Faced with a 40% turnover on the service desk, this manager tried a different approach to interviewing analyst and technician candidates, with great success.
Date Published June 6, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
As service and support leaders, it’s our job to enable and foster the environment, create the process, and engage our teams throughout the learning experience.
Date Published June 5, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019
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
While it’s still early days for artificial intelligence (AI), it’s clear that AI means business. In a June 2020 study conducted by Omdia, researchers found that more than 50% of respondents had deployed or were planning to deploy AI in five of seven business...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
Customer expectations are continually rising, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. At the same time, IT leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with fewer resources and smaller teams. Finding the right balance between cost, quality, and speed has never been...
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021
In a recent poll of senior IT leaders by HDI, 60% of respondents said their top priority is business transformation, and 64% said they are investing in solutions to support business transformation. Digital transformation touches every aspect of business and depends upon...
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
If your organization’s goal is to reduce friction so your customers can experience your products and services in new and exciting ways, you’re going to need to rethink how and why you’re doing what you’ve always done. More and more people are gaining...
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
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