ITSM Articles

Service Request Processes

7 Tips to Optimize Service Request Processes for Digital Transformation

This article asks how we can possibly expect to achieve our digital transformation agenda without basic service request management building blocks in place, and offers up seven tips for optimizing your service request management capabilities as part of your organization’s digital transformation activities.
Leading a Team Through ITSM Change

4 Tips for Leading Employees Through ITSM Change

Leading a team through change can be tough. What if something doesn’t work as well as it did before? What if we create bigger problems? What if, what if…? But change doesn’t have to be scary – this article looks at the positive side of change and provides four tips for leading your ITSM employees through it.
ITSM Leader Coping With Bad Data

Why ITSM Leaders Must Care About Good Data

Have you spent enough time and energy assessing the quality of your ITSM data? No? This article explains why you, as an ITSM leader, need to prioritize and address your organization’s data quality issues, including poor data quality in ITSM.
SIAM Tips

10 Tips for Using SIAM to Deliver Better IT Services and Support

SIAM is an approach for managing multiple suppliers of business and IT services, seamlessly integrating them to provide a single business-facing IT organization and “end-to-end services” that meet business requirements. If you’re considering SIAM within your organization, here’s 10 tips to help.
Business Relationship Management Analyst

10 Tips for Business Relationship Management in ITSM

BRM is a great ITSM capability that helps IT organizations to focus on, and to deliver against, the wants and needs, and expectations, of IT service consumers and providers. But how should your organization start out? The following ten tips should help your IT organization to get started on its BRM journey.
ITSM Solution Replacement

Hey, Why Did You Change Your ITSM Solution?

If you’ve changed your ITSM tool in the last two years, or are planning to, please can you spare us 30 seconds to let us know why? We last ran this poll in 2017, and will be using the latest results to report on whether or not the key drivers for switching tool have or haven’t changed over the years.
Managed Hosting Services

Managed Hosting Services: How Can Customers Benefit?

Though self-hosted options may appear the easiest and most cost-effective, they can pale in comparison to the benefits of managed hosting services. This article looks at how managed hosting functions as a service model, as well as the myriad of benefits it presents to both customers and business owners.
Artificial Intelligence Robiti holding AI

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.
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.
Visual Asset Dependency Mapping

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 auto-discovery of assets – including six key benefits it delivers.
Cloud Myths

3 Cloud Myths Debunked

There are still organizations out there that are loath to make the move to the cloud. Sometimes the reasons for staying on-premises are very real, but sometimes it might be a case of believing many of these nigh decade-old cloud myths…
Automation and Chatbots

Redefining Enterprise-Level ITSM Through AI-Powered Smart Automation and Chatbots

It’s a simple fact that the impact of Artificial Intelligence on service desks will become valued when AI is able to perform the mediocre tasks service desk teams would rather not do, as well as the actions humans struggle with. With that in mind, this article looks at where AI is taking, and will take, IT support.
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.
Cloud migration

8 Tips for Building a Seamless Cloud Migration Strategy

When it comes to cloud migration, IT decision makers often worry about things such as moving complex workloads and possible data loss – but it doesn’t have to be problematic. In this article we share eight tips for building a seamless cloud migration strategy that will help your organization to get things right.
Well-being and Mental Health

Improve IT Support’s Well-being and Mental Health

The service desk can be a stressful environment. The sheer number of calls – and the potentially stressful nature of those calls – can progressively affect agents and their wellbeing. This article looks at possible wellbeing issues on the service desk and offers advice on how to best tackle, or ideally, prevent them.