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IT Support Outsourcing is at an inflection point, and there are no shortage of stumbling blocks to navigate. How do we clear these hurdles and journey towards successful IT Support Outsourcing relationships? It’s time to dissect and address the issues that can make or break the outsourcing experience. 

Leveraging over three decades of experience, Jeff Rumburg, Managing Partner of MetricNet, will dive into real-world case studies, analyzing these obstacles and providing practical solutions to overcome them. 

In this enlightening webcast, you’ll get to:

• Review the 11 major failure modes in IT outsourcing relationships and their impact on performance. 
• Unearth effective strategies to dodge these pitfalls and ensure a mutually beneficial outsourcing contract. 
• Learn how to establish a non-zero-sum perspective in an IT outsourcing contract, fostering a mindset of shared success. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to go beyond the surface-level challenges and dig into the root causes.

IT Support Outsourcing in 2026: Rising Above the Typical Challenges

Managed Service Providers face mounting pressure to adapt to rapid shifts in technology, increasing cyber threats and tightening demands around regulation and compliance. Making all of this more complex is the increasing role of artificial intelligence and living up to customer expectations in an “I want it now” world.

We’ll ask a panel of top MSPs which trends – including the role of AI in automation, constant cyber threats and the challenges posed by tool sprawl – they’re focused on as 2026 approaches.

Expect to hear how:

· AI can deliver ROI and make your MSP business more efficient.
· To tailor cybersecurity offerings for customers in an increasingly hostile environment.
· To scale your business by focusing on high-margin services, building strategic partnerships and automating operations.

How Top North American MSPs Are Navigating the Shifting Tech and Business Landscape

AI is both a technology that MSPs have to deliver and support for their customers as well as holding the potential to transform their own operations. There is a need to deliver AI solutions that are secure, meet compliance regulations and produce the anticipated productivity gains. 

Given those demands, how are MSPs reacting to AI and what potential does it have to positively transform the life of a managed service provider and their customers?

The MSP AI Journey: How AI is Impacting the World of MSPs

Is your IT support team struggling to meet performance goals? Without benchmarking, it’s impossible to know how you stack up against industry peers or where to focus improvement efforts. 

In this webcast, Jeff Rumburg, Managing Partner of MetricNet, will demonstrate how to use benchmarking to identify performance gaps, set realistic goals, and implement actionable strategies for improvement. Attendees will learn how to leverage benchmarking data to achieve world-class IT support performance.

Benchmarking Your Way to World-Class IT Service and Support

The hype about AI is everywhere, and organizations are rushing to buy and use AI-powered tools and technologies. But where can the powers of AI and automation do the most good and provide tangible improvements? Is AI going to wind up being just another “shiny new thing” that fails to live up to the marketing promises, or will it make substantial improvements in the working lives of IT service consumers? 

One surefire way to make sure you are getting results that make a real difference is to know where speed and ease matter most. (Hint: Not everything has to be fast to be better.) Gathering and analyzing experience data from your service consumers and acting on what they tell you—in other words, being data-driven—takes the guesswork out of bringing new technologies into your toolkit. 

Key takeaways: 
- Why experience goes far beyond the legacy satisfaction data. 
- The consequences of inside-out thinking and how experience data helps avoid it.
- Making your investment in AI-powered tools produce the best results and better ROI. 
 
About the speaker
Roy Atkinson serves as CEO and Principal Advisor for award-winning advisory firm Clifton Butterfield, LLC, and is a Top 10 Thought Leader in both IT Strategy and IT Operations, according to Thinkers360. He is a certified Experience Champion and certified ITXM Professional. He has written and spoken extensively on the topic of AI in ITSM.

The Future of ITSM: Using Experience Data to Dial-In AI and Automation

Digital disruption and cybersecurity threats are fundamentally changing how businesses deliver IT services. Organizations must simultaneously protect their infrastructure, speed up innovation, and meet rising customer expectations - creating a complex balancing act for IT leaders who need to demonstrate clear business value while maintaining operational excellence.

The integration of ITIL4 and Agile methodologies provides a robust foundation for modern service delivery. This unified approach breaks down traditional barriers between development and operations, enabling teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining service quality. By combining ITIL4's structured governance with Agile's adaptive planning, organizations can create resilient IT services that evolve with business needs while keeping risks in check.

