I Can Hear You Smiling: Emotionally Aware Support for Emotionally Exhausting Times
In January, we had high hopes that 2020 would be the "year of seeing clearly." If you ask me, the present sent...
A Tale of Agile Transformation at the Service Desk
Once upon a time, there was an IT organization adapting to changing market conditions, ways of working (and ways of livi...
Metric of the Month: Same Day/Next Day Resolution
Each month, I highlight one Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for service and support. I define the KPI, provide recent be...
Are You an "IT Flat Earther?"
Having led several global IT teams, I've flown around the world visiting offices from Trondheim to Tokyo, and friend...
7 Steps to Make Root Cause Analysis Meaningful
We've all been there. A major incident happens. Email goes down or a major server crashes or any number of other fir...
Emerging Lessons for Executives from the Pandemic
Things that were thought impossible a few months agolike having nearly 100% of employees working from homehave been made p...
What's in Participation? Advice for Service and Support Leaders
Recently I attended an HDI leadership summit and was asked to give a presentation on participation. Because this was a l...
Simple Tips to Manage End-User Feedback
Everyone who provides service and support strives to give the best experience possible. To ensure that we are hitting th...
Methods of Change Management: Making It Work in Your Organization
Let's start out by putting change management into perspective. While there's much to learn from the "Unicor...
Denial of Service Management: Risk, Response, and the 3 Cs
On Monday, June 15, 2020, the US came under attack. A massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack supposedly kno...

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