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.
When the capabilities of IT service management are applied to other business functions like HR, Finance, Facilities, Legal, Sales, or Marketing to improve service delivery, it is known as ESM (Enterprise Service Management)
Like most things that are changing and challenging our way of living, the accelerating change in unfamiliar customer behaviors disrupted supply chains, and diverse regional responses are challenging the traditional IT practices. To address these adverse circumstances that are stressing current operating models, companies must envision and execute new experiences, and digitally express their brand values to customers and employees by meeting their needs at relevant points of engagement. How?
The business needs of IT Service Management (ITSM) are evolving, and I&O leaders must take sufficient action to position their ITSM practices as an enabler of digital business instead of a bottleneck. A recent Gartner report on the 2022 Strategic Roadmap For IT Service Management states, “By 2024, 80% of ITSM teams that have not adopted an agile approach will find that their ITSM practices are ignored or bypassed.”
A never-ending global pandemic and the Great Resignation that shows no sign of slowing down, have made one thing very clear. In order to sustain in a volatile environment such as what’s being witnessed, organizations must level up their IT game to ensure the business runs smoothly and deliver a delightful employee experience every step of the way. To simply put, uninterrupted IT is the need of the hour for unstoppable business.
With a paradigm shift to hybrid work practices and remote working, some critical questions arise. Firstly, how can organizations optimize employee engagement by using service management technology and principles? Secondly, how to digitize processes and assets? Thirdly, and most importantly, how to keep operations running in a world where the ‘work-from-anywhere’ workforce model is prevalent?
