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Machine Learning and Analytics: Taking Service Management and Support to the Next Level

 

As technology becomes increasingly critical to businesses and other organizations, speed becomes more and more important. Whether the support organization is delivering on service requests or resolving incidents, there can be negative business impacts: new hires whose equipment...

Date Published March 26, 2018 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

Technology and the Service Desk: Expanding Mission, Expanding Skills

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Today's service desks are farther and farther removed from the help desks of yesteryear in which all equipment was standardized and issued...
Date Published March 26, 2018 - Last Updated March 27, 2018

The Future of the IT Support Center

 

Technology is changing at a faster pace than ever and will continue to accelerate. Support centers (help desks or service desks) not only need to keep up with the technologies of their customers or users but also the technology within the support center itself. The customers...

Date Published March 26, 2018 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

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

Why the ”Why” Matters to Team Success

In today’s millennial workplace, team members seek a sense of purpose. Understanding goals and objectives of the team is key to success.
Date Published March 15, 2018 - Last Updated December 13, 2018

Improve Your Service Desk with Right-Sized Metrics

Many service and support organizations struggle with the ability to make lasting improvements because they don't know how to assess the metrics they report.
Date Published March 14, 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