In this session, Maria Sansom (Digital Delivery Manager) delves into key concepts, such as continuous improvement and adaptive planning and explores how combining ITIL4 and Agile can drive efficiency, boost innovation and supercharge value creation. 

Key takeaways:
- Understand Synergies: Learn how ITIL4 and Agile practices complement each other to enhance digital delivery.
- Implementation Insights: Gain practical strategies for integrating ITIL4 and Agile in your organization.
- Overcome Challenges: Discover common challenges and effective solutions for implementing these methodologies.
- Measure Success: Learn how to measure the success of ITIL4 and Agile practices in driving operational excellence.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Understand the importance of customer-centricity in optimizing digital delivery.


About the Speaker
With a decade of experience in the telecommunications industry, Maria Sansom is an ITIL4 Master and Prince2 Agile certified professional. They bring five years of expertise in Service Management, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.

Next-Gen Service Delivery: The ITIL4 and Agile Formula

To drive efficiency with ITSM, companies should understand the components needed to manage their current and future digital technology estate. While this may sound simple, there are significant pressures on digital technology platforms on top of governance requirements and time allotted for incident resolution. As they say, “the devil is in the detail.” 

Companies must consider the complexity within their service management system as well as their incident response and resolution plans when considering ITSM goals. 

This webinar will challenge your understanding of good ITSM practices and focus on the key concerns to driving efficiency with ITSM, by asking companies: 
1) What are the efficiency challenges your organization should focus on? 
2) Why should you prioritize the drivers for efficiency? 
3) How can operational resilience compliance assist you in meeting the key challenges?  

Tune into this session presented by operational resilience expert Steve Yates, as he explores ITSM challenges and covers the importance of this function and its criticality within compliance. 

By the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Form an understanding of the challenges facing efficiency for ITSM.
- Consider the challenges within ITSM you should consider for prioritizing efficiency.
- Be aware of why operational resilience should be a key operational requirement.

Why is ITSM so Critical for Operational Resilience?

What does it take to build a service desk that consistently delivers exceptional performance? 

In this webcast, industry thought leader Jeff Rumburg will share insights from MetricNet’s database of top-performing service desks. He’ll discuss the key drivers of success, including workforce management, technology investments, and leadership practices. Attendees will learn actionable strategies to elevate their service desk performance and benchmark against the best in the industry.

How to Build a High-Performance Service Desk: Lessons from the Best

How can IT organizations provide great employee and customer experiences using ITSM principles? By ensuring they provide a solid and reliable system and application environment. ITSM promises to get you there, but many organizations stop after some basic practices because it gets too hard or labor intensive.

Using AI and automation both within ITSM management suites and to integrate other tools in the environment makes it a lot easier to succeed by being able to leverage the reams of data available from monitoring, security and other tools. However, you still need a business-oriented plan and an ITSM operating model that gets you there. 

This session from Influencer Phyllis Drucker will demonstrate how to use AI or automation to deliver the ITSM foundational items needs and a solid operating model that sustains a human-focused operational approach.

Kicking ITSM Up a Notch With AI And Automation

Service delivery is at a breaking point. Every day, headlines scream about another major outage or security breach, while stakeholder demands and system complexities skyrocket. IT leaders are at a crossroads: how can they navigate these challenges and come out on top?

Join Jeffrey Tefertiller - Founder of Service Management Leadership for this session to dive into the game-changing potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and intelligent automation. Discover how these technologies can be seamlessly integrated into your existing systems to exceed stakeholder expectations and explore practical strategies for incorporating these powerful enablers, focusing on the right timing and methods to maximize impact. 

Key Takeaways:
- Grasp the current landscape of service delivery challenges.
- Gain actionable strategies for integrating AI and intelligent automation.
- Understand the benefits of these technologies in enhancing stakeholder value.
- Learn the optimal timing and methods for successful implementation.

The C-Suite Blueprint: Solving Service Delivery Challenges with AI and Intelligent Automation

Are you prepared for the future of IT support? Emerging technologies and shifting customer expectations are reshaping the industry. 

