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Service management

Providing good customer service is an essential. Computing looks at the business and technology prerequisties for keeping your clients happy

Written by Mark Samuels

Under new management

Service management is a discipline that manages IT systems in a holistic, business-centred manner. Service management must become your keystone

A sea change for IT

When lives are at stake, ensuring the best possible IT service for users on the frontline takes on a whole new meaning

Case study: South Somerset Works

South Somerset Works (SSW) has improved field service management by equipping housing maintenance staff with mobile technology to enhance customer service

Case study: Westinghouse Rail

Westinghouse Rail has adopted a service management approach that has promoted trust between IT and the business

Framework for change

IT service management (ITSM) encompasses a range of disciplines and best practice recommendations, as well as various elements of software and hardware

Case study: Sussex Health Informatics Service

The Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) provides IT and associated services to NHS member organisations across the county

Signed, sealed and delivered

Is service quality just about having an appropriate service level agreement (SLA)? It is a universal truth that an IT services contract...

Going on active service requires a team effort

Most services falling within our definition of service management involve the physical movement of goods or people

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