HappySignals is an Employee Experience Management Platform for IT that makes experience data visible, understandable, and connected to operational data in IT, enabling enterprises to change their culture to be more open, outcome-focused, and data-driven. We discover the experiences of over 2 million employees in 130 countries. Our customers have been able to make employees happier and increase productivity by 26% on avarage. For more information, visit www.happysignals.com.

Are you tired of guessing where to make IT and business improvements? Do you lack actionable end-user experience data for your IT decisions?

By understanding employee experiences with IT and using data-driven insights, you can improve IT services that truly matter to your employees and align with business goals. Human-centric experience data is the key to leading with confidence and transforming IT decision-making.
 
Join us for a full introduction to human-centric IT experience management to help you better understand that by taking advantage of human-centric data, your organization can:

- Understand how your employees are experiencing IT
- Obtain data to help you make informed and user-centric improvement decisions
- Improve productivity in your organization
- Get ideas about where to start

Our customers have experienced a remarkable 24% increase in happiness (on average) and a 26% improvement in productivity, all thanks to human-centric IT experience management.

Introduction to Human-Centric IT Experience Management

How do you ensure your IT decisions drive the desired outcomes for your business? For top-performing organizations, understanding employee experiences with IT, making data-driven decisions, and improving services in the right areas is crucial.

Join us for an insightful virtual event on September 18 at 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET, where we'll explore how to kick-start and excel in human-centric IT.

Learn from the top industry experts and leaders in ITXM as they discuss:

- Innovative strategies and practices aimed at improving IT end-user experience
- How to streamline employee-facing services in large enterprises

Hear from

- PepsiCo's Prashant Arora on the transformative strategies they have implemented to streamline the services and enhance the end-user experience

- Computacenter's Aimee Burnham how adopting IT Experience Management drives service excellence 

- Industry expert Roug Rabold how Experience Management is revolutionizing IT operations and enhancing workplace dynamics

- HappySignals' co-founders Sami Kallio and Pasi Nikkanen how human-centric IT experience data and insights improve decision-making and drive better business results

Stay tuned until the end of the Summit as we explore the key insights from the 2023 Global IT Benchmark, with a special focus on the top trends in North America!

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ITXM Summit

This webinar discusses human-centric IT experience management and its importance in understanding how employees feel about IT services.

Join our webinar and discover the latest IT experience benchmarks & insights!

The latest edition of our Global IT Experience Benchmark Report is available at happysignals.com/report. The data in this full-year 2023 report is based on 1.86 million end-user responses from 130+ countries.

Within it, we examine happiness and perceived time loss among various industries, company sizes, and service desks (internal vs. outsourced), as well as global variations in IT support profiles.

Key findings in the report:

- Finance & insurance is the industry with the happiest end-users who lose the least time.
- The larger the organization, the more time end-users perceive losing per incident.
- Support Profile distribution varies a lot between geographical regions.
- For the first time, remote work satisfaction surpasses IT service satisfaction, indicating strong end-user appreciation for remote work capabilities and benefits.

The HappySignals IT Experience Benchmark tells the story of internal end-users’ experiences with IT from a human perspective and identifies how people feel about IT across different IT touchpoints. Every response in the data represents a real person relying on IT to do their daily work in large enterprises.

Key Findings: The Global IT Experience Benchmark Report

• Frustrated with how IT is perceived in your organization? 
• Tired of ‘guessing’ where to make IT and business improvements?
• Suffering from the ‘Watermelon Effect’ where SLAs are all green, but the business is still unhappy with IT?
• Confused by all the industry talk of ‘XLAs’?
• Want to improve business productivity and happiness with no idea where to start? 

Join us for a full introduction to human-centric IT experience management and how it will help you to gain happier end users, improve decision-making, and increase productivity. This webinar discusses human-centric IT experience management and its importance in understanding how employees feel about IT services. It highlights the frustration in IT management caused by limited metrics and introduces the concept of the ‘watermelon effect.’

Why to attend? Learn: 

• Why IT needs to focus on the happiness and productivity of end users and how this can lead to better collaboration with business stakeholders. 
• What are the benefits of human-centric IT, including happier end-users and improved decision-making. 
• How to start? Get practical tips for implementing human-centric IT and access valuable resources for ongoing learning.

Key Takeaways
• Human-centric IT experience management focuses on understanding how employees feel about IT services and improving their happiness and productivity.
• The ‘watermelon effect’ refers to the discrepancy between green metrics that show IT is working well and the complaints and frustrations of end users.
• By collecting experience data and sharing it with IT teams, partners, and vendors, organizations can make better decisions and improve the value they deliver to end users.
• Human-centric IT can lead to benefits such as happier end users, improved decision-making, and increased productivity.
• To get started with human-centric IT, organizations need to collect experience data, establish ways of working, and gradually move towards focusing on XLAs and productivity.

