring goals are met in IT service.
Date Published April 3, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Meet an AI Service Desk Agent

After working on integrating a generative AI tool into his organization’s service desk operation, Moe Suliman contemplates how such a tool would describe its attributes.
Date Published March 30, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

The Rise of the Machines: Is Your IT Job at Risk?

Machine learning and AI is already automating some tasks which once required human effort, but the new wave of technology also will open up new possibilities to IT professionals with the right skills.
Date Published March 17, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

The Metrics That are Valuable to IT Service Centers

It is important to measure the performance of your IT teams. HDI Featured Contributor Michael Hanson offers some measurement tools to help.
Date Published March 15, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Asset And Configuration Management Using AI

IT management expert Phyllis Drucker provides two perspectives on how automation can help with the management of IT infrastructure.
Date Published March 9, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Is There a Better Best Practice for IT?

An argument is made for a new way to organize your IT service and support teams around activity prioritization.
Date Published February 28, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Buzzwords Without Action Can Become Empty Promises

From an Omdia analyst, here are some suggestions for ways we can put action behind those memo-headline catchphrases.
Date Published February 27, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Make a Plan to Deal with Disruptive Technology

Sticking one’s head in the sand when there’s news of new technology can only lead to more work in the long run for IT service and support operations.
Date Published February 23, 2023 - Last Updated February 20, 2024

Underestimate Cybercriminal Organizations at Your Peril

Too many of us have an outdated concept of the level of sophistication of cybercrime organizations. That may put us at risk.
Date Published February 15, 2023 - Last Updated February 16, 2023

How to Prep for a Service Desk Manager Role (SDM)

Here are six things you can do to best position yourself to hit the ground running for this role, from HDI featured Contributor Pierre Bernard.
Date Published February 14, 2023 - Last Updated February 16, 2023