Best practices in call handling can enhance the customer experience and dramatically help improve the perceived value of your support center.
Tag(s): supportworld, support operations, support center, desktop support, customer satisfaction
Date Published February 29, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Organizations that provide exceptional service do it by working together, as one company, instead of several smaller companies that have cobbled their services together.
Tag(s): culture, customer satisfaction, hdi conference, people
Date Published February 2, 2016 - Last Updated October 5, 2016
Understanding how to apply power and influence can benefit you, personally and professionally, but it can also help you help others.
Tag(s): culture, hdi conference, leadership, people
Date Published February 1, 2016 - Last Updated May 22, 2017
In this update to the 2014 road map, the DSAB articulates the continuing evolution of desktop support, including the skills needed, and industry trends, such as cloud computing, shadow IT, BYOD, virtualization, security needs, and consumerization.
Tag(s): desktop support, HDI, business value, leadership, service strategy, technology, supportworld
Date Published January 13, 2016 - Last Updated October 5, 2016
Many IT organizations struggle with user adoption when they release their first service portal. The user experience is the key to a successful service portal.
Tag(s): customer experience, customer satisfaction, customer service, knowledge management, service catalog, support center, support channels, supportworld
Date Published January 12, 2016 - Last Updated April 10, 2017
When your CSAT score is stuck at a once-revered 85 percent and you're being challenge to improve customer experience, what should you do? Welcome to adaptive quality management, the goal of which is to improve operational quality in order to drive higher customer satisfaction.
Tag(s): customer-satisfaction-measurement, customer satisfaction, hdi conference, business value, quality management
Date Published January 8, 2016 - Last Updated October 5, 2016
Contact center metrics such as First Call Resolution (FCR) can become difficult to measure when new channels are introduced into a service model.
Tag(s): customer satisfaction, customer-satisfaction-measurement, desktop support, first call resolution, metrics and measurements, multichannel support, reporting, social media, support channels, supportworld
Date Published December 17, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
First call resolution (FCR) is about answering or solving the customer’s problems on the first call, as quickly and for the least cost possible.
Tag(s): best practice, customer satisfaction, costs, desktop support, first call resolution, continual service improvement, incident management, metrics and measurements, process management, process-improvement, return on investment - ROI, supportworld
Date Published December 8, 2015 - Last Updated May 20, 2016
This program reduces incident counts and resolution times and increases support staff skills for getting to root causes and eliminating the incidents they cause.
Tag(s): benchmarking, best practice, business value, costs, incident management, leadership, process-improvement, professional development, root cause analysis, support center, supportworld, training, service management
Date Published November 24, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
The HDI Service Management Awards recognize excellence and honor support organizations that have generated positive, measurable results in IT service management.
Tag(s): business alignment, business value, continual service improvement, IT service management, IT-business alignment, ITSM, KCS, leadership, process-improvement, service management, support center, supportworld
Date Published November 17, 2015 - Last Updated December 1, 2017