IT Support has evolved.
Meet the new standard.
In ITIL standard practice alone, many global issues remain.
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Flow Management builds up from ITIL to remove all issues. A set of tool-based capabilities for attentive service from support teams.
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Eliminate slow & unresponsive support.
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Maintain accurate expectations automatically.
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Engage breakthrough team performance.
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Elevate SLA's | XLA's with advanced metrics.
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AI enablement through focused knowledge capture.
Flow Management closes the gaps that IT Experience Management cannot reach alone. Read about where it fits in.
FM is "True Best Practice" for IT Support - one half of the Focus Framework.
How?
Without Flow Management, IT support is focused on tickets, not on what is important: The support activity required to meet needs and expectations.
Why?
Activity-based capability #1 is for Timeliness
#2 is for Reliability
#3 is for Ease
#4 is for AI.
Activity Prioritisation (AP)
Effortlessly guide all required support activity with ideal timing.
Contribution Recognition
Enable cross-queue-teamwork for reliable flow of activity.
Portal Purposing
Remove Call-Centre reliance by moving to the always responsive Digital Channel Service Desk.
KCS & AI
Flow Management is the means for AI success.
Are you losing focus on older tickets?
Or, does your support flow?
Worldwide, over a quarter of IT support needs are not completed straight-away. A quarter of these turn bad due to slowness or service failure*.
By simply enhancing your use of ticket statuses, Activity Prioritisation (AP) merges new ticket responses with timely scheduled progression of all older tickets. The question of "what next?" becomes a thing of the past, and no ticket can be left forgotten.
​AP ensures conversation threads are never missed, nor replies
delayed. Then, with accurate timeframe expectations shared on your service portal, service customers might never need to chase a response again.
See how it compares.
AP Facts: 21 support statuses are universal, arising in every organisation. Use of 12 is required for AP to be effective - add more for timelier service.
In total, the standard includes three dozen statuses that an organisation may choose from to better meet individual operational needs.
For the complete AP advantage, add Contribution Recognition and choose from a range of integrated capabilities...
Looking for strong performance?
Or, do your teams keenly ensure it?
Contribution Recognition moves focus from closing-down tickets to attentiveness of work guided by AP. Attentiveness is seen in up to 12 types of support activity. Six are high priority including help for co-workers when progression falls behind, breaking-down ticket queue silos, minimising completion time, avoiding SLA breaches, and revitalising performance reviews with a focus on teamwork.
To see how it works, book a demo.
Contribution Recognition is the central component of Team Performance Management. TPM is a set of five capabilities that include welfare support, particularly beneficial for distributed and WFH teams.
Want maximum uptake for your Digital Channels?
For non-urgent support needs, employees and customers prefer to use a service portal*. When speed is of the essence though, particularly when IT things go wrong, a phone call tends to be the choice.
But Call-Centre reliance has 16 disadvantages that affect those needing support as much as service providers.
Flow Management's Portal Purposing for urgent needs enables the Digital Channel Service Desk. It removes every Call-Centre disadvantage, making Flow Management not only for the 25%, but for every new ticket too.
A third game-changer.
Even though Flow Management removes every global support issue, it's a way-of-working (wOw) that is simply enhancement, not change.
Support is your main “experience arena”. Timeliness makes it good. Timeliness needs Activity Prioritisation. Reliability needs Teamwork. Experience Management needs Flow Metrics. FM produces all three.
Interested in IT Experience ?
Activity Prioritisation is simply an adjustment, but support becomes entirely streamlined across team & enterprise silos.
AI & Automation can only assist
Learn the Focus Framework. Flow Management is one half of the Focus Framework. The other is 20 High Performance Principles upon which FM is based - the criteria necessary for support to be done well. The principles are taught in our free microlearning course for developing advanced Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).​​
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The future of human-centric support is here.
Let's shape yours together.
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