Category: IT Service Management

  • Customer Advocacy and Incident Management

    Customer Advocacy and Incident Management

    The IT organization exists to efficiently provision and support technology to meet business objectives. Technology enables companies to perform their core business processes. When the technology fails, the Service Desk is the first point of contact for the customer into the IT organization and it serves as the customer advocate throughout the Incident Management process. […]

  • Key Measurements for the IT Service Desk

    Key Measurements for the IT Service Desk

    The IT service desk is a strategic asset to the IT service provider that fulfills a pivotal role in managing the relationship between the customer and IT. The IT service desk provides support for business processes that use IT services and manages a variety of transactional requests, incidents, and queries. The performance of the IT […]

  • Incident Categorization: A Method to the Madness

    Incident Categorization: A Method to the Madness

    Incident categorization is a challenge for organizations. Whether it is due to culture, politics, complexity, or an inability to agree – every organization at some point finds that the categorization of incidents is difficult. Why does it cause so much of a challenge? Every organization is different. The products and services are different. The service […]

  • IT Frameworks, Standards and Models

    IT Frameworks, Standards and Models

    Frameworks like the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) are not new. Frameworks existed before there was technology. Why is it that so many organizations have now begun to evaluate and adopt a framework in Information Technology? Why Use IT Frameworks? The basic answer is structure. Organizations need to adopt a structured environment to achieve operational […]