People are an organisation’s greatest asset. They are also the key to an organisation’s productivity, profitability and reputation. If the well-being of employees is neglected, the whole business is adversely affected. Fortunately, business owners and leaders are beginning to take employee well-being very seriously, particularly in the high-pressure world of ITSM.

It is no secret that the failure rate of IT projects is the biggest worry for project managers. Add to this the impact of the current pandemic. A cursory Google search will present you with reports from Gartner, Statista and many others detailing how the spending in Global IT is projected to go down in 2020 (We still don’t have complete figures for all the financial quarters in 2020) compared to 2019. This is despite the availability of vaccines and the growing number of vaccinated population.

Is your company losing out to your competition because your workforce is unable to be productive? Do your employees lack the right tools and IT support that they need to do their jobs?Is your IT team struggling to meet the pouring demands of your employee IT issues? Are your employees feeling frustrated waiting for their IT issues to be resolved?

IT teams across the digital world are currently facing their biggest test yet. Ensuring that things are running smoothly when employees are working from home. And they’re doing a very good job at it. But, there’s always room for improvement right? If you’ve ever been a part of an IT team, you know the pain of jumping between multiple software tools, the effects of a broken down collaboration system and the struggle for visibility amongst team members.

Remote team management has always been different for team managers and leaders. Not just challenging, but different. Not having the luxury to rub shoulders often and not having the liberty to have the entire team under one roof has compelled leaders to acquire new and innovative approaches to remote leadership. And while leadership styles and management approaches are ever-evolving, there are some core principles of effective remote team management that team leaders can stick to.

Ivanti’s recent acquisition of Cherwell surprised the ITSM industry, and stirred up more questions rather than answers. These two legacy giants have competing ITSM platforms with overlapping offerings. How will the two converge? Which roadmap will they follow? What will happen to the customer experience? Uncertainty in the future of your IT investment brings about doubt and anxiety.

An IT project can introduce a variety of challenges during implementation. The IT team handling the project should constantly improvise and embrace mid-project adjustments to make sure everything is in place. This is especially true when dealing with a company-wide change that might come with varying levels of complexity, risk, and impact. Project management in ITSM ensures seamless implementation of complex IT projects within the stipulated deadline.

Business priorities are shifting. Employees’ expectations are rising. Simply put, the world around us is changing. And so should your service desk. AI is everywhere, and now it is redefining ITSM to provide end-users with a superior experience. Why wouldn’t they, right?

In an organization, purchases in IT happen in huge numbers. It is one of the key responsibilities of the IT team to keep track and manage these purchases to optimize spending. But manually tracking these purchases and updating stock using spreadsheets is tedious. It causes blocks in the purchase order process and can lead to discrepancies and human errors. The problem is the lack of an efficient tool to manage purchases.

Employees in an organization expect instant support and turnaround to their issues when they contact the internal helpdesk. To facilitate this, companies invest a significant amount of time and money to build and implement self-service portals. But this makes little or no impact on the self-service adoption numbers. This is because self-service portals are still external to employees. It’s difficult for employees to remember the tool or the access URL to reach out for help.