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Customer service has changed a great deal over the last decade. Currently, one of the major trends has us all...

Tag(s): supportworld, incident management, webinars
Date Published - Last Updated September 12, 2017

 

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Incident management is one of the primary processes of a support center. In order to...

Tag(s): supportworld, incident management, webinars
Date Published - Last Updated December 21, 2016

 

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The HDI Service Improvement Award recognizes an organization that has successfully implemented or improved one or more service offerings. Attend this webinar to learn how the 2016...

Tag(s): community, membership, service management, continual service improvement, webinars, supportworld
Date Published - Last Updated January 24, 2017

 

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Managing languages is a significant challenge for most service desks. To arm leaders with data and insight, join HDI and Lionbridge as they unveil the...

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Date Published - Last Updated May 17, 2017

 

Most organizations think about communication best practices with reference to major outages, and events, but don’t consider the impact good communication can have on first contact resolution (FConR) and mean time to resolve (MTTR), even in a day-to-day context. Large outages attract a great...

Tag(s): communications skills, best practice, webinars, supportworld
Date Published - Last Updated October 13, 2015

 
In this webinar, Joe Ardizzone will present on the ins and outs of—and particularly the best practices associated with—alerts and monitoring. Both practices are typically associated with critical events and major incidents, but what are the possible applications of alerts and monitoring...
Tag(s): monitoring, webinars, supportworld
Date Published - Last Updated January 5, 2016

Tag(s): supportworld, webinars, asset management, configuration management
Date Published - Last Updated July 21, 2016

 

Catalog sprawl, or the existence of many service catalogs in a single organization, was identified as a problem by 66 percent of respondent organizations in recent HDI research (a further 19 percent identified it as "somewhat of a problem"). However, even though many organizations consider it...

Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, service catalog
Date Published - Last Updated February 23, 2016

 

The time has come for your organization to replace a key piece of technology. Senior management is on board, and money is available. Your frontline staff is thrilled that their tools will be updated. Now what?

Good technology and services cost good money, and tight budgets...

Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, return on investment - ROI, costs
Date Published - Last Updated August 17, 2016

 

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In this webinar, HDI’s senior writer/analyst, Roy Atkinson, will showcase new data from the 2016 Desktop Support Practices & Salary Survey. This data, previously...

Tag(s): webinars, supportworld, desktop support, research, benchmarking
Date Published - Last Updated October 25, 2016