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6 Ways AI Can Transform ITSM Tools
Truth to be told, in the future no one knows how advancements in AI will affect our lives. We have to wait and watch. But one thing is sure in terms of ITSM – AI will definitely change ITSM processes and practices. As such, this article digs a little deeper to see how AI will change future ITSM solutions.
9 DevOps and ITIL Tips
DevOps and ITIL stakeholders need a good understanding of each other and how their two worlds can work better together. This article describes the current friction points between the two groups and offers nine tips on how they need to work together for the best business outcomes.
How to Map the Service Desk User Journey for Better User Experiences
Providing a quality customer experience means devising a plan and sticking with it, but doing so requires a little customer journey mapping. Here Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord looks at the key steps for getting started with mapping your customer journeys, from the right questions to ask, to creating user personas.
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Service Desk Articles
ITSM Improvement: Tips for Succeeding with IT Self-Service
Providing employees with self-service access to IT services is commonly seen as a key initiative for overstretched IT service desks – with the aim of reducing costs, speeding up resolutions and provisioning, and delivering a better employee experience. But few...
5 Ways to Improve Your IT Service Desk
This article looks at 10 common challenges faced by IT service desks (equally applicable in enterprise service management scenarios) and how you can use them to identify and progress a number of opportunities to improve.
5 Steps to Improve Your IT Service Desk FCR
Maximizing the First Call Resolution (FCR) KPI (if used correctly) can deliver significant benefits to an organization, especially in optimizing the cost per contact, minimizing time to resolve, and improving customer satisfaction. Here we explain how.
ITSM Articles
6 Benefits of Visual Asset Dependency Mapping
Want to know more about visual asset dependency mapping? If so, then this article is for you. Please read on to find out more about why it’s essential for your datacenter along with the required steps – starting with the...
Experience Matters: 9 CX and ITSM Nuggets from Refresh19
In IT we need to go further than the mindset of “supporting the people, not the IT” to be more focused on the business-level outcomes achieved through what we do in IT. This article which offers up some of the...
The Future of ITSM – Survey Results 2019
This article shares the findings of our 2019 Future of ITSM survey, which covered 13 questions on topics such as ITSM best practice and new technologies. Key findings include that 84% of respondents think that working in IT will get...