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5 Key IT Service Desk Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Posted by Michael Deane
on September 17, 2019

It sort of goes without saying that your IT service desk is currently facing a number of challenges that affect its ability to serve and support employees and customers. To help, this article looks at five key service desk challenges in more detail as well as how to overcome them.

How Translation Services Help Support Teams with International Customers

Posted by Ofer Tirosh
on September 12, 2019

Accurate translation is often crucial to providing quality customer service and support. With that in mind, and to better describe the need for, and opportunity of, translation services, here’s a list of three ways in which your customer support operations will benefit from them.

How to Provide Great Service on the IT Service Desk

Posted by Ariel Gesto
on September 10, 2019

IT support teams have made great strides in improving their approach to customer service, but there’s still so much more that can be done. To help, this article offers up 10 tips for providing a great service on your organization’s IT service desk.

4 Tips for an IT Service Catalog for High Employee Engagement

Posted by Kristin Savage
on August 28, 2019

This article offers up four tips to assist with the creation of your organization’s IT service catalog, from using the ‘menu’ concept through to writing your service catalog content with your end users in mind. Read the tips here.

Is Your IT Support Team at Breaking Point?

Posted by Steve Morgan
on August 1, 2019

Are your IT service desk teams at breaking point? Over-stretched and ridiculously busy? Where people are working long hours and are probably stressed – with this affecting team morale, the level of human errors, and your CSAT scores. If so, Steve Morgan might have the answer for you in this article.

The Growing Importance of Knowledge to IT Support

Posted by Stephen Mann
on July 29, 2019

We all know the value of knowledge management in helping IT support, but it’s important not to forget two additional use cases for ITSM knowledge and how it can make a big difference to the level of success for both IT self-service and the introduction of AI-enabled IT support capabilities. Here we explain more.

The Pros and Cons of IT Service Desk Benchmarks

Posted by Stephen Mann
on July 16, 2019

Benchmarks can be powerful tools in understanding how well your IT service desk is performing and for the identification of improvement opportunities. With that in mind, this article aims to help you to better understand some of the cons, that sit alongside the pros, of using IT service desk benchmarks.

5 Key Benefits of Self-Service for IT

Posted by Simon Johnson
on July 9, 2019

Notwithstanding the fact that a dollar saved by IT through badly-implemented self-service might incur an extra two dollars of costs from an end-user perspective, cost savings are not the only driver for self-service and, for many, it’s not the most important benefit. Here we look at the other additional benefits.

How to Map the Service Desk User Journey for Better User Experiences

Posted by Nancy Louisnord
on May 16, 2019

Providing a quality customer experience means devising a plan and sticking with it, but doing so requires a little customer journey mapping. Here Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord looks at the key steps for getting started with mapping your customer journeys, from the right questions to ask, to creating user personas.

ITSM Improvement: Tips for IT Self-Service

Posted by Pablo Vergne
on May 9, 2019

Providing employees with self-service access to IT services is commonly seen as a key initiative for overstretched IT service desks – with the aim of reducing costs, speeding up resolutions and provisioning, and delivering a better employee experience. But few are getting it right! This article of tips aims to help.

IT Service Desk Improvement: 3 Tips for Better Customer Service

Posted by Keith Coppersmith
on April 23, 2019

This article offers up three tips for better customer service – with these applicable to IT professionals who are either offering service and support to their business colleagues or the same to customers in other companies, i.e. via external customer support or managed service provision.

5 Ways to Improve Your IT Service Desk

Posted by Stephen Mann
on March 25, 2019

This article looks at 10 common challenges faced by IT service desks (equally applicable in enterprise service management scenarios) and how you can use them to identify and progress a number of opportunities to improve.

5 Steps to Improve Your IT Service Desk FCR

Posted by Saad Mousliki
on February 7, 2019

Maximizing the First Call Resolution (FCR) KPI (if used correctly) can deliver significant benefits to an organization, especially in optimizing the cost per contact, minimizing time to resolve, and improving customer satisfaction. Here we explain how.

4 Ways to Increase Your IT Service Desk’s Customer Satisfaction Scores

Posted by Adam Stetzer
on January 31, 2019

This article shares a number of proven tips that can dramatically improve your customer satisfaction survey scores. They’re all relatively simple and can be easily adopted by your IT service desk to achieve the results you want with your customers. Take a look here.

Improve Customers Experience with Customer Journeys

Posted by Nancy Louisnord
on January 8, 2019

Want to deliver excellent services? Want to start improving customer experience, but have no clue where to start? As with anything related to your customers, it’s often best to start with the customers and their journey(s) – so take a look at these five actions to help you on the road to success.

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