If you’re an IT leader or service owner who needs to deliver great IT experiences to end-users in 2023, you must start making informed improvement decisions based on experience data. Instead of relying on the loudest voice or a gut feeling, tap into experience data to understand the current issues and costs of IT services. This enables you to confidently make decisions that will bring long-term business value.

In this session, Sakari Kyrö will explore how Experience Data can be used for optimal IT organization decision-making. Through harnessing this data, our customers have been able to not only identify service desk problems and their root causes but also strategically align improvement investments with what's important most - allowing them to demonstrate the worth of their IT services in terms of business results.

Presentation key takeaways:
1.  Examples of how experience data and insights have unearthed employee issues (with IT support) and improvement opportunities that went unnoticed with traditional IT metrics
2.  Real-world examples of how experience management has improved IT service desk operations and business outcomes in other organisations
3.  How to use ITXM Framework to get started with experience management.

How Does IT Experience Management Drive Better Decision Making?

If you want to get the attention of senior executives in any organization, show them the money. How does money flow through the organization? Where is value added and lost? Those indirect costs are tough to pin down, but they're there - and you can find them.

Traditional IT support metrics have been focused on IT itself, producing what many call inside-out thinking and vision. These days, businesses mistakenly believe that cutting IT spending is good and doing more with less saves money. But we can't improve what we don't measure, right?

Join our webinar "Measurement, Management and Money" with Roy Atkinson, CEO at Clifton Butterfield, on Tuesday 20th June at 8 AM PT |10 AM CT | 11 AM ET | 4 PM BST. 

You will learn:

- The staggering costs of lost productivity we do not see
- How siloed thinking limits our visibility into spending
- How ITXM™can help break down silos and gain better understanding of spending 

Join us online! See you there.

Pasi Nikkanen & Roy Atkinson

Measurement, Management and Money

In this valuable presentation from Sakari Kyrö, ITXM Lead at HappySignals Ltd, you’ll hear what they have learned from 8 million pieces of enterprise IT end-user feedback about their service and support experiences.

Optimising IT Services with IT Experience Benchmarking  Data

Prepare yourself to take the steps necessary to remain competitive in today's experience-centric IT landscape. Join us for our webinar to get an inside look into what strategies are recommended from the latest H2/2022 Global IT Experience Benchmark Report that you can use too.

Key findings: 

- Service Desks have the biggest impact on the overall IT Experience of end-users
- The key benefits of IT Experience Management are happier end-users, focused IT teams, better decisions, and more motivated IT employees
- Fewer sanctions are linked to Service Desk KPIs than two years ago
- More than 30% of companies have or plan to start creating an Experience Management Office (XMO) 
- For the first time, more incident tickets are submitted through service portals than email and phone combined.
 
Don’t miss the chance to hear about and ask questions about the results.

Our biannual report about the state of Enterprise IT Experiences is based on continuous data collection by our enterprise customers through the HappySignals IT Experience Management Platform. In total, 1,642,555 end-user responses in over 130 countries were collected and analyzed in 2022.

Global IT Experience Benchmark - Key Findings H2 2022

We'd love to invite you to our next virtual roundtable on 31st January, where we'll look at the common barriers to IT Experience Management and how to overcome them. Presented in conjunction with a leading global technology research and advisory firm, ISG, this one-hour session will help you understand and overcome the common challenges associated with getting started with IT experience management (ITXM).

Applicable to both internal and external facing support organizations, this roundtable will cover the following:

- Expected outcomes and benefits of experience management for customers and managed service providers (MSPs)
- Typical obstacles people face when introducing experience management, with real-life examples of how to address them
- How to develop and commit to a well-defined end-user experience
- How to manage end-user expectations globally
- How MSPs can be accountable for delivering a positive employee experience within the workplace
- How to get started on your ITXM journey

To quote industry authority Roy Atkinson "If paying attention to end-user experience was valuable before (and we know it was), it's more so now in 2023". Whether your IT department is insourced or outsourced, or if you're a managed service provider, don't delay your ITXM journey any further. Take your first steps in your journey by joining us on 31st January.

Barriers to IT Experience Management and How to Overcome Them

Many of us understand the primary benefits of Experience Management, but what needs to be considered to realise these within your business? Mark will discuss Wiley’s journey and how topics such as leadership buy-in, resourcing and colleague engagement have played vital roles. Key learnings from their journey will also be shared as well as how Experience Management is beginning to positively influence Wiley’s culture and strategy.

How Experience Management Can Influence Your IT Strategy

Employee experience management was considered a much-needed addition for IT organisations in 2022. However, while AXELOS research showed that over 80% of IT organisations understood the need to deliver a better customer experience, as with anything new, it is often difficult for IT organisations to know where to start.

