Latest / The DEX Show: A Show for IT Change Makers / The future of ITIL & DEX (w/ Matt Beran)
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- 0:01Welcome it, changemakers to the Deck Show with Tim Flower and Tom McGraw.
- 0:07Let's get into it. Hello changemakers, it's another deck show. I'm Tom
- 0:11McGrath. I'm joined by Tim Flower and Tim We've got competition in the house.
- 0:16To Damian, we've got competition of the show. What do you make
- 0:20of it? Is this? Was this a wise a wise move? I
- 0:23don't know. I don't know. I love the competition, but you know
- 0:27what, it's friendly competition and there's so much to talk about. I love
- 0:30love having guys like Matt. I'm the show exactly. We've got Matt Barron
- 0:35host and of the excellent ticket Volume. And I will say straight up the
- 0:40bat. You know, the first time I heard the show title ticket Volume,
- 0:44Matt, I thought, damn, that's a good title right there.
- 0:48Not that I have a competitive streak. I wouldn't want you to come away
- 0:51from misintroduction with a wrong idea. You know, I love it. Thank
- 0:55you, thank you so much. Thanks for having me too, so Matt.
- 0:58My background, I was at Hartford for twenty five years, implemented tons
- 1:03of stuff over the year's ninety Actually twenty years, not twenty five exaggerated.
- 1:07It felt like twenty five, but implemented from ninety five to twenty fifteen.
- 1:14So many technologies, including at the end, Next Think and the Big Metric.
- 1:19The big claim to fame that that we were able to achieve was an
- 1:22eighty percent ticket reduction in L one tickets at the help desk. Eighty percent
- 1:26of the inbounds went away. We didn't deflect them with self service, we
- 1:32didn't route them somewhere else. We stabilize the environments and that things just stopped
- 1:37breaking. And that eighty percent ticket reduction at five bucks apiece to our L
- 1:42one help desk provider was two and a half million dollars recurring every year.
- 1:48So when I saw your title of ticket reduction, I said our ticket volume
- 1:52said, holy cow. It It resonated with me, and I know it
- 1:57has to resonate with your audience too. It's pretty cool. Yeah, for
- 2:00sure, what a great story. And you've nailed it, man. I
- 2:02mean that's what it's all about. Stabilize, improve yep. And that was
- 2:07always my mantras. Fix the crap that's broken and has been broken for years,
- 2:14and then stop breaking it so you can now implement change with confidence.
- 2:19That you already know it's not going to break in if it does break,
- 2:22you know, without people having to call your outdesk, you can stop,
- 2:24you can communicate, you can adjust. It's so much you can do with
- 2:28that visibility and it uah, it never gets old. Yeah, pays off
- 2:35in spades. Yep. What about you, Matt, what was your What
- 2:38was your background prior to starting which, Yeah, my background, um,
- 2:42it has been largely the same. I did um tons of service service management
- 2:47implementations, cut my teeth doing customer service for great Clips, a giant um
- 2:55hair salon place in the States here, and really just kind of have always
- 3:01just loved helping people. I grew up on a farm and so the mindset
- 3:07there was really you know, if you see something broken, fix it.
- 3:12And I've just kind of taken that with me into the service and support world.
- 3:15And early on in my career I had really good mentors and one of
- 3:21them pointed out HDI, a great organization for help desk professionals and service desk
- 3:25professionals, and it kind of just exposed me to this world that there's an
- 3:31entire ecosystem and a career path and a focus on delivering great service building designing
- 3:39and delivering great service, so stuck with it and loved it ever since.
- 3:44Lately, I cut my teeth doing tons of service now implementations over the last
- 3:50decade or so, and now recently have joined a company called Invigate, a
- 3:54absolutely fantastic service management solution that focuses on basic ticketing, incident problem change knowledge,
- 4:03and then also another solution that does asset management and cmdbs. So just
- 4:09kind of love in the space and continuing to try to give back to the
- 4:12community through the podcast and everything else I do amazing and obviously our focus here
- 4:17is a bit more in digital employee experience. Expressly interested to start out,
- 4:24but by hearing how you think that concept has really been influencing and changing the
- 4:29whole realm of service management a large lately. Yes, my goodness, it
- 4:35feels like the other way, like service management is influencing the decks world.
- 4:39But maybe that's just because I'm in it operations all the time. But when
- 4:45you think about it at the very base, I was talking about software license
- 4:48management yesterday with one of my colleagues and they said, what are the outcomes?
