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4 Building Blocks to Modernize the Service Desk

 

For years, service desks and support centers have been optimizing the way they work. By doing so, they’ve been able to keep up with increasing demand for services, but not able to leap ahead. Now there is the promise of emerging, enhanced technologies to assist users and...

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

Enterprise Service Management, AI, and Emerging Technologies

 

Is enterprise service management (ESM) merely a hype term, or are organizations actually doing it? What are the business drivers for expanding service management out of IT and across the organization? Which lines of business are adopting service management? What advantages does...

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

IT Change Management in a High-Speed World

 

Organizations are increasingly caught between competing goals: They must meet compliance and cybersecurity requirements and produce stable technology environments while simultaneously allowing for high-velocity changes. How can these competing goals be managed?

In the...

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

The Future of ITSM in Education, Public Sector and Healthcare

 

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

Unlocking Your Workforce Potential: IT Support from Anywhere to Anywhere

 

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

Move Forward by Shifting Left: Enabling Self-Service and First-Level Resolution in 2021

 

We could all use a little more time in our schedule, but something new pops up every time we catch our breath. We cannot always anticipate the unexpected, but we can take steps to handle the work we know about more efficiently. For example, password reset requests persistently...

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

The State of the Industry: A Mid-Year Research Roundup

 

HDI conducts extensive research throughout the year. In this webinar, we will review our 2019 research to date, examine what it means for the industry, and suggest areas that leaders should be paying attention to, including possible courses of action. We will review the latest...

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

Transformative Training: Producing Ongoing Results

 

Transformative training contains key components that are critical the learning process, and the learning process is critical to shaping attitudes and behaviors in the support organization. In this webinar, we’ll discuss four key components of transformative training that...

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