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AI Means Business: A Panel Discussion on Modernizing Knowledge Management

 

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

Employ Interactive Virtual Training to Address Skill Gaps and Engage Teams

 

Keeping remote teams engaged was a challenge before the pandemic. Here we are, one year later – with limited to no in-person team interaction – and finding ways to support impactful team interactions and understand skill and knowledge gaps can be challenging and...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

Knowledge Management, Enterprise Service Management, and the Customer Journey

 

In recent research, HDI found that 32% of organizations were planning to adopt the principles and practices of service management in lines of business other than IT, in addition to the 27% who said they have already done so. Why are so many organizations adopting enterprise...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

Future Forward: Executive Strategy in a New Complex World

 

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

Exercise Conflict to Gain Commitment

The most successful teams embrace healthy conflict around ideas.
Date Published May 30, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Metric of the Month: Agent Training Hours

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

Finding Feedback to Prevent Burnout

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

Single Point of Contact: Donna Knapp

Roy Atkinson interviewed Donna Knapp about DevOps, ITSM, ITIL, organizational change, and more.
Date Published May 22, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Modernizing Incident Response

Apply these strategies to simplify triage and take charge of incident response.
Date Published May 21, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Marriott’s Missteps with Rebrand to Bonvoy: 3 Service Management Lessons for Customer Satisfaction

Before you make major changes to your environment, be sure you have good service management practices and principles in place to avoid poor customer satisfaction.
Date Published May 16, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019