This presentation shares seven key practical experience management and XLA use cases – based on real customer successes – that will help your IT organisation start and succeed with experience management. It’s what your IT organisation needs to turn its CX and XLA ambitions into action.

You'll leave this session with 3 key takeaways:
*Examples of how experience data and insights highlight employee issues (with IT) and improvement opportunities that go unnoticed with traditional IT metrics
*Real-world examples of how experience management has improved operations and outcomes in other organisations
*Insight into the continued evolution of experience management as a critical IT, and broader corporate, improvement capability.

7 Practical Use Case Examples of Experience Management to Turn XLAs a Reality

Are you lacking experience data to drive continual ServiceNow improvements?

Join our live session to learn how you can achieve 25%* response rates to identify more opportunities for Continual Improvement with real-time experience data.

We will show you how to measure and operationalize end-user feedback by combining operational data from ServiceNow with experience data from HappySignals.

Through live demonstration and shared expertise, you'll learn:

- How to interpret experience data to prioritize improvement initiatives
- How to automate continuous collection and processing of experience data
- How to create an instant feedback loop for IT Services

HappySignals IT Experience Management for ServiceNow is:
- Easy to install, 1-3 day integration
- Easy to maintain, support and updates always included
- ServiceNow Certified
- Captures both end-user experience and productivity with IT

Use HappySignals with ServiceNow ITSM to proactively measure, identify and improve end-user experiences, and maximize the value of your ServiceNow investment.

* Data from the Global IT Experience Report

How to get more out of your Now Platform with IT Experience Management?

Reckitt is a consumer goods company that manufactures, markets, and sells health, hygiene, and home products with a global workforce of over 42,000 employees based in more than 60 countries.  They embarked on a mission to transform their IT operations with ServiceNow – with a view to delivering a ‘best in class’ service experience for its employees across all touchpoints globally. 

“In our journey to become "Truly NextGen", we’re laser-focused to ensure industry-leading service experience for our employees across all touchpoints, fueled by modernised & automated IT services.
Inspired by Agile practices – Daily Happiness Reviews, XIP (eXperience Improvement Plans) based on HappySignals’ Dashboards and much more, our service team has taken the journey to the next significant milestone!” – Prashant Arora.

Join our webinar to learn how Reckitt has been able to see a 51% increase in employee happiness with IT services, and an increase in survey responses from just 4% to an impressive 25%. For an organization that registers over 300,000 tickets annually, that's over 250,000 hours of employee lost productivity saved in a year.

In this webinar you learn:
• How Reckitt is successfully using experience level agreements (XLAs) to transform their IT services
•	What kind of cultural changes was involved with the new way of working
•	What has been the impact on end-user experiences and productivity until today
•	Lessons learned

At the stage:
Pasi Nikkanen, CGO and Co-founder of HappySignals
Prashant Arora, Head of Global Service Experience & Automations, Reckitt 
Andrew Murphy, IS Manager - User Technology & Services EMEA, Reckitt

How Reckitt adopted Experience Level Agreements (XLAs)?

Experience Level Agreements (XLAs) are the topic everyone's talking about. But does this mean you should be removing your ‘set in stone’ SLAs and replacing them?

SLAs have been labelled differently by ITSM thought leaders over recent years, bringing the question of whether or not they are serving a purpose to your IT organisation, or whether they are actually producing more harm than good.

Sami, an avid supporter for removing SLAs, discusses with Pasi the importance of using the right metric for measurement - SLAs measure the process, XLAs measure the outcome and value.

Furthermore, in this episode, we hear from Marte Thorbjønsen, the Director of IT Core Operations for Wilhelmsen group, and the decisions to remove SLA measurements from their Chat measurement.

And if you thought that’s all we could get into a 15-minute episode, we also hear from XLA Collab CEO, Alan Nance, discussing HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark report data on the impact of including rewards in your agreements with your Service Desk, instead of SLAs and sanctions.

Traditional SLAs; Should I remove them?

From SLAs to XLAs

There's plenty of discussion about experience level agreements (XLAs) but very little practical guidance for IT service leaders on how to incorporate XLAs into their outsourcing agreements. For years, this topic has sparked ongoing debate and confusion among industry professionals. That's why HappySignals and Bright Horse teamed up to develop recommendations and best practices. Hear about real customer examples and gain practical advice and valuable learnings to transform your outsourcing strategy.

1.  Learn what a contracted XLA looks like 
2.  Understand the contractual governance differences with XLAs and traditional metrics
3.  Learn the options for contracting XLAs alongside the recommended approach 
4.  Learn how best to manage penalties/rewards

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