Modernizing the Service Desk
1h 40mIntermediate2024-02-05
Authors

David Pultorak
Veteran IT Management Consultant and Founder of Pultorak & Associates
Course details
There are many drivers for service desk modernization, such as new focus on the customer experience, new tools and channels, and the need for agile services better matched to today’s digital enterprises. Service desk transformations are complex, though, and require excellent preparation and execution. In this course, veteran IT management consultant David Pultorak gives you a high-level look at how to prepare for and successfully execute a service desk modernization project. David helps you understand what a modern service desk looks like, including agile services (and service levels and periods), channels and processes, metrics, dashboards and reporting, and ticket-driven agile improvement. He covers why it is crucial to transform your service desk to a modern one and gives you ideas on how to do so. David goes over Agile ways of working and also discusses user experience management tools like Nexthink, Aternity, HappySignals, and CallMiner.
Skills covered
IT Service ManagementNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Modernizing the service desk
- 02 - Why modernize the service desk
- 03 - What you should know
1. Modern Service Desk Characteristics
- 04 - The modern service desk
- 05 - Services
- 06 - Channels
- 07 - People
- 08 - Processes
- 09 - Tools
2. Modern Service Desk Transformation
- 10 - Transform to a modern service desk
- 11 - Implement agile services, levels, and periods
- 12 - Move to experience-based metrics and management
- 13 - Balanced metrics and employ visible management
- 14 - Initiate virtuous continual agile improvement cycles
- 15 - Implement a virtuous shift-left motion
- 16 - Create a continuum of good experience
3. Agile Service Desk Improvements
- 17 - Increase speed of service
- 18 - Make who to contact clear
- 19 - Root out attitude problems
- 20 - Get to the right definition of done
- 21 - Reduce the drain TX issues like battery life
- 22 - Reduce the number of handoffs
- 23 - Do what the cool kids do
Conclusion
- 24 - Trends in service desk modernization
- 25 - Next steps