In this webcast, industry thought leader Jeff Rumburg will explore the trends and predictions that will define IT support in 2025. He’ll discuss AI, automation, remote support, and other innovations that are transforming the landscape. Attendees will learn how to stay ahead of the curve and position their organizations for success in the years to come.

The Future of IT Support: Trends and Predictions for 2025

Is the Service Portal dead? If you think it is, this session is for you!

We’ll look at the impact of AI and other emerging technologies on human-centered support design, focusing on the service portal. This session covers the foundational elements of building a human-centered service experience and how emerging trends will impact that design.

Key topics and takeaways include:
- Designing the service portal as a contact channel in an omnichannel support design.
- Information and application center.
- Entry for walk-up services.
- True self-service (vs. just logging a ticket).
- Replacement for the corporate intranet.
- A dive into the ways generative AI changes knowledge management and the service portal.
- A look at the self-service experience of the future: Will it happen in the portal? What replaces the portal if it doesn’t?

As participants will learn, until tools mature beyond the service portal, it will always need to be built. Learn how to build it from an expert in the field who focuses on the human experience, designing portals customers love!

About the Speaker
Phyllis Drucker, the 2023 HDI Lifetime Achievement Award winner, is a service management and leadership expert with over 20 years of experience in Business/IT Strategy, enterprise service management, governance, customer service, and support. She is an expert in Service Management tool design, including the service portal and service request catalog, HR automation, leadership, and team building. Her specialty is looking at innovative approaches to how people work that use today’s digital solutions: taking advantage of technological advances to transform how service and support are delivered.

The Service Portal Reimagined: AI, Human Design, and Beyond

Individual processes and practices are easy. There I said it. 

Standing alone, Incident Management, Change Enablement, Problem Management et al can improve quickly. After an initial spurt of improvement, pretty soon you are living with marginal gains but still missing real opportunities. 

The interfaces between the processes and their associated the value chains are the real future of service management. 

This presentation will show you how to manage key interfaces and the opportunities that presents to your stakeholders.

Service Integration and Management – The Key to Enterprise Transformation

The evolution of IT service management (ITSM) stands at a crucial juncture, shaped profoundly by the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), network operations (NetOps), and security operations (SecOps). 

This presentation delves into the transformative impacts of these technologies on ITSM, forecasting a future where ITSM not only adapts but thrives in the complexity of modern digital ecosystems.

The Once and Future ITSM

Explore the transformative role of AI metrics in IT service and support with AI-Driven Success: Metrics That Matter. Jeff Rumburg delves into the critical AI metrics that are reshaping the landscape of IT service management. This session provides a comprehensive look at how these metrics not only enhance operational efficiency but also drive success in the era of AI.

Key Takeaways:
- Deep dive into essential AI metrics for IT service success.
- Strategies for implementing and interpreting AI metrics effectively.
- Insights from real-world case studies of AI-driven service improvements.
- Future trends in AI metrics and staying ahead in the IT industry.

This presentation is tailored for IT professionals aiming to harness AI for superior service delivery and operational excellence.

AI-Driven Success: Metrics That Matter

Most organizations are busy improving or transforming their IT operating model by introducing new ways of working (e.g. DevOps, ITIL 4, Lean Portfolio Management) and modernizing their IT management tool chain (e.g. DevOps tool chain, ITSM platforms, AIOps / Observability tools, CICD pipeline, etc.). 

But despite all our efforts we are still not in control! We lack transparency and traceability across our value streams, the CMDB is not up-to-date, we don't what applications we have, or what cloud resources are used. We have siloed teams and fragmented processes. We have no control on value, risk and costs. 

This is all due to fact that we miss the most important ingredient as part of our ITSM approach: DATA 

Data is the fuel for your IT service management processes. Without a solid data foundation (and common data model) your IT organization will run slow at pace, inability to take the right decisions, frictions, inability to automate IT processes, longer lead time for resolving incidents, and so on. 

ITSM data is for example about service / application portfolio, service catalogue, enterprise architecture and the CMDB, but also about all activities e.g. epics, features, changes, incidents, service requests, vulnerabilities as well as contracts, licenses, and so. 

