Employee Experience Articles

User Experience on the IT Service Desk

How to Improve User Experience on the IT Service Desk

Internally focused performance-based metrics are essential and remain relevant, but they don’t provide any insight into the user experience. To gain actual insight into user satisfaction, you need to change your metrics. Here we explain how, and the best way to go about it.
Measuring Customer Satisfaction

6 Tips for Measuring Customer Satisfaction

This article serves as a quick guide to help you create reliable measures for assessing customer satisfaction, complete with 6 useful tips.
XLAs: Rethinking End-User KPIs for ITSM

From SLAs to XLAs: Rethinking End-User KPIs for ITSM

Are you still using the same old metrics, key performance indicators, and reactive processes to manage new and modern technologies? It’s time to broaden the scope of your metrics towards XLAs, here David D’Agostino looks at why and how to move past traditional SLAs.
Service Desk User Journey

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.
Customer experience CX

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 key learning points from Refresh19 London – a Freshworks customer event – aims to help you achieve this.
User experience

4 Tips for Great 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 – including setting clear goals, and transparent design and user testing.
Customer satisfaction

4 Ways to Increase Your 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. Take a look here.
Customer service

Customer Service is the Elephant in the Room of ITSM

In Aale Roos’ opinion, not a single ITSM framework, standard, or concept is really customer-centric in the sense that customer service would be an important element in it – and so here he asks “where are we, and where should we be, with customer service in ITSM?”
ITSM and Customer Journeys

Improve Customers Experience with Customer Journeys

Want to deliver excellent services? Want to start improving customer experience, but have no clue where to start? As with anything related to your customers, it’s often best to start with the customers and their journey(s) – so take a look at these five actions to help you on the road to success.
ITSM Topics for 2019

Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You, and Your Peers, in 2019?

Which IT service management (ITSM) topics would you like to see our content focus on in 2019? Please take our quick poll and then read on to find out more about a year in the life of ITSM.tools’ content and readership, and to see how we shaped our content plan around last year’s votes.
Employee-Focused Service Management Strategy

How IT Can Lead Employee-Focused Service Management Strategy

We need to rethink the service delivery process and shift our mindsets as service providers away from that of closing tickets (submitted by end users) to instead prioritizing the needs of employees first! But how do you successfully do this? Here you’ll find five tips to get you started.
Customer and Employee Experience

What ITSM Pros Need to Know About Customer and Employee Experience

Some corporate IT organizations feel uncomfortable with the term “customer experience” when referring to internal end users. So, is employee experience a better term? And if it is, what are the barriers to success and how can you get it right? This article explains all.
People an ITSM Hot Topics

ITSM Hot Topics: And in Last Place… People

Why is it that in the list of recently published ITSM hot topics, “people” topics come nowhere near the top? Do people not understand that business change is not built on process and technology, it’s built on people. Read more here.
Customer Experience (CX) and IT Service Desks

What Does Customer Experience (CX) Mean for IT Service Desks?

The signs of the growing customer experience adoption are already here and impacting the world of ITSM. In this article, Stephen Mann shares the latest industry statistics related to CX and the service desk, and why you should take note.
Employee Experience

Employee Experience is The Only Metric You Need

How do you make employee experience your most meaningful IT service management metric? Here Pasi Nikkanen shares his insights.