The previous year was a pivotal one for service management, helping the profession prove its worth within companies. The coming year will continue to offer opportunities for digital optimization, enhanced employee experience, more automation, and wider use of knowledge management.
Tag(s): supportworld, chat, automation, employee engagement, employee satisfaction, knowledge management, knowledge-management-systems
Date Published November 24, 2020 - Last Updated November 23, 2020
Service level agreements are often driven and defined entirely by IT people without collaboration or agreement, and as such they are only concerned with measuring individual IT components, rather than the cumulative sum effect of these, as they are used. Here is a discussion of a different way.
Tag(s): supportworld, best practice, agile, business alignment, customer satisfaction, framework and methodologies, KPI, practices, relationship
Date Published November 11, 2020 - Last Updated November 17, 2020
Changes in scope of Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) can support organizations to shift rapidly to remote work when the next pandemic or disaster strikes. This is the final part of the “Bringing Service Home” series, which focuses on ways to operate IT service remotely.
Tag(s): supportworld, best practice, business continuity, business continuity planning, continuity management, disaster recovery, remote support tools
Date Published November 2, 2020 - Last Updated October 30, 2020
A restaurant kitchen may seem like chaos, and yet it functions well even during surges in demand and unexpected challenges. Adaptability, clear communications, and a commitment to an orderly and efficient process help things run smoothly. Many IT departments could learn a thing or two about this.
Tag(s): supportworld, best practice, agile, capacity management, change management, communications skills
Date Published October 1, 2020 - Last Updated October 20, 2020
The Service and Support Awards showcase individuals and teams that excel at service and support and elevate their businesses by maintaining the highest standards.
Tag(s): supportworld, workforce enablement, workforce enablement, support center, service management, service desk, technology, metrics and measurements, desktop support, customer experience
Date Published August 13, 2020 - Last Updated January 20, 2023
It’s no secret that we spend time on a lot of monotonous tasks. Why haven’t we automated everything away?
Tag(s): supportworld, automation, workforce enablement, ITSM, service desk, service management
Date Published August 11, 2020 - Last Updated December 10, 2020
For IT to evolve from being functional to outcome driven, they must know what brings value and revenue to the business.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, service desk, support center, business value, business alignment, agile, ITIL
Date Published July 29, 2020 - Last Updated December 10, 2020
The industry has rediscovered that technology is not an end unto itself, but that its function is to serve and support people.
Tag(s): supportworld, service management, ITSM, technology, framework and methodologies
Date Published June 30, 2020 - Last Updated December 10, 2020
Industry experts and practitioners discussed the future of service and support in this one-day virtual summit.
Tag(s): supportworld, coronavirus, customer experience, customer service, desktop support, metrics and measurements, service management, support center, technology, workforce enablement, workforce enablement
Date Published May 29, 2020 - Last Updated December 10, 2020
The IT culture we’ve known will not survive in the 2020s. It is up to us whether IT provides the competitive advantage that helps our companies survive.
Tag(s): supportworld, coronavirus, workforce enablement, workforce enablement, technology, culture
Date Published May 27, 2020 - Last Updated December 10, 2020