The Zog Blog

How should your IT help desk work to help you secure your data? Let me start with a story: About a year ago, I received a frantic call from a business owner that needed figuring out how their...

Have you ever heard the phrase “If you can’t measure, you can’t manage”? This mantra of using metrics to inform management decisions is commonly credited to Peter Drucker, who emphasizes the fact...

Is your help desk optimizing their service toward your users’ needs and expectations? Do they seek user feedback? More than 47% of help desks don’t get user feedback on their computer support issues....

When you’re forced to wait on hold and keep hearing “your call is important” over and over, don’t you feel like just hanging up? And if your computer problem is simple enough for a technician to...

I’m sure you’ve heard this advice before: you can’t manage what you don’t measure. This advice is particularly true for IT help desks—where performance metrics can be to understand whether your users...

Why Your IT Business Technology Initiatives Fail Maybe you call them business objectives, initiatives or annual goals, but I’m certain you have been thinking (at the very least!) to identify how to...

When you contact your IT help desk, you want your computer problem resolved right away. And if an issue is too complicated, you want the issue resolved sooner than later. When you’re waiting to hear...

How solution discovery and rediscovery are both critical components to a successful and efficient IT help desk. I’m sure you’ve experienced from time to time the need to remember how to do something...

If you’ve ever had to deal with your IT support desk, I’m sure you’ve had to deal with waiting on hold. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll at least get to listen to some music worth listening to. But if...

Maybe you’re not aware, but the help desk is often regarded as one of the easiest ways into your networks. Security experts often refer to help desks as a companies’ biggest security vulnerability...