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How Enterprise Service Management Can Learn from Digital Transformation Initiatives
While information of enterprise service management successes and failures can be hard to access, here we suggest that the more readily available digital transformation stories can be conveniently applied to corporate enterprise service management strategies and their execution.
The Software Support and Maintenance Review Process Explained (in Time for ITIL 4)
With ITAM now considered part of ITIL 4 best practice, this article helps with a process that might not be considered as a core SAM capability, but should be in place if your organization wants to make best use of the valuable asset data at its disposal – the Software Support and Maintenance Review process.
The Importance of Managed Emotional Metrics in ITSM
This article focuses on the importance of emotional metrics. Opinions are subjective of course, however the power of human instinct and feeling should not be ignored. If the customer perceives the service to be sub-par, then the chances are this is the case – regardless of the attainment of any SLA!
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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.
4 Ways to Increase You IT Service Desk’s Customer Satisfaction Scores
This article shares a number of proven tips that can dramatically improve your customer satisfaction survey scores. They're all relatively simple and can be easily adopted by your IT service desk to achieve the results you want with your customers....
8 Tips for Better IT Service Desk Metrics
Here we delve into the top 10 IT service desk metrics according to industry research, before looking at the 8 common metrics mistakes made on the service desk – plus their impact. Plus we look at what needs to be...
ITSM Articles
The Importance of Managed Emotional Metrics in ITSM
This article focuses on the importance of emotional metrics. Opinions are subjective of course, however the power of human instinct and feeling should not be ignored. If the customer perceives the service to be sub-par, then the chances are this...
4 Tips for Improving the User Experience
This article by Kevin Smith looks at four things that can improve the user experience and help deliver the maximum value from the systems of IT across the business and to the people that are the lifeblood of the organization...
Will Your ITSM Data Issues Deliver Bad Experiences and Bad Bots?
In this article, we consider whether your average ITSM team is able to really take advantage of the opportunities that digital transformation, customer experience, and AI technologies offer. Specifically, to help you to better understand if your ITSM team is...