Articles tagged with Service Desk

Remote Help Desk

What’s a Remote Help Desk and How Do You Set One Up?

The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the need for remote support and the operation of a remote IT help desk. This article explains how the introduction of a remote IT help desk can be achieved – transforming IT support personnel who are acting independently into a cohesive – and more efficient and effective – IT support capability.

COVID-19 ITSM

How COVID-19 Will Change ITSM – a Crowdsourced Perspective

In difficult times, while there needs to be attention on the firefighting at hand, it’s also good to look to the future. So, in this article we asked 36 people from all walks of ITSM to share their thoughts and opinions on how COVID-19 is going to impact the future of ITSM.

Service Desk Reporting

It’s Time to Improve your IT Service Desk Reporting

If your organization is investing significant time in creating performance reports that aren’t being read or acted upon by your department, then it’s time to put that right. To help, this article provides five IT service desk reporting tips. Take a look!

ITSM in 2020

ITSM in 2020: Five Important Trends to Watch

Most changes in ITSM are not quick to come to fruition, as such it’s highly unlikely that ‘trends’ like AI will take the field by storm as many have predicted. But what then should we expect in 2020? This article looks at five trends that may indeed change service management in the year ahead.

Continual Improvement Register

Do You Need to Invest in Your Continual Improvement Register?

When undertaking continual improvement it’s advisable to have a list of what you’d like to improve, which ITIL 4 calls a Continual Improvement register, and this article by Joe the IT Guy looks at what’s needed to keep your continual improvement register useful.

Service Management in 2020 Key Challenges

Service Management in 2020 – the 6 Key Challenges

This article looks at a recent report that offers guidance to IT departments entitled “Brex-IT – How will public sector IT cope in 2020?” and discusses how the challenges highlighted within the report are applicable to service management in 2020.

Service Catalog

3 Ways to Benefit from a Service Catalog

Done well, a service catalog will act as a single, consistent source of information to employees for all of the IT and business services available to them. But how should your organization leverage a service catalog? This article shares advice on how to best exploit a service catalog as a multifaceted ITSM capability.

Artificial Intelligence: A Journey

Artificial Intelligence: A Journey, Not an End Goal

There’s increasingly a culture by which people see current AI capabilities a let-down. That’s because science-fiction-based expectations – so let’s get rid of them and take a look at how AI has actually evolved and will continue to evolve in reality.

IT Service Desk Knowledge Management

How to Improve Your IT Service Desk Knowledge Management

Want to know what IT service desks that succeed with knowledge management do differently? Here we share eight tips based on what successful IT service desks have done to achieve their knowledge management success to help you on your own knowledge management journey.

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.

IT Service Desk Challenges

5 Key IT Service Desk Challenges and How to Overcome Them

It sort of goes without saying that your IT service desk is currently facing a number of challenges that affect its ability to serve and support employees and customers. To help, this article looks at five key service desk challenges in more detail as well as how to overcome them. 

Translation Services for IT Service Desks

How Translation Services Help Support Teams

Accurate translation is often crucial to providing quality customer service and support. With that in mind, and to better describe the need for, and opportunity of, translation services, here’s a list of three ways in which your customer support operations will benefit from them.

How to Provide Great Service on the IT Service Desk

How to Provide Great Service on the IT Service Desk

IT support teams have made great strides in improving their approach to customer service, but there’s still so much more that can be done. To help, this article offers up 10 tips for providing a great service on your organization’s IT service desk.

IT Service Catalog

Tips for an IT Service Catalog for High Employee Engagement

This article offers up four tips to assist with the creation of your organization’s IT service catalog, from using the ‘menu’ concept through to writing your service catalog content with your end users in mind. Read the tips here.