As the pandemic pushed businesses online overnight, companies quickly scaled automation and self-service technology like chatbots and knowledge based FAQs to deflect and resolve employee support issues. However, IT teams have a big opportunity to go beyond resolving tech requests and make it a delightful exchange that deepens relationships across the business.

How do you measure the success of your IT service delivery if you’re not closely monitoring the numbers that dictate the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization’s service delivery? As IT leaders, you need to measure the performance of service desk processes by tracking critical ITSM metrics to understand the impact on overall business goals. Many IT service management (ITSM) metrics can give you a clear picture of where you stand on the IT service delivery podium.

IT project management, like every other discipline in modern business, is heavily dependent on technology and data to be effective. Unlike other disciplines, however, technology has not had a significant impact on how project-management processes are performed. The same activities that were once done manually are now supported by software to improve efficiency.

Businesses today operate in a highly dynamic environment. And it’s safe to say that over the last couple of years IT departments have witnessed an unprecedented change. While digital transformations have been among the key initiatives for most organizations, covid 19 catapulted enterprise digital transformation to become the top priority for many businesses. With this shift, the IT department has taken center stage.

Claiming that SaaS is the future is a broad statement until you take a second and look around you. Be it for your business or everyday needs, every problem has one or more SaaS solutions to solve them. People today are well aware of this growing reality that simpler, cheaper SaaS solutions are available all around them to make their lives easy.

Today, there is a need for every business to be digital, and technology as you know it lies at the heart of every business. Determining technology’s role in enabling and driving business success has always been a top priority for IT leaders. But these days, IT leaders are also faced with the added pressure of adjusting to the recent economic and societal changes, namely, remote work and employee mobility, to drive viable business results.

The role and perception of IT have changed from a cost center to a revenue driver. Today, businesses that lean into IT to drive business transformations stand a better chance of appealing to their end-users than those that don’t. As the scale, pace, and impact of technological disruptions and innovations escalate exponentially, the action of IT leaders, such as yourselves, will largely determine the success or demise of a business.

Peanut butter and jelly are two great condiments on their own but pairing them together elevates the sandwich game to a whole other level. That’s pretty much the case with employee experience and customer experience. When organizations pair EX and CX together and channel their efforts to keep both ends of the spectrum happy and delighted, the end result is the sweet and salty aftertaste of PB&J in the form of lower employee turnover and higher customer satisfaction.

The high penetration of cloud-based applications and the Great Resignation that shows no sign of slowing down makes technology the differentiator for organizations, stressing the need for uninterrupted IT now more than ever. As Christopher Kay from the Hackett Group rightly pointed out in a session at the Be Unstoppable virtual summit, delivering a great employee experience at the workplace is the linchpin for organizations to fight the battle against the Great Resignation.

Given a choice, would you rather wait for a cab ride that’s 25 mins away or look for other options to reach your destination faster? Without a doubt, you would pick the latter, right? Today’s ‘want-it-now’ consumer mentality is driving most technology organizations to rethink how they interact with employees and customers. Employees have consumer-grade expectations for corporate applications, and IT requests at the workplace.