As the support center continues to grow in its abilities to support users, the IT industry is putting a new focus on the solve rate. In the past, the industry strongly emphasized tier I overall and first-call solve rates. While these metrics remain extremely important, a support center seeking...
Tag(s): white paper, service desk, metrics and measurements, service management, best practice
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015
Are you on a path to become an ITIL v3 Expert? You're not alone. Many consultants, practitioners, and job seekers see this certification as a means of improving their work and IT opportunities. How can you successfully prepare yourself for the long and arduous road to certification? Follow these...
Tag(s): white paper, ITIL, framework, process, training, culture, people, framework and methodologies
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
Service quality is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, and the customer experience is an essential part of service quality. If you remove the customer as the main focus of a service quality strategy, you will lose sight of the purpose around creating and delivering a consistent, quality...
Tag(s): white paper, customer satisfaction, customer service, business of support, process, service quality, best practice, culture
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
One of the “quality problems” to have, as your business grows, is the challenge of managing all of your resources. This white paper will present some easy ways to successfully implement and deploy a configuration management database (CMDB), and explain how you can adopt a CMDB for rest of the IT.
Tag(s): white paper, configuration management, asset management
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
High-performing IT organizations recognize the need to control and account for the IT assets that provide support for their IT infrastructure and service level agreements. A solid configuration management process, supported by an easy to‐use and information-rich configuration management database...
Tag(s): white paper, process, ITIL, best practice, practices and processes, configuration management, change management
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015
IT organizations are under intense pressure to reduce the cost of managing IT and ensure that decisions are based on business value and business priorities. Many are turning to the ITIL for guidance on how to meet these demands. But ITIL isn't a panacea; it's a set of guidelines. It’s left up to...
Tag(s): white paper, service management, ITSM, ITIL, IT service management, framework and methodologies
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
This white paper focuses on building a business intelligence (BI) strategy that aligns with the enterprise goals, improves knowledge management, advances business by making the best use of information, enables BI penetration into the business processes, and helps enterprise with strategic,...
Tag(s): white paper, business of support, business intelligence, business alignment, knowledge management
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 30, 2015
In this white paper, the different paths to ITIL Expert are discussed, looking at both the lifecycle and capability paths, the target audience for each path, typical roles and responsibilities, and the reasons why you might want to choose the capability or lifecycle path. The benefits of the...
Tag(s): white paper, framework, ITIL, training, process, framework and methodologies, best practice
Date Published April 29, 2015 - Last Updated April 29, 2015
If your organization is invested in sharing knowledge, the five measures presented in this article will help you report on progress and reinforce behaviors.
Tag(s): KM, knowledge management, metrics and measurements, process-improvement, reporting-and-analytics, service management, KCS, ITSM, IT service management, supportworld
Date Published April 23, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Is ITSM still relevant in the mobile age? Absolutely. ITSM and ITIL can and should provide the overall framework within which Agile development can successfully operate, developing and deploying apps that are part of a service fit for purpose and effective use in a mobile environment.
Tag(s): mobility, service management, ITSM, agile, framework and methodologies, supportworld
Date Published April 7, 2015 - Last Updated May 11, 2016