Our first Podcast!

Posted on Monday 10 June 2019.

At SDI, we love nothing more than putting a spotlight on service desks and individuals in the community who are doing amazing things! We thought… How can we create a platform to help share these fantastic experiences and journeys, often full of ups and downs? Enter the SDI Podcast! Which is here to Surprise, Delight,

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SITS19 – They came, they saw, they conquered… and shared best practice!  

Posted on Friday 31 May 2019.

We saw lots of new and familiar faces at the SITS Show this year! It was brilliant as ever to meet you all at SITS19 and have our visitors contribute to the ‘Top Tips for a Brilliant Service Desk’ blackboard! So many brilliant and innovative ideas were jotted down that we’ve decided to share them

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Global Best Practice and the Customer Experience

Posted on Thursday 30 May 2019.

The latest Global Best Practice Standard for Service Desk (version 8) was launched in March this year. At #SDI19 some of the lead contributors took part in a live Q&A panel about the latest changes to the Best Practice Standard. One of the key topics that came up was Managing the Customer Experience, which is

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Service Improvement – Taking it up a Notch!

Posted on Tuesday 16 April 2019.

Attention to service improvement has certainly increased in the last year. Competition among service desks from many industries in both public and private sectors is fierce! In the latest ‘view from the frontline’ survey, results demonstrate that 36% of service desks expect to see a greater focus on continual improvement in the industry, and 66%

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What does the recent ITIL update mean for the service desk?

Posted on Monday 15 April 2019.

by Jamie Bell, Service Desk Specialist, SDI Follow Jamie on Twitter: @thepapabell With ITIL being arguably the most widely accepted framework for IT Service Management worldwide, the release of ITIL 4 has many service desk professionals wondering what this means for them. In ITIL 2011 (or ITIL v3) the service desk was recognised as a

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Key Tips for Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Team

Posted on Thursday 7 March 2019.

Key Tips for Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Team by Scarlett Bayes, Industry Analyst, SDI Last year, SDI teamed up with Ivanti to host a forum for service desk professionals (both male and female) to discuss their thoughts, concerns, and ideas surrounding Gender Equality in ITSM. Throughout the day, delegates expressed that they struggled

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