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How does ITIL 4 contribute to the digital enterprise?
What is a digital enterprise, for that matter, and which digital capabilities are required?
How does the digital operating model contribute to transforming the enterprise?
What’s the importance of planned and emergent continual improvement in keeping up with dynamic digital demand?
How is the role of management changing?
Which resources and practices do ITSM practitioners have at their disposal to co-create value from digital investments?

This talk will explore these questions and more.

HDI conducts comprehensive annual research on almost every aspect of the service desk, from hiring, staffing, and salaries to metrics, frameworks, and technologies. This webinar will explore not only the statistics around the service desk, but what they mean in terms of industry trends and changes. How successful has the “do more with less” approach been? Are service desks hiring, or reducing staff? Is the workload shrinking or growing? What are the top metrics being gathered, and what do they mean?

Attendees will learn:

- What do service desks consider “must-have” technologies for supporting customers/users?
- What contact channels are being used by customers to get support and request services?
- What percentage of organizations are hiring for expansion of the service desk?
- Which frameworks and methodologies are being used?
- What are some areas where improvement is needed?


Roy Atkinson is one of the top influencers in the service and support industry. His blogs, presentations, research reports, white papers, keynotes, and webinars have gained him an international reputation. In his role as senior writer/analyst, he acts as HDI's in-house subject matter expert, bringing his years of experience to the community. He holds a Master’s Certificate in Advanced Management Strategy from Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business.

You can find Roy on Twitter: @RoyAtkinson

Mark O' Loughling of Cloud Credential Council looks at ITSM and Digital Transformation

A look at ITSM and Digital Transformation with Simon Dorst and Michelle Major-Goldsmith.

If we didn’t have IT service management, we’d be in a right mess. But how do you identify and articulate the benefits of ITSM in terms that business people understand?

Starting with familiar ITSM notions such as utility and warranty, this talk explores how these relate to tangible business benefits such as more sales, higher prices, and lower costs and risks. Is ITSM just about keeping the lights on, and is it just as difficult to relate ITSM effort to business benefits as it is to say how much the cleaner’s broom contributed to last month‘s sales? This talk lets you decide for yourself.

ITIL 4 includes seven guiding principles, which can help you to make decisions and deliver great services to your customers. These guiding principles don’t just apply to management, they can help everybody in the organization. Stuart Rance will describe the ITIL 4 guiding principles with practical examples of how you can make them work for you.

Stuart Rance is an IT service management and information security management consultant, working with clients all round the world. He is one of the authors of ITIL 4, as well as an author of ITIL Practitioner, ITIL Service Transition, and Resilia: Cyber Resilience Best Practice. He is also a trainer, teaching standard and custom courses in IT service management and information security management, and an examiner helping to create ITIL and other exams.

Self-Service ITSM portals are the corner stone to reducing overhead costs, promote fast tracks to customers for resolving issues, and reducing ticket volumes. It’s not that simple. Self-Service doesn’t mean cheaper and easier. Join Beverly as she discusses the benefits and drawbacks to Self Service and exploring the concept of A LA Carte options to Self-Service solutions!

One of the most important objectives of IT service management is to deliver valuable services to the business. This can be achieved by breaking down traditional silos and applying standardized processes across the organization. However, demonstrating the effectiveness of service delivery with process measurements can be a challenge.

Join moderator Elisabeth Thomas and global ITSM experts as they discuss best practices for defining critical process measurements that encourage continual service improvement in order to ensure an effective, efficient, and profitable ITSM strategy.

Selecting an ITSM tool to support a providers core framework of practices can be horrendous. Investments in ITSM tools are costly, but are they returning efficiency and quality? Businesses make an investment in tools which most likely aren’t aligning to produce the right results. Join Beverly to learn how to avoid the tool trap and ensure ITSM automation performs well!