- 4:54And I started to kind of peel back the onion and I realize and
- 4:58I'm sorry from dropping business jargon away on my podcast, But what we were
- 5:02doing is dissecting the idea and I realized that so much of it is focused
- 5:08on financial and efficiency, and we sort of forget in our effort to improve
- 5:15the cost and the operation of the thing that at the end of the day,
- 5:20the applications that we pick and select impact our employees ability to deliver,
- 5:28what makes them special, what makes them awesome and makes them productive, makes
- 5:33them useful to the company. So that's that's just one of the ways that
- 5:40you know, I think service management is starting to kind of wake up to
- 5:43this idea that experience management, experience design, and the concepts of like co
- 5:50creation of value are starting to really permeate our space. And we're starting to
- 5:56really see people design services with with the people that consume them. So a
- 6:03great example is, you know, we used to just pick the laptop that
- 6:08everyone got and that's the laptop that you get. Well, now you see
- 6:12teams that are more focused on selecting those tools with the employees. They're you
- 6:16know, doing trial programs with the employees, having employees come in and seeing
- 6:21you know, ten or twelve models in a conference room. We're really starting
- 6:26to glom onto the ideas that DEX brings to us and then put it into
- 6:32operations, put it into actions. What do you think is the absolute key
- 6:39to delivering the digital employee experience in your view? Taking that into account,
- 6:43M yes, well, I guess the keys There's two that really come to
- 6:50mind right away, because we always said when we're consulting, meet the meet
- 6:55the people where they are. UM, don't don't try to just um you
- 7:00know, top down control you're going to do things this way. Listen to
- 7:03the people and meet them where they are. But I also think, like
- 7:08tied to that same software license story that I had, people are looking for
- 7:14freedom and autonomy and so many of our and that's hard to scale. That's
- 7:19hard to you know, when you've got ten thousand employees, it's hard to
- 7:23say, Okay, everyone can have whatever applications that they want. So you
- 7:28end up having to sort of operationalize that how how do we provide more freedom,
- 7:32more autonomy, but still make it supportable and cost effective and and and
- 7:40the way that we think it should be and the way that they think that
- 7:43it should be. So I think it really it ends up being that sort
- 7:46of pairing of people, you know, balancing the cost constraints and the supportability
- 7:51constraints with the freedom and autonomy. It's that's what employee experience kind of feels
- 7:58like to me. What about the link between employee experience and customer experience?
- 8:05Oh my gosh, this one's a good one, and I think a lot
- 8:09of people are hitting. I mean, I think it's fairly widely accepted now
- 8:13that if you've got a good employee experience, eventually the customer experience is going
- 8:16to be impacted. Whether it's because the employees are just happy so they're providing
- 8:22better customer service, or some other link that ties it directly. But to
- 8:28me anyway, I think longer term, I think bigger picture, and you
- 8:35see this in DI initiatives to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, where it's
- 8:41more than just making people comfortable, it's about making better products that serve more
- 8:46people. And I think the same can be said for ex driving CX,
- 8:52in that if you've got happy employees, then eventually what you're delivering, the
- 8:58product the services are actually going to improve, and therefore your CX is going
- 9:03to improve. So yes, there is this direct correlation happy people we get
- 9:07happy people, but also happy people build better services and products. But even
- 9:16there's a baseline, right, it's great to create the positivity, they will
- 9:20in turn create a better product, a better customer experience. But on the
- 9:26flip side, even just the baseline, like we're talking about before, stop
- 9:30breaking it right, Stop inserting hurdles and causing them to actually deliver poor service.
- 9:37I can't tell you how many times I've been on the phone with my
- 9:41cell phone provider or my cable provider to get service and they'll invariably say,
- 9:48hang on a minute, my PC just rebooted. I'm gonna have to transfer
- 9:50it to somebody else. That experience you're now creating, you're not creating positivity,
- 9:56you're creating negativity, and you're actually losing business. This um it's it's
- 10:03such a Over the years, it has I think, not had real good
- 10:07visibility into their impact on the business. They're here to serve an it function.
