Service Desk Articles

Kotter’s 8-step Model provides a comprehensive approach to change management and has been widely adopted globally. This article explains the model and how it helps with change management and enablement.
To measure, document, and report IT service availability in ways that will be helpful to your organization and your customers you need to do two things…
Here Daniel Breston takes a closer look at the ITIL 4 Service Value Chain and asks you to observe and consider the impact of what it depicts against the way you deliver value with technology-based solutions at your organization today.
How should a service desk deal with end user unresponsiveness? Here we look at various opinions sourced from the Back2ITSM Facebook group. First in 2016 and now in 2023.
How do you start to dealing with service desk agent stress. Here you’ll find 11 tips to reduce stress based on latest GFI Research findings.
This article is about a personal customer support experience with a very successful online retailer and what IT support organizations can learn from it.
Let’s stop reinforcing the fact that technical support fixes IT, it really fixes the issues people have because IT isn’t working.
Ever wondered what sage IT service desk and IT service management advice Dumbledore would offer to IT support teams and personnel? Well here you go…
Want to know what happened at this year’s itSMF UK conference and what some of the key ITSM nuggets and takeaways were? This personal reflection by Sophie Danby, on the itSMF UK 2025 conference, shares the standout sessions (attended), the themes that shaped the event, and what could improved.
Are you thinking about AI in IT in 2026? We’re rerunning our AI in IT survey with Atomicwork, collecting responses now to publish a fresh 2026 AI in IT report in time for the start of 2026. Please help everyone by adding your experiences and opinions.
In Q3 2025, PeopleCert collaborated with Accredited Tool Vendors (ATVs) and ITSM.tools on research to better understand where AI capabilities have been added to ITSM tools and what the future of AI in ITSM tools holds.
This article presents some key findings from the SolarWinds 2025 State of ITSM Report. With data from more than 2,000 ITSM systems and over 60,000 anonymized incident records, this year’s report takes a close look at how service teams are adapting to new tools, especially generative AI (GenAI), and what measurable results they’re seeing.
Discover how Unified Endpoint Management and Security (UEMS) solutions reduce IT help desk tickets, improve employee experience, and cut operational costs.
Given the complexity of today’s corporate IT infrastructures, your IT staff may face challenges in managing both system and network performance while ensuring the delivered end-user experience meets the agreed-upon standard and services are maintained without disruption. ITOM and ITSM integration will help.
Salesforce is starting to talk about ITSM. References to ITSM are now showing up in Service Cloud messaging and its “Agentforce” AI-building platform positioning. So far, it has been relatively low-key in my opinion: a Dreamforce announcement (that created a buzz), a few posts, a video, and a landing page that feels more like a placeholder than a full strategy. Is it less a bold announcement and more like a quick response to ServiceNow’s move into CRM? The big question is whether Salesforce’s entry into ITSM will have a real impact.