Avoiding Burnout: reducing stress and increasing job satisfaction

by Sumit De, Head of Consultancy, TOPdesk   We’re in the age of Employee Experience. It’s been a gradual transition, but employees now expect much more from their employers than they did in the past – not least when it comes to services. How can Service Management meet the demands of the modern employee?   Employee Experience

by Sunil Mohal, SAS Management Inc       When an organization operates a centralized point of engagement with its customers, we typically refer to that point as a Service Desk, a Call Centre or a Contact Centre. Quite often these terms are casually interchanged. From a Service Management perspective, the Service Desk “is the primary

Written by Chad Stigant, Solutions Architect at UKN Group   Migrating business services to the cloud can save you a lot of money, time and headaches down the road. IT professionals and software vendors have been talking about the benefits of cloud migration for a couple of decades, with more businesses than ever taking the

One of the most commonly asked questions from service desk managers is “What should I be reporting on?” Senior management and even customers aren’t always clear about what they need to know or focus on a very narrow set of KPIs, for example, performance within SLA doesn’t necessarily mean you have happy customers. Quite often

Mark Temple, IT Service Project Manager A bit about me I’ve worked at the University of Glasgow for the past 27 years, the first 12 of these as a Motor Mechanic, so like many people, I had a real job before I got into IT Service Management…  just kidding. My current role is varied to

by Scarlett Bayes, Industry Analyst, SDI   My previous blog theorised the ways in which DevOps thinking can impact the service desk, but this got me thinking about how IT departments following a DevOps approach will communicate with other teams and business factions. For this, I wanted to ask some DevOps experts who have experienced