This presentation will explain how a DATA DRIVEN approach to ITSM can deliver better value, safer and sooner, while optimizing user experience. By taking a data driven approach the system can be fixed and revolutionize the way the IT operates.

About the Speaker
Rob Akershoek is senior IT Management / DevOps architect at DXC and Co-Chair of the IT4IT Forum within The Open Group. He helps IT organizations to transform to become a lean and agile service provider, ready to manage the new digital ecosystem consisting of a hybrid cloud and multi-vendor sourcing landscape.

Data Driven ITSM- A New Approach to Manage Digital

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, organizations are embracing AI to drive innovation and stay competitive. Pure Storage empowers enterprises to achieve this transformation by offering cutting-edge AI storage solutions that deliver superior performance, reliability, and efficiency.  By accelerating AI model training and delivering real-time insights, Pure helps businesses unlock the full potential of their data while optimizing operational costs and energy use. With a proven track record of zero downtime and flexible scaling, Pure Storage provides the ideal foundation for future-proofing AI workloads.

o             Maximize Performance and Efficiency

o             Simplify AI Storage Management

o             Solve the Unpredictability of AI Growth

Transforming Enterprise IT with Future-proof AI Storage

In the current landscape, businesses face numerous challenges, including the proliferation of digital environments, applications, services, and data. These factors contribute to increased complexity and operational costs. 

Traditional IT operations, characterized by manual processes and siloed systems, are now struggling to keep up with modern business demands. This has led to inefficiencies, slow response times, and inconsistent performance. This talk will explore the evolution of IT operations over the past few decades, highlighting the shift from simpler, less interconnected systems to the complex digital environments we see today. 

 Join KFC's Manager of Business Intelligence Farid Sheikhi as he delves into these challenges and discusses their impact on business performance and agility, emphasizing the need for modern approaches to IT operations.

Transforming Legacy IT Operations for Modern Business

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize their technology environments. This presentation explores the critical role of explainable AI (XAI) in the strategic deployment of AIOps solutions. While AIOps leverages machine learning to automate and enhance IT operations, the complexity of these models often creates a barrier to understanding and trust for decision-makers. Explainable AI bridges this gap by providing transparency into how AIOps systems make predictions and decisions.

This session will demystify key AIOps processes, highlighting the importance of XAI for stakeholders who require insights into model outputs to ensure reliability, accountability, and ethical governance. Through real-world use cases, we will examine how XAI fosters informed decision-making, risk management, and better collaboration between technical teams and business leaders. Additionally, we will discuss the strategic advantages of adopting XAI, including increased trust, regulatory compliance, and improved operational outcomes.

Demystifying AIOps: The Role of Explainable AI in Strategic Implementation

Imagine a world where your customers are your biggest fans, and your employees rave about their IT Operations Department. It's not a dream, it's within your reach!

We think our customers want 100% availability of business-critical services, but they expect all their devices and services to work seamlessly.
We don’t give it to them because it takes all our resources to support infrastructure and services. This leaves them suffering with reactive support, waiting for devices to fail and then logging an incident to get support…waiting…waiting…waiting.

AI as a strategy removes the resource constraint. AI enables us to shift our focus by using automation to manage, prevent, and correct technical issues. From cyber attacks to daily maintenance, tools using AI enable even small operations departments to do it all, transforming the employee and customer experience.

This webinar will offer ideas, tips, and tricks for using AI to transform the support experience, including the tools available and the effort required to use them. The good news is that many of the tools are already in your enterprise but not used to their fullest capabilities.

"AI" Spells Operational Excellence

Join us for an insightful session on how the rapid growth and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping data centre design and operations. 
With AI driving the need for redefined data centre architectures, particularly in mechanical design and cooling with a focus on liquid cooling, data centre operators are presented with both challenges and opportunities to reimagine infrastructure. This session will explore the relevant attributes, the challenges, and opportunities linked to this densification, alongside sustainable design strategies to minimize the carbon footprint associated with this paradigm shift.

Don't miss the chance to be part of this conversation and get all your burning questions answered.

