Because rollouts require concentrated effort to complete work within a specified time, bringing in contractors to assist desktop support can be beneficial.
Tag(s): capacity management, desktop support, human resources, RESOURCES, staffing, supportworld, workforce enablement, contracting
Date Published October 19, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
The most successful incident escalation processes include a Well-defined process, Well-defined tools, and an open dialogue between the support center and all second-level teams receiving escalations.
Tag(s): escalation, KM, knowledge management, practices and processes, problem solving and troubleshooting, support operations, support center, supportworld
Date Published October 18, 2016 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed the merits and applications of skills-based routing and intelligent swarming.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, knowledge management, KM
Date Published October 18, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
SOPs are not only a critical success factor in maintaining the quality of service level management, but also maintaining consistency between employees and departments.
Tag(s): best practice, business alignment, IT service management, ITSM, practices and processes, process management, service management, support center, supportworld
Date Published October 13, 2016 - Last Updated August 15, 2018
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed the ways in which their organizations keep raising the bar for customer service.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, technical support, service management, service desk technology
Date Published October 11, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
In last week's #HDIchat, participants discussed their current ITSM/ticket management tools and plans for replacement.
Tag(s): hdichat, supportworld, technical support, service management, service desk technology
Date Published October 4, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
What if you could cut 75% of the time, cost, and distraction from the problem-solving process? By taking the best of today's collaboration tools and the war room approach, you can!
Tag(s): collaboration, communications technology, crowdsourcing, knowledge management, KM, ITSM, service desk, service management, supportworld
Date Published September 28, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Adopting a new framework or methodology requires study, planning, strategizing, and healthy doses of organizational change management for the support center.
Tag(s): focus series, supportworld, support center, best practice, change management, COBIT, devops, framework and methodologies, ITIL, ITSM, KCS
Date Published September 26, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Too often, information security is viewed as someone else’s job, and the goals of security (to protect) and customer service and support (to assist) are often at direct odds.
Tag(s): customer service, security management, support center, supportworld, training
Date Published September 21, 2016 - Last Updated December 15, 2016
Problem management doesn’t have to be complicated, and there is no wrong way of doing it, as long as it functions well and provides for the outcomes expected.
Tag(s): problem management, process management, service management, supportworld
Date Published September 14, 2016 - Last Updated December 1, 2017