Eleven Ways to Increase Employee Loyalty

The lifeblood of every business is its employees. Given this critical fact, you may assume every business has a detailed plan and solid processes in place to ensure employees are engaged. Unfortunately, this is generally not the case. Many companies continue to assume that if they build a good...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015

The Virtual Support Center: Innovative and Strategically Balanced Support

Whether we want to admit it or not, the service and support industry might be the most schizophrenic industry on the planet today! It seems one minute we're in the back office providing service and support behind the scenes to end users and customers, and the next minute we're moved to the front...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015

The Support Manager's Metrics Primer

Measurements in support center operations can be useful for identifying required resources for staffing, determining schedules, calculating return on investment, measuring agent and support center performance, justifying needed changes, and understanding organizational productivity. The approach...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016

Reusability 2.0: The Key to Publishing Learning

What would you do if you had to develop and deliver personalized training to 900,000 employees, located in 34,000 different locations globally, with a complex set of variables that changed training on a location-by-location basis? The key is Reusability 2.0. While technology-delivered training...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015

Performance Management: Myths and Reality

Setting up a performance management system can deliver tremendous results. We’ve seen it deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in value in months. Today it has become an important tool in building an organizational culture of choice, and delivering great results.
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016

Innovation in Support: Bilingual Virtual Support Center

In a bilingual virtual support model, the support team would be comprised of remote agents, or virtual support professionals, with the capacity to handle multilingual customer interactions. The deployed model of support would leverage existing VoIP technology, as well as the incident management...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015

Four Winning Talent Strategies for the New IT

The IT job market is heating up and top talent is becoming scarce. It’s essential that you start defining strategies for acquiring employees who will propel your company forward—or run the risk of losing out to the competition for the most qualified technical and business-minded people.
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015

Five Hallmarks of Help Desk Excellence

An effective, first-rate help desk is easy to spot—you can hear it, see it, and feel it. You can hear it in the satisfied relief of callers thanking support personnel. You can see it in help desk metrics that prove speed, effectiveness, and successful problem resolution. You can feel it in help...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated January 14, 2016

Eight HabITs of the Successful ITIL Expert

Are you on a path to become an ITIL v3 Expert? You're not alone. Many consultants, practitioners, and job seekers see this certification as a means of improving their work and IT opportunities. How can you successfully prepare yourself for the long and arduous road to certification? Follow these...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015

Don't Sacrifice Service Quality While Cutting Costs

Service quality is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, and the customer experience is an essential part of service quality. If you remove the customer as the main focus of a service quality strategy, you will lose sight of the purpose around creating and delivering a consistent, quality...
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015