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Aiming Higher - Fighting Work Stress & Taking on Bigger Goals

I wouldn’t wish even upon my worst enemy the task of writing a company’s mission statement or brand slogan. Nowadays customers respond most to companies that convey higher-level, altruistic values in their messaging—especially in the world of enterprise tech, or Silicon Valley startups. You can’t write something like “we’re here to make lots of money and dominate the market”—that’s just not going to fly.

I&O Leaders Should Pay Attention to Gartner's 2019 Market Guide For Digital Experience Monitoring

Many Industry and Operations (I&O) Leaders working in end-user computing today can attest to that famous Dylan lyric. In Gartner’s latest Market Guide on Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) they report that “by 2023, 60% of digital business intiatives will require I&O to report on user’s digital experience, up 15% from today”. Compare that to just a decade ago when I&O Leaders rarely had to think about their employees’ digital experiences when making decisions.

Practical Advice For Operationalizing IT Surveys

If you have successfully deployed an ITSM solution like Nexthink, you’ll next want to collect timely employee survey data to provide context for your support team. From our experience we recommend you take the following steps: In most large-scale companies, internal communication is usually already owned by the corporate communications department.

How Our Customers Get 80% Response Rates From Employee Surveys

You can’t really blame most people for thinking employee surveys are a lost cause. Survey fatigue is a real thing, and every organization has its unique red tape when it comes to data collection and HR policy. If you can even manage to convince your employees to respond to that well-crafted questionnaire, how do you separate the signal from the noise and operationalize this information for ITOps?

Good IT Support? Or Just a Pain In The Bits?

Good IT Support is harder to pin down than you’d think but deciding which technology is better than the next is pretty straightforward for most of us. Who wouldn’t pick the latest iPhone or Android device over a flip-phone? Actually, most senior citizens—but to their credit flip-phones never really die, they just regenerate into larger flip-phones. Bad example. Point is we can rate, compare, trial, and study just about every digital technology on the market.

Poor Work Experiences Are a "We" Problem

A few weeks ago I attended the Digital Workplace & Employee Experience Summit in Berlin hosted by Platinum Edge. I’ve been to hundreds of conferences in my professional career but none like this one. Surprisingly, the attendees and speakers weren’t just IT engineers like myself, but instead a mix and mash of human resources, change management, content marketing, and digital analytics professionals—all with skin in the proverbial workplace experience game.