Articles tagged with Service Desk

Duration Reports

Improve IT Service Desk Customer Experience with Duration Reports

If you’re not meeting the response time agreements you have with your customers can you explain why? If not, then here’s a potential solution – duration distribution reporting is a strategy that service managers can use to gain a deeper understanding of the lifecycle of a request in your organization. Here we explore…

ITSM is a Business Supplier?

Is IT Part of the Business or Just a Supplier?

IT is a critical business function, with any significant outage a disaster – exactly why the CIO should have a seat on the Board. So why does the question of whether IT is part of the business or a supplier persist? Is IT the victim of an injustice or maybe just super-bad at PR? Let’s take a look.

ESM in Education

The Growing Role of ESM in Education

How can enterprise service management (ESM) benefit educational institutions (schools and higher education) by making service delivery and support more efficient and effective through the leveraging of existing IT investments? Here we explore, with examples of what ESM looks like in the education sector.

Digital Transformation and IT Support

4 Ways Digital Transformation Affects IT Support

The new, and higher, expectations of digital consumers – which includes employees – now means that IT organizations need to reassess their IT support services and capabilities across four key areas including service support strategies and service desk operating models; here Sarah Lahav discusses all four.

ITSM Statistics

ITSM Statistics – Does IT Know the Business?

Here you’ll find our latest survey results related to ITSM pros and their business knowledge and focus – with the responses showing both positive and negative aspects of modern-day IT service delivery and support. Read on for analysis covering the likes of customer centricity and the business impact of IT issues.

Multiple Personalities on the IT Service Desk

3 Tips for Managing Multiple Personalities on the IT Service Desk

One of the most important aspects of being an IT Service Desk Manager is understanding the personalities of your team members. After all, if you don’t know what makes them tick, what motivates them, or what’s important to them, then how can you effectively manage them?

ITSM and ITIL In North America

The Current State and Future of ITSM and ITIL in North America

In this article ITSM authority Troy DuMoulin of Pink Elephant discusses good and poor ITIL behaviors in North America and what the world can learn from them; in addition to how he sees the new version of ITIL helping people in the future.

Artificial Intelligence and ITSM

Artificial Intelligence and ITSM: The Rise of the Future Is Upon Us

What can Artificial Intelligence really do for ITSM, and how can you get the most out of current AI opportunities for the IT service desk? This article explores, and also shares how AI and ITSM can combine to reduce tedious tasks and help us to better analyze large data sets.

Selfless service

Selfless Service — A New Mindset to Customer Service

We’re all familiar with ITSM and self-service, but are we doing it all wrong? This article looks at something called “selfless service” and how to makes the customer journey so much easier to deliver a better customer experience.

IT Service Desk

The Current Status and Perspectives of the IT Service Desk

This article looks at the work taking place at the University of Oviedo, to understand the current situation and possibilities for improving the IT service desk function within IT service teams, and to identify opportunities for service management improvement.

Measuring the value of service desk

How to Measure Service Desk Value

In this article, Aale Roos shares practical examples of how to best measure IT service desk value – and it doesn’t involve activity metrics such as availability and/or MTTR.

The Avengers as service desk agents

5 Tips for IT Service Desk Agent Recruitment from The Avengers

Inspired by the new Avengers: Infinity War movie, imagine if Nick Fury needed to recruit a new team of IT Service Desk Agents for S.H.I.E.L.D – here’s 5 Avengers-inspired traits that should be must haves on his (and any IT service desks) skills-requirements list.