Ramp Up – Deliver ESM Not ITSM

Enterprise Service Management – ESM – is well and truly here!

Employees and customers want a frictionless online experience where they can easily request and consume services regardless of what business unit delivers that service. Traditionally, IT departments provided self-service portals or catalogs that offered services provided by IT. Nowadays, organisations are expanding what’s available to include the services offered by Human resources, Facilities, Legal and other service providers.

Not only does ESM aim to provide a great customer and employee experience across all functions, it drives efficiencies through standardization, automation, improved collaboration and increased ROI on existing technology.

With the ITSM lifecycle containing all the necessary components required for a successful ESM program, IT departments are perfectly positioned to guide the organization towards ESM adoption and improvement. In addition, many ITSM tools lend themselves to supporting non-IT services. If you’ve not already adopted an ESM approach, what is stopping you? It’s easier than you think.

This webinar covers:

· Moving from ITSM to ESM

· What world-class self-service looks like

· What challenges to prepare for

· How to get started

Speaker:

Eileen O’Mahony, General Manager, WM Promus

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Digitally Transforming First Line Support

In a world of digital transformation, learn how to improve efficiencies and reduce costs with automation

In the ‘new normal’ digital transformation is a ‘must’ for all organizations. Yet with it comes increase pressure on Service Desk Managers to balance the budget, upskill the team and improve efficiencies… now more than ever, putting automation at the heart of your service management solution is a must.

 Watch this webinar to learn how the use of AI and machine learning can drive the automation of tasks, processes, workflows, and change deployments across the service desk, and how this is essential for simplifying the end user experience and enabling more cost effective and efficient service management. International Service Management lead, Nev Ward from Micro Focus will be discussing:

 What is automation in the context of service management

  • Best practise approach and where to start
  • Automating smartly – leveraging AI and machine learning
  • Value to the business
  • Use cases for quick return on investment
  • The technologies and tools available to help you achieve this.

Neville will be introducing Automation Experts, Darragh Allen and Jeremy Brown to look at how automation can deliver Enterprise Service Manager (ESM) to the wider organisation.

Speakers:

Neville Ward, International Service Management Lead, Micro Focus
Jeremy Brown, Senior Account Strategist, Micro Focus
Darragh Allen, Sales Engineer, Micro Focus

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Virtual Event: Service Transformation, December 2020

In this event we focused on IT and service transformation, how to get it right and how to engage your stakeholders. Our speakers shared their best practice for successful IT transformations.
Watch the live sessions here!

Capgemini's Global Service Desk Transformation

5 Steps To Saving Your IT Transformation

Siddharth Chaturvedi, Senior Director, Capgemini          Jonathan Graham, Founder, Lawford Knight

Scale Up And Speed Up IT Support

Next Gen Tech & How To Prepare For It

 Jonathan Whan, W20 Group & Freshworks                       Scarlett Bayes, SDI                    

Follow The Sun In-sourcing, Essentra’s in-sourcing journey

Transforming Service Management for Generation Y

Poonam Chauhan, Essentra                                            Neville Ward, Senior ESM Engineer, Micro Focus

Shape Your Future With 'Next Gen' Transformation

Value Flows Where Empathy Shows

.Farah Remtulla, Managing Director,  KPMG                 Simone Jo Moore, Industry Thought Leader

                                                                                              on behalf of PeopleCert and Axelos

Our next event:


SDI Coffee Break Series: Path Out Of Covid-19

The Path Out of COVID-19

Creating the Blueprint for Digital Service Transformation

As the economy struggles to return to work en-masse, the innovators are already re-thinking their business models, operations, and their customer and employee engagement for the post-COVID era.

IT is at a time unlike any other in history and must find new ways to innovate, disrupt and use technology to deliver services more effectively, while extracting every ounce of efficiency from existing resources. The previous pedestrian rate of change no longer cuts it.

In a series of lively debates Hornbill and SDI discuss the key challenges the organisations must embrace to thrive in their path out of COVID.

Join Hornbill Chief Evangelist, Patrick Bolger for a series of seven on demand vlogs with SDI’s Chief Value Officer, David Wright, as they debate the key stages organizations must undertake to adapt and a compelling on demand podcast with SDI Chairman Paul Rodrigues and Hornbill CEO Gerry Sweeney as they discuss the imperative for true transformation and industry innovation.

Business Leader Podcast: The imperative for transformation and innovation as work returns

Episode 1: The impact of COVID on the ITSM market and what to expect going forward

Episode 2: The pandemic response - what could have been done differently?

Episode 3: Stabilization and how successful organizations are adapting

Episode 4: Remote working, collaboration and the new challenges for IT

Episode 5: Digital solutions fit for the new normal - self-service and ESM

Episode 6: Escaping the firefighting loop with shift-left, automation and integration


Webinar: Building An ITSM Business Case For The New Normal

According to Gartner, 65% of organisations say over 60% of their workforce is now working remotely. This dramatic shift has highlighted the challenge of remote user support.

Many organisations have scrambled to deploy a patchwork of solutions—often bolted onto a legacy ITSM platform—to satisfy demand for omnichannel interaction. As a result, they have a fragmented toolset which can’t give them a unified view of the IT customer.

