Do you remember September 2018? Is it just a blur? This week’s blog will look at what our University Service Support tool data tells us about last year with the Student Experience being the focus. It will also attempt to predict what may happen this year! For many parts of the University, September represents the […]

In my last post  I spoke about the different types of calls that we see here at the University of Edinburgh and this post is an expansion on the topic, where I’ll explain more about the considerations that we need to make when handling different types of calls and what makes each call type unique. […]

Prepnicalities is a horrific portmanteau that I’ve created just for the purposes of this blog post. It’s such an awful combination, that I’m hoping it’s memorable. Or at least, that it sticks in your craw long enough for me to illustrate the concept I’m outlining in this post. The thing is, considering Changes isn’t usually […]

The majority of people don’t want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. B. F. Skinner (Walden Two) I once heard a senior manager declare that they didn’t consider disaster planning useful as their staff did their best work under pressure… So, why should we plan?  I think we may […]

The word “Incident” has been used for many years at The University of Edinburgh. We used it in our original Call Management tool Remedy, then in CMS and when UniDesk our current ITSM tool launched, our individual tickets were called “Incidents”. This never really sat well with the ITIL aware among us and so, in […]