The service catalog is one of the most useful technology products in IT service management (ITSM) today. Done well, it acts as a single, consistent source of information for all of the IT and business services that are available to the organization. Making up part of the overall service portfolio along with the pipeline of [...]
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Nowadays, chatbots seem to be all the rage and it’s fair to say that, over the past couple of years, they’ve developed into a pretty [...]
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IT service desks are probably the most measured – in terms of performance – part of the IT organization. And they, and their people are [...]
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There are three common IT service management (ITSM) areas where IT service desks often state that they’re struggling, or at least say [...]
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Once upon a time, there were only a few ways employees could get IT help. They could phone a help desk number, hoping to get a person [...]
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“I’ve had a penetration test done, so the service is secure!” (Firstly, no jokes please…) Too often, in my travels visiting a variety [...]
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Self-service on the IT service desk is no longer a new concept – with 70-80% of IT service desks having implemented some form of [...]
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OK, it’s a bit of a clickbait-y title – but we need to question whether the current “handling” of IT support customer satisfaction [...]
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Ticket escalations are a staple of any IT service desk – where there’s a constant flow of incidents and service requests coming in. [...]
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I’ve written a lot about how internal IT support and IT service management (ITSM) are changing – from the impact of consumerization [...]
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A known error database (KEDB) is a place for your organization’s IT department to store all of its “known errors.” “Known what’s?” I [...]
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One of the most popular, and “strongest,” industry measures of IT service management (ITSM) and IT service desk performance is customer [...]
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In the SysAid eBook “Skills and Capabilities Required of a 2020 ITSM Professional,” various industry experts talk about the [...]
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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.