Next Data Centre challenges and opportunities: the cooling architecture in the era of AI disruption

Business in 2024 demands a significant shift in the ITSM landscape, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in transforming workplaces. With the emergence of generative AI, enhancing employee experiences has become more critical than ever. As workforce boundaries are redrawn, business users are increasingly expecting chief information officers (CIOs) and their IT departments to demonstrate a clear return on investment (ROI). To meet these demands, IT leaders must select the right AI tools, ensuring that they avoid unnecessary technology expenditures while balancing organizational efficiency and productivity.

CIOs have the opportunity to position themselves as strategic forces within their organizations by improving IT service management (ITSM)—the processes, policies, and procedures that guide how IT resources and services are designed, managed, and delivered. However, a May 2024 survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services revealed a concerning trend: only 22% of respondents reported that their organizations provide ITSM in a very effective manner.

Join us for an in-depth discussion on the transformative promise of AI in ITSM.

Here’s what you can expect to learn:

● The power of AI in enhancing employee experiences
● Challenges in implementing generative AI 
● Best practices in implementing generative AI

Bonus: Get a complimentary copy of “The Service Management Advantage: Helping CIOs Turn IT into a Strategic Powerhouse” report.

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Leveraging AI & ITSM for Strategic Advantage

In the rapidly evolving world of IT operations, staying ahead of potential issues is crucial for maintaining system performance and minimizing downtime. This session, "Optimizing IT Operations: AIOps Strategies for Proactive Issue Resolution," brings together industry experts Cass Cooper, Monika Mital, and Gareth Edward Jones to explore how artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) can transform your IT environment.

Key topics include:
- Implementing AIOps for real-time monitoring and issue detection.
- Leveraging machine learning to predict and prevent system failures.
- Enhancing incident response times with automated resolution techniques.
- Best practices for integrating AIOps into existing IT workflows.
- And more.

Join us to discover how AIOps can empower your IT team to move from a reactive to a proactive stance, enabling smoother operations, improved system reliability, and a more resilient IT infrastructure.

Optimizing IT Operations: AIOps Strategies for Proactive Issue Resolution

Business in 2024 demands a significant shift in the ITSM landscape, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in transforming workplaces. With the emergence of generative AI, enhancing employee experiences has become more critical than ever. As workforce boundaries are redrawn, business users are increasingly expecting chief information officers (CIOs) and their IT departments to demonstrate a clear return on investment (ROI). To meet these demands, IT leaders must select the right AI tools, ensuring that they avoid unnecessary technology expenditures while balancing organizational efficiency and productivity.

CIOs have the opportunity to position themselves as strategic forces within their organizations by improving IT service management (ITSM)—the processes, policies, and procedures that guide how IT resources and services are designed, managed, and delivered. However, a May 2024 survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services revealed a concerning trend: only 22% of respondents reported that their organizations provide ITSM in a very effective manner.

Join us for an in-depth discussion on the transformative promise of AI in ITSM.

Here’s what you can expect to learn:

● The power of AI in enhancing employee experiences
● Challenges in implementing generative AI 
● Best practices in implementing generative AI

Bonus: Get a complimentary copy of “The Service Management Advantage: Helping CIOs Turn IT into a Strategic Powerhouse” report.

In this talk, we will explore the transformative power of Generative AI and intelligent applications in modern enterprises. The audience will understand the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and how Copilot architectures can enhance their effectiveness. The session will also cover how Insight can help organisations in their AI journey. 

Additionally, we will present our approach and assets for the delivery of Generative AI projects. Finally, we will showcase some customer cases that we have delivered in Europe highlighting how they have helped our clients evolve their knowledge management and customer interactions.

Digital Transformation with Generative AI and Intelligent Applications

Reimagining IT Operations with AI

Join Jeff Rumburg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at MetricNet, as he explores how AI is revolutionizing IT service management. Using case study examples, Jeff will share practical insights on how these technologies have driven significant improvements in service delivery, focusing on measurable outcomes such as reduced ticket volumes, improved resolution times, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Attendees Will Learn:
- Real-world examples of AI integration within IT service management and the measurable benefits achieved.
- Practical strategies for implementing AI technologies to optimize IT service operations.
- Metrics and KPIs critical for evaluating the success of AI integrations in IT services.

Enhance IT Service Management with AI: Proven Strategies and Metrics for Success

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