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 experience with IT. Those tips ranged from how to make it easier for customers to contact the service desk, to the importance of writing good call notes. Here, in part two […]
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Many of us in IT service management (ITSM) talk about the IT service desk as if we already have it all perfect (or as close to perfect [...]
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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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Getting IT help desk, or IT service desk, staffing right can be very difficult. Especially when budgets are tight, and IT help desk [...]
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It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost upon us and we will no longer get those “IT service management (ITSM) in 2020” blogs that were [...]
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AIOps is becoming “the next big thing” in the IT management world because the technology employed, and IT operations, have changed [...]
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Chatbots are coming to the IT service desk, and why wouldn’t they? They’ve the potential to reduce workload for your agents, increase [...]
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The role of an IT service desk manager is an important one within IT service management (ITSM) but it isn’t a role that’s suitable to [...]
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A new version of the ITIL IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – ITIL 4 – was released early in 2019. It was big news [...]
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Mental health and wellbeing have become popular business-media topics in recent years and I’m really pleased to see that this focus has [...]
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Hey, did you hear that I’ve had an IT service management (ITSM) solution named after me? Oops, sorry it seems that this isn’t what I [...]
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Major incidents are stressful. They’re the boogiemen of IT issues, which adversely affect business operations and outcomes. ITIL 4 [...]
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Workplace stress has been a topic of research for many years but the condition itself seems to be on the rise – with one study finding [...]
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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.