The average IT support ticket takes three calendar days to resolve. Bhavin Shah, CEO of Moveworks In the ITSM realm, there are recurring themes that cause frustratingly long backlogs in support queues and, as a result, increase departmental overhead costs to undesirable levels. Not surprisingly, IT department managers seek cost-saving solutions to…
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Top 3 challenges when starting to work remotely
The expected growth rate of full-time remote work over the next five years has doubled, from 30% to 65%. An Upwork survey If your company is transitioning from a traditional office environment to a remote or distributed setting, chances are you have or will encounter some sizable obstacles that impede…
3 tips to improve SLA resolution time for your JSD powered service desk
Jira Service Desk (JSD) is a very popular solution for IT service desks across many industries. Service desks that love it often echo some of the following comments: Dead simple service ticket creation Convenient people tagging Seamless integration with Confluence (and other Atlassian suite products, for that matter), which is…
How to leverage AI to decrease frequently asked questions and enable help desk automation in Slack
For scaling enterprises that have internal support (IT) or client facing (Sales & Customer Support) teams that live in Slack, it’s almost certain that you’ve identified a problem with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)—causing reduced productivity and a backlog for your service team. Most likely, you have enacted a number of…
The role of AI in IT Support and Customer Success
Are you seeing a pattern in your customer service calls or at your internal IT help desk? What do those patterns look like? How do these patterns impact your internal and external SLAs? What strategies have you tested to fix the problem? What worked and what didn’t? You might be…
Fixing Frequently Asked Questions in Slack
A show of hands if you’ve never seen this in your Slack workspace before… Nobody? Shocking… When Slack was born, it was a watershed moment for frequently asked questions just like this. It gave them a new home and IT Managers and Support Teams rejoiced with a nice tidy new…
5 Slack slash-commands that you should be using every day
To achieve peak productivity in the wonderful world of Slack, you’ve got to be an ace with slash-commands. These commands are commonly tied to integrations that are installed into your workspace, by you or your team members, to expand Slack’s functionality to many more use-cases. There are many, but here…