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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Many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of implementing self-service, especially as we endure the blowback of 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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The corporate IT help desk, or IT service desk, has long been under pressure to “deliver more with less.” With the actions taken [...]
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The service catalog is one of the most useful technology products in IT service management (ITSM) today. Done well, it acts as a [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be [...]
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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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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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Much of the IT service management (ITSM) best practice guidance tells us that ITSM software should “come after” people and processes, [...]
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Questions around the performance of IT self-service, compared to more traditional IT support access and communication channels, opens [...]
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Who doesn’t love the holidays? The feeling of goodwill, the great TV, seeing friends and family. How awesome is the holiday period? But [...]
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In my previous blog, I offered up eight tips for getting started with self-service. Here I offer another seven. 9. Plan Ahead for [...]
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Self-service for IT is one of those things that’s relatively easy to “do” but not so easy to get right, i.e. to deliver a capability [...]
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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.