While much has changed this year for support centers—which consist of service desks, help desks, and desktop support—we must also remember that a lot has changed for the customers we serve, as well. They may lack the proximity of colleagues to answer simple...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
The modern organization needs to provide a reliable, secure way for customers, vendors, and remote employees to both access the resources they need to do their work, and to receive support where they are, when they need it. HDI’s annual research shows that Remote Control...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
The 2010s were a decade of rapid-fire evolution in IT, technical support, and service management: from mobile devices to remote support, knowledge management to enterprise service management and ITIL4, countless technologies, processes, frameworks, and methodologies emerged to...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
Disruption has become the norm. As businesses try to keep pace with rapid change, IT support centers along with other core enterprise service groups are struggling to keep up with demand. How can they communicate effectively and maintain high standards of internal and external...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
Massive tech shifts are taking place in education, public services and healthcare. Billions of dollars are being spent on smart cities initiatives, learning environments, virtual programs, and healthcare settings. As a consequence, IT leaders are looking for new ways to address...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021
The most successful teams embrace healthy conflict around ideas.
Date Published May 30, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
This month, Jeff Rumburg looks at two commonly tracked service desk metrics for agent training: new agent training hours and annual agent training hours.
Date Published May 29, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
Feedback is important to personal growth and development. But sometimes you need to ask for it.
Date Published May 23, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
Roy Atkinson interviewed Donna Knapp about DevOps, ITSM, ITIL, organizational change, and more.
Date Published May 22, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
Apply these strategies to simplify triage and take charge of incident response.
Date Published May 21, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019