Category: KPIs and Metrics


IT metrics

What to Measure: Structuring IT Metrics to Improve Performance

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. In particular, because many more of us – both in IT and from a customer perspective – are now working from home. It means that customers have different needs […]

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ITSM Basics: 6 Top Tips to Reduce MTTR

It’s important that we, as IT service management (ITSM) pros, all know about the value stream and service quality – but sometimes [...]

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Staff Morale

Why Is IT Service Desk Staff Morale Finally Important?

Does your IT organization measure staff morale levels, particularly IT service desk morale? The latest Service Desk Institute [...]

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Self-Service or Not, What We Can’t Measure Is Important Too

Questions around the performance of IT self-service, compared to more traditional IT support access and communication channels, opens [...]

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Value of configuration management

How Much Configuration Management Is Enough?

If configuration management is about capturing, maintaining, and using information about your assets, then every organization has some [...]

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IT balanced scorecard

10 Reasons Why a Bad IT Balanced Scorecard Is Worse than None at All

Using an IT balanced scorecard will help your IT organization to focus on the right things – for both delivering against business needs [...]

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KPIs

Don’t Use Other People’s KPIs

Some time ago I was involved in a discussion about whether First Call Resolution Rate (FCR) is a good KPI for incident management. [...]

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Don't sink your service desk reporting

5 Metrics Mistakes Sinking Your Service Desk Reporting and What You Should Do About It

It’s that time of the week, month, year; your service desk report is due and you’re drowning in spreadsheets and graphs. Yes, you could [...]

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Lean ITSM

ITSM KPIs: No More Blah, Blah, Blah, Just Boom, Boom, Boom

One of my favorite quotes about metrics and KPIs is: “Don’t measure me on cost or traditional IT metrics, but on the metrics of [...]

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Making ITSM Metrics Work

Many people and organizations seem to struggle with metrics, reporting, analytics, and demonstrating value from IT service management [...]

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For Heaven’s Sake, Please Take The Meh Out Of Your Service Desk Metrics

What is it with IT people and metrics? We seem to be obsessed with monitoring this and measuring that. And don’t get me started with [...]

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Joe

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.