In the “new normal” you need a unified ITSM platform that covers all digital channels. The challenge is to build a business case for a modern ITSM solution when the CFO is skeptical about spending.

In this webinar SDI’s Senior Research Analyst Scarlett Bayes and guest speaker Matt Fuchs from Axios Systems share expert advice on how you can build a winning business case for investment in the ITSM technology you need to provide the support your IT customers expect.

Watch the video recording of this webinar to discover:
   *Why you need a watertight business case
   *What to focus on
   *Step-by-step guide on building the business case

 


See Axios Systems in action

Book a free place at our Virtual ITSM Demo Day on 4 August to see Axios and seven other software suppliers present live demonstrations of the latest service desk tools, plus a chance to have your questions answered by the speakers.

 


 

About Scarlett Bayes

 

Your webinar host and co-presenter is SDI’s Scarlett Bayes. Scarlett is dedicated to providing insightful and practical research to the service desk industry through investigating trends, analysing data and engaging with the IT service community. You can find more of Scarlett’s work on the SDI blog and can follow her on Twitter @SDIScarlett.

 

 

About Matt Fuchs

Matt is a Business Development Manager for Axios Systems and is responsible for new business sales in the North American region. As a seasoned sales professional, Matt works in the large enterprise space helping I/O executives plan and execute transformational IT Service & Operations Management projects. Matt has nearly twenty years of corporate account management and enterprise sales experience with six years specifically in the SaaS ITSM/ESM space, all of which contributes to his success, the success of Axios Systems and, most importantly, the success of our customers.

 

 

 

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Webinar: Enterprise Service Management

Took place on the 4th May 2020, 3.30pm BST

What does is really mean to introduce a common Service Management model across a business? Does HR need to know ITIL? Does FM need to be Lean?

While ITSM teams have been effectively automating and streamlining service delivery for years, the use of Service Management tools beyond the traditional IT department is becoming increasingly common. But what’s the reality of ESM and what’s the best practice?

Sign up for this webinar and you’ll:

*learn how the definitions and expectations of Enterprise Service Management are changing

*understand what organisations must prepare for today in order to improve productivity across the entire organisation tomorrow

*hear the real world ESM experiences from the University of Glasgow

Find out more about the University of Glasgow’s ESM vision, their progress in creating an engaging unified service experience which operates across many parts of the University beyond IT, serving all their students, staff and alumni.

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Speakers: 

Ian Aitchison, Ivanti

Ian Aitchison leads Ivanti’s Service Management product strategy. He works frequently with industry leaders and decision makers to help them introduce strategic Unified IT transformations and gain the benefits of technology innovation. Ian also contributes to the wider ITSM community, speaking worldwide on subjects around innovation, the future of IT, Artificial Intelligence, Service and Asset Management. He has presented at many industry events worldwide including Gartner Symposium, Pink Conference, SDI, SITS, ITSMf, Brighttalk, HDI, SMD, Ivanti Interchange and other Ivanti events.

A father of two, when not working or parenting, Ian sails and plays the ukulele badly, although never both at the same time. He also tweets frequently, blogs very occasionally, and is – in his own words – ‘mildly amusing at times’

Twitter : @ianaitchison

Ian’s dynamic presentations are always lively, thought provoking, and entertaining.

 

Mark Temple, University of Glasgow

He has worked for the University of Glasgow for 29 years, the first 12 of these as a Motor Mechanic, moving into IT almost by accident after completing a part-time degree.
His roles have included desktop support, managing Service Desks, Training and ITSM Platforms; many of these at the same time…

The last few years have been focused on Enterprise Service Management and bringing the University’s services together on one unified ESM platform, giving our students and staff one place to access knowledge, request services or report issues.

 

 


A View From The Frontline

Thought Leadership and Industry Analysis – “A View From The Frontline”

 

In this unique SDI industry insight report, you will find results and benchmarks from hundreds of service desks across the globe. SDI is in the privileged position of being a community hub for IT service professionals and this enabled us to survey the global community and take a snapshot of the industry.

This report looks at what service desks benefit from – and struggle with – in terms of their ITSM tools, their vendors, and their innovation and transformation.

The data trends from this series of reports – it also ran in 2015 and 2017 – highlights that Digital Transformation is at the forefront of the minds of many organisations. With access to innovative technologies now at the fingertips of many service desk professionals, the research shows that the industry has undoubtedly developed exponentially over the last few years.

The key findings of this report show that service desk focus points are centred around technologies like self-service, automation, AI, chatbots, and so on. Other topics like Enterprise Service Management (ESM), methodologies and frameworks, and reporting functionalities also proving to be pertinent for service desk professionals in 2019.

Focus on automation, self-service and chatbots

75% of service desks indicate that automation is at the top of their priority list over the next 12 months

47% are still keen to success with self-service/service catalogue

43% of service desks are looking to see improvements and innovations in the automation capabilities of their ITSM tool over the next year

41% would like to see self-service and chatbot innovation

Download the report for free here >>

 

Reserve a seat at our next tool demo day focusing on the latest automation capabilities in ten of the industry’s most popular ITSM tools: