My experience of turning off email to the service desk, Lena Gaston, Affinity Water

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At a recent SDI event the service desk manager from Affinity Water, Lena Gaston, presented on ‘Service Improvement – From Chaos to Affinity and Beyond’. During her presentation Lena spoke about how, as part of her service improvement plan and with the support of the CIO, they had switched off email as a communication channel to

In this recorded webinar presentation Andrew Shepherd, Service Desk Team Lead at Domestic and General, shows us how their service desk has been turned from a reactive team to a proactive, innovative team. Andrew takes us through his approach to transforming the service desk and describes how the team learnt more about the other teams