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Metric of the Month: Service Desk Cost per Ticket

Cost per ticket is the total monthly operating expense of a service desk divided by the monthly ticket volume. Do you know your cost per ticket?
Date Published May 2, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

#HDIchat Recap: How Do You Write Great Email to Customers?

Email is still an important channel for support centers, and good written communication is not to be taken for granted.
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

Drive KCS Adoption with an UFFA Balanced Scorecard

A new UFFA scoring method could help you gain a new appreciation for KCS expectations for your tech support staff and give you an action plan for optimizing KCS.
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Mission of Tech Support Has Changed

The mission of technical support has been to get people back to work quickly after an incident or for a service request. But that can no longer be our primary mission.
Date Published April 26, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019

What Works in Training: Repetition

To help learning stick, repetition in a variety of different ways is one of the most important tools a trainer has.
Date Published April 25, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Myth of Proactive Problem Management - Part 4

Learn why changing our data source from cases to articles moves us from reactive to proactive problem management for tech support.
Date Published April 20, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Conundrum of Healthcare IT Support: Can Technology Help?

We are on the threshold of an era when we can take advantage of advanced technologies to assist us and, more importantly, those we support.
Date Published April 19, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

#HDIchat Recap: How Do You Get Your Team Obsessed with Service?

This #HDIchat tackled the topic of getting your team obsessed with service. Jeff Toister joined the Twitter chat as our guest expert.
Date Published April 17, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Myth of Proactive Problem Management - Part 3

You can use two analysis techniques, combined with the relevant data from your knowledge repository, to help problem management start to fulfill its promise.
Date Published April 12, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

It Will Be Different

Technology hard trends in artificial intelligence, cyber security systems, cloud computing, data analytics, and virtualization will shape the future of tech support.
Date Published April 11, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017