

Knowledge management (KM) has enjoyed something of a chequered history in the corporate arena, with many early implementations failing to live up to full expectations. This is perhaps unsurprising given the high hopes for KM and the practical difficulties that many organizations experienced when trying to effectively create, capture, organize, access and use knowledge.
This paper argues that part of the problem historically has been the deployment of KM systems either as standalone applications or in environments where the business benefit was relatively low. As technology has progressed to a point where many of the knowledge capture, storage and retrieval problems have been solved, KM is now emerging as an important competitive differentiator in specific deployment scenarios, including most notably service desk functions.

Success Story
Read how the world's largest privately held commercial real estate services firm implemented standardized, repeatable processes based on ITIL best practice principles using LANDesk Service Desk.
"I recommend LANDesk® Service Desk over any of the other leading service desk products out there. It has increased our productivity, decreased our time of call closure, minimized our down time, and has saved us significant time and money."
Jimmy Misenheimer
Information Systems Project Leader, Baptist Health
"LANDesk® Service Desk has enabled us to be more efficient and more responsive to the needs of the business."
Marc White,
Director of IT Operations,
Family Health International
"Managing cases or queries is what the software does extremely well and we can see significant benefits in handling all Nominet's case loads within the same application."
Andy Bell
Internal Support Technician
Nominet
"Our second and third-line people now have the headroom to undertake more strategic roles. That has allowed us to develop our in-house skills even more. As a result, we've been able to dramatically reduce our reliance on outside consultants, saving us about £50,000 (GBP) in the first 12 months."
Roger Bearpark
Assistant Head of ICT
Hillingdon

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