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Setting up a Help Desk for IT, also known as an IT help desk, or overhauling your current help desk and implementing best help desk practices, is the best way to overcome current operational and technology challenges within an organization.

What does an IT help desk do? IT help desks are the first contact point to resolve any technical, network, communications, and hardware difficulties in any company.

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When it comes to personal health information (PHI), healthcare organizations can never be too safe. The repercussions for lost, stolen or manipulated data could cost you large sums of money, a tarnished reputation, and even jail time. According to data shared by HIPAA Journal, there were 347 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2022.

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IT and IT Service Management (ITSM) is a data-intensive business and operational function. In most cases, everything that can be measured is measured in some way. 

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics play a mission-critical role in the management of an IT team. It's also the main way IT operations managers can show senior business leaders how their team is performing.

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ITIL® plays an integral role in IT management and ITSM teams within organizations. As part of ITIL, leaders, managers and team members need to keep the feedback process iterative, constructive, and committed to making continuous service improvements.

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In today's society, several factors can impact business continuity. In addition to physical threats like theft and natural disasters, the Internet — despite its many benefits — can also wreak havoc. Downtime, in any form, can cost a company money and, perhaps, its reputation if not managed correctly.

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ITIL® is an acronym that stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL is a best-practice framework that guides the actions, operations, and measurable outputs from IT Service Management (ITSM) teams. 

ITIL is not the only framework in town. However, ITIL is well-known, respected, and widely implemented as a service framework for ITSM operations and service teams, also known as IT departments, help desks, and IT vendors.

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Building software products is inherently risky. Regardless of cloud providers and security vendors you might work with, the Web, as we know it, is a high-risk environment for software developers and applications.

Cybercrime is on the rise. Cybercriminals, either in organized gangs, professional criminal hackers (sometimes known as Hacking as a Service), and even unhappy employees or contractors will always find a way to weaken an organization's security.

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New and seasoned businesspeople know that a well-thought-out business model and strategy are two key ingredients needed to create a successful company. 

However, something discussed less frequently is an operating or operational model. This outlines important details about a company, including those regarding employees, processes, systems and technology.

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At some point or another, we have probably trusted our "gut" with making a decision. In other cases, you make a decision, which turns out to be incorrect, and then proclaim, "I should have gone with my gut." Intuition can seem like an attractive prospect in decision making, although there's plenty of research to suggest that it is nothing more than the luck of the draw. Whether you are deciding on a new personal auto insurance plan, or a big partnership at the company you run, data can help you better understand and quantify a decision. This is where data-driven decision making, or DDDM for short, can make a big difference. So, how can you validate an action before committing using DDDM? The answer is not straightforward. How you incorporate DDDM into your business is highly subjective. It will depend on things like the industry, business goals, client-type and, of course, the way you collect and process data. Continue reading to find out how you can transition from intuition to data-driven decision making at your business.

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