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Customer expectations are continually rising, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. At the same time, IT leaders are feeling the pressure to do more with fewer resources and smaller teams. Finding the right balance between cost, quality, and speed has never been...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 

 

The modern organization needs to provide a reliable, secure way for customers, vendors, and remote employees to both access the resources they need to do their work, and to receive support where they are, when they need it. HDI’s annual research shows that Remote Control...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 

 

While it’s still early days for artificial intelligence (AI), it’s clear that AI means business. In a June 2020 study conducted by Omdia, researchers found that more than 50% of respondents had deployed or were planning to deploy AI in five of seven business...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 

 

Keeping remote teams engaged was a challenge before the pandemic. Here we are, one year later – with limited to no in-person team interaction – and finding ways to support impactful team interactions and understand skill and knowledge gaps can be challenging and...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

 

 

In recent research, HDI found that 32% of organizations were planning to adopt the principles and practices of service management in lines of business other than IT, in addition to the 27% who said they have already done so. Why are so many organizations adopting enterprise...

Tag(s): webinars, support models, supportworld, self-service, self-service tools, knowledge management
Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 24, 2021

 
The most successful teams embrace healthy conflict around ideas.
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, workforce enablement, team building, teamwork, leadership
Date Published May 30, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
This month, Jeff Rumburg looks at two commonly tracked service desk metrics for agent training: new agent training hours and annual agent training hours.
Tag(s): supportworld, metrics and measurements, workforce enablement, training
Date Published May 29, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Feedback is important to personal growth and development. But sometimes you need to ask for it.
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, workforce enablement
Date Published May 23, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Roy Atkinson interviewed Donna Knapp about DevOps, ITSM, ITIL, organizational change, and more.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, ITSM, devops, ITIL, podcast
Date Published May 22, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

 
Apply these strategies to simplify triage and take charge of incident response.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, ITSM
Date Published May 21, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019