It should not take a crisis to generate a meeting between support center and desktop support managers to keep the relationship between the two groups on track.
Tag(s): desktop support, support center, supportworld, forums, forums-desktop, forums-sclf
Date Published May 17, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
To provide great customer service, consider hiring talent with empathy, empowering your team to make decisions, and creating relationships among team members.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, customer experience, customer service
Date Published May 10, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
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.
Tag(s): supportworld, technical support, research, business of support
Date Published April 26, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
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.
Tag(s): supportworld, technology, self-service tools, self-service, technical support, trends
Date Published April 19, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Technology hard trends in artificial intelligence, cyber security systems, cloud computing, data analytics, and virtualization will shape the future of tech support.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, technology, future of support, cloud, security management
Date Published April 11, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
In training, you can guide learners’ attention to what is most important by using repetition, telling stories, asking questions, and creating relevant hands-on activities.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, workforce enablement, training
Date Published March 29, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
Problem management is supposed to help identify and remediate the underlying causes of unplanned interruptions (incidents) to services.
Tag(s): supportworld, problem management, service management, support center, hdichat
Date Published March 27, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019
In order for support organizations to be truly successful, ticket documentation should be an every time event, not a sometimes event.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, support center, training, business value
Date Published March 23, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
SLAs establish a minimum level of service a tech support organization will provide to customers.
Tag(s): supportworld, SLA, service level agreement, service management, support center
Date Published March 22, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017
We often hear about the skills drought in IT and how difficult it is to find qualified staff. Follow these steps to improve your chances of finding the right candidate.
Tag(s): supportworld, support center, workforce enablement, human resources, people, service desk, job descriptions
Date Published March 21, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017