Service Desk

The Common Challenges in Managing and Delivering ITSM Processes

Posted by Rahavendran RS
on January 6, 2022

Most IT service management (ITSM) service providers face multiple challenges in IT Operations. This article has been written to help you to understand what these challenges are and offers associated recommendations for providing better ITSM processes and IT services.

How to Engender an Experience Management Culture in Your IT Organization

Posted by Sami Kallio
on December 30, 2021

This article by Sami Kallio explains why a culture change is needed to be successful with employee experience improvement and how to bring it about across the whole of IT.

What Has the Business got to Do with ITIL 4?

Posted by Paul Wilkinson
on December 15, 2021

Organizations must learn to deal with the unforgiving, harsh reality of business transformation and relentless change. How on Earth, does ITIL 4 make a difference?

The State of IT Self-Service in 2021

Posted by Stephen Mann
on October 6, 2021

This article presents some of the key survey findings of our State of IT Self-Service in 2021 report, including how only one in five organizations (21%) reported that the expected ROI for their IT self-service investment was achieved.

Using Experience Feedback to Up IT Service Desk Analyst Motivation

Posted by Sami Kallio
on September 30, 2021

Have you ever stopped to think about the effects – both positive and negative – of working on an IT service desk? This article digs into service-desk-analyst work motivation and how it impacts their performance.

Service Desk Improvement – 5 Steps to Drive Collaboration

Posted by Patrick Bolger
on July 6, 2021

This article by Patrick Bolger outlines five key steps for improving your operations and outcomes through the creation of the right environment for effective collaboration.

How Are Your IT Self-service Portal Benefits Doing?

Posted by Stephen Mann
on June 24, 2021

Where is your organization currently with IT self-service? Have you succeeded with benefit delivery? Or do you still need to start, improve, or restart your IT self-service capabilities? Help us know more about the current state of self-service in ITSM by taking our short survey.

Is It Time to Rethink Your Approach to the CMDB?

Posted by Stephen Mann
on May 18, 2021

The use of a configuration management database (CMDB) has long been the subject of ITSM debate. To help your CMDB thinking, and success, this article offers up three ways in which to rethink your organization’s use of its CMDB(s).

How to Better Manage an IT Service Desk in a WFA Era

Posted by Stephen Mann
on May 4, 2021

The global pandemic created new “work from home” (WFH) scenarios for IT support. Now this has morphed into “work from anywhere” (WFA), but what’s the IT support impact?

Enabling IT Self-Service with Intelligent Automation and Proactive Remediation

Posted by Stephen Mann
on April 6, 2021

What self-service improvements should your organization be aiming for? This article by Stephen Mann explores, along with looking at how IT service desks can benefit from intelligent automation in self-service.

Enterprise Service Desk: The Challenges (and it’s Not Just a Desk)

Posted by Roy Atkinson
on March 4, 2021

Enterprise service management has been largely viewed through the lens of IT, and the same is true of the enterprise service desk concept. But it’s time to rethink the approach says Roy Atkinson. Here he explains why and how.

What ITSM Practitioners Need to Know About Cybersecurity Threats in 2021

Posted by Jordan MacAvoy
on March 2, 2021

The cyber threats landscape is expected to change in 2021. As hackers discover new ways of compromising your business, ITSM personnel must be ready for any attack. Here’s what you need to know.

The ITIL 4 Service Desk Guide – Process, Practice, Function?

Posted by Jamie Bell
on February 25, 2021

This article by Jamie Bell focuses on one of the ITIL 4 Service Management Practices – the Service Desk practice. As well as the associated practice guide and what it entails. Get all the details here.

Flow Metrics Explained

Posted by David Stewart
on February 23, 2021

This article explains what flow metrics are and how they’ll help the operations and outcomes of your service teams and the people within them. Read David Stewart’s insights here.

What Do You Love Most About Working in IT?

Posted by Sophie Danby
on February 14, 2021

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I asked a number of people working in IT and ITSM roles what they love most about working in IT. The answers were varied and make for interesting reading. Take a look and see if it perhaps reinforces the reason(s) why you also love working in IT (or perhaps don’t).

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