The COVID-19 crisis changed the world forever. It changed society. It changed businesses. And it also changed IT support. The need to support a massive increase in home workers, in particular, meant that not only were remote support tools the order of the day, hopes were also pinned on IT self-service capabilities for both [...]
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I don’t need to tell you that much has changed during 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 crisis. Not only for IT service management (ITSM) and [...]
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For many IT service desks, it can be a challenge to consistently achieve a high customer satisfaction (CSAT) score, meet service level [...]
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Following on from my previous enterprise service management blog, here’s more tips on how to get started. As a quick recap, part 1 [...]
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Enterprise service management – that’s the use of IT service management (ITSM) thinking, principles, best practice processes, and [...]
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Many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of implementing self-service, especially as we endure the blowback of the [...]
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In these difficult times caused by the COVID-19 crisis, there’s an increased focus on IT service delivery and support performance. In [...]
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It’s tough working in IT support at the best of times and during the COVID-19 crisis, I think we can all agree that these are not the [...]
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During these difficult times, we need to appreciate all the people involved in IT support and how they’re often keeping employees and [...]
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Given the current issues that the world is facing with COVID-19, there’s a need for IT-related focus and firefighting to maintain [...]
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Covid-19 has necessitated change in the way that we to work in IT, along with the ways of working for the people we serve and support. [...]
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Organizations are becoming more worried about IT skills shortages. You might have been personally concerned about them for a while in [...]
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In my last blog I gave you five tips that will help to make your IT service desk better, particularly in improving your customer’s [...]
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So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.