DevOps and the Impact Outside IT: Ask the Experts

Take a look at this interview by Service Automation Framework with SDI’s Chief Value and Innovation Officer, David Wright.  [see original post] Re-published as part of our Industry 4.0 Series exploring the changing world of work, service and technology and the relationship between them.   As a species, we’ve been shaping our environment and crafting ways to help

SDI regularly audits some of the best service desks in the world against the Global Best Practice Service Desk Standard. Service desks are measured against 9 key concepts which include metrics, customer experience and leadership among others. This presentation, the first of its kind, looks at the highest performing service desks in each of these

While understanding of GDPR has improved, the specifics of how it will impact functions such as the service desk are not as clear. The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, and if your organisation is not already well prepared then you need to take urgent action right now.

As many of you may know, SDI is turning 30 this year! Founded in 1988 by Howard Kendall, SDI was formerly known as HUG – the HelpDesk User Group. Shortly after it’s launch, Howard explained “HUG seeks to continually improve the ability of business to deliver good service. We are able to do this in

The Naked Service Desk Series – what did we learn? The concept of the ‘Naked Service Desk’ is a great way to approach service improvement, no matter what level your service is currently operating at. Released in September 2017 the original Naked Service Desk blog (part 1) explored how to strip back the service desk

Industry 4.0 Series by David Wright, Chief Value and Innovation Officer, SDI   Wouldn’t it be incredible if… IT operations could predict the next big infrastructure outage The service desk could predict which end users will have a poor customer experience IT could put steps in place to remediate them before they even happened Well