- 10:13I need to deliver this piece of software. Damn the torpedoes full speed
- 10:16ahead. And you know if they break, well, they'll call. Surely
- 10:22they'll call. If we break them, half of them don't call. And
- 10:24that's that's the paradox with ticket volume is if my current ticket volume only represents
- 10:30half of my problems, I have an incrementally bigger problem to solve. But
- 10:35the paradox is I can't tell them to all call because I can't handle the
- 10:39ticket volume I have. I can't double my expenses, so I almost hope
- 10:43that they don't call. It's such a it's such a paradox, and it
- 10:46kind of to flip it as well. It has a long history of not
- 10:52wanting to listen. Right, we are the technology pros. Employees don't know
- 10:58technology we do. We're going to tell them which device to get, which
- 11:03software to get what they kind of can't do, what the governance rules are.
- 11:07But there's there's a key pillar in experience that we have to break it
- 11:13down and get them to listen. Right, what do you think the key
- 11:18is to get a techie to effectively listen to their customer. Yes, great
- 11:24question, And this is something that I try to do in all of my
- 11:28workshops, all of my consulting engagements is to get get people. It's the
- 11:33design life cycle. Yeah, when when you're conducting that research, when when
- 11:39you're when you're selecting that laptop and you've got ten models in a conference room.
- 11:43The agents need to be in there, the people involved, because it's
- 11:48not just customers, it's the stakeholders that need to be involved. And the
- 11:52same goes for app dev and infrastructure. You know, if you're building a
- 11:56Wi Fi network, go and watch people use the Wi Fi. You know,
- 12:01go in, or you're selecting software, if you're in charge of application
- 12:05management, you should definitely be sitting next to employees doing their job on a
- 12:11regular basis. And it's not something that you can just delegate out to a
- 12:16specific team because then people they see the data and maybe they'll change. But
- 12:22when you see it happening, when you see someone literally copying and pasting Excel
- 12:26row after Excel roll over and over and over, immediately you're you're thinking,
- 12:33this is the dumbest way to do this, and there's one hundred apps that
- 12:37can fix this for you. And suddenly your eyes open the and your portfolio
- 12:43is going to change. You're going to add that in, You're going to
- 12:46understand why you're adding that in, and you're going to be able to speak
- 12:50to your superiors and the other people involved and explain to them why this software
- 12:56is now being added to the stable. We had just a quick anecdote.
- 13:01We had two applications that were customer facing at our call center, and I
- 13:05did a field tour. I went to forty field offices in six weeks,
- 13:09was in a different city every day. I was sitting with employees, watching
- 13:11them do their job, watching them struggle through their hurdles of the day.
- 13:16And one employee I sat with on the call center was taking a customer account
- 13:20number from one application, copying and pasting it into notepad so they had a
- 13:26running record of it, and then would then take that consolidated set of information
- 13:31a notepad, copy it and paste it into the other application. And nobody
- 13:35knew that workflow was so incredibly broken, and the employee was onboarded that way.
- 13:39They just felt that's the way it is. So see to your point,
- 13:41sitting with the business, seeing how they function, they don't know technology
- 13:46and they don't know that that can be fixed. So so much value in
- 13:50spending time with the business. Couldn't agree with you more. We've got to
- 13:54give a trigger warning before some of these stories. So let's let's switch to
- 14:01a little bit different topic. Let's talk about and you were kind of apologized
- 14:05early on for throwing some jargoning. So let's talk about buzzwords, right,
- 14:09what's your thought on a couple of catch all buzzwords? Will start with the
- 14:13one that's trending right now. AI. Everything drops into AI, whether it's
- 14:18an analytics or analysis. What's your what's your view on AI? My view
- 14:26on AIM? I am a hopeful, optimistic, positive thinker who who definitely
- 14:35likes to try new things, and I think AI is a fantastic tool.
- 14:41I think the reason that it's such a hot topic right now isn't necessarily because
- 14:46it's new. I think that a lot of the combinatorial um um analysis and
- 14:52suggestion and engines that predictive analytic engines have been around for a long time,
- 14:58and a lot tools have been using them for a long time. It's just
- 15:01that now we've added like a language later, so another very popular. And
- 15:07so I think big call centers, large IT shops have been using this for
- 15:13a long time to scale employees, and certainly with the addition of good language
- 15:18models, large language models, it's going to go even further. Right,
- 15:22It's going to be easier for us to suggest things and provide responses. I
- 15:28mean, even at my own company, i'd invigate we're adding it to our
- 15:31ticketing system. Of course we are, because there's so many situations where an
- 15:37agent may not have the skills or the background to write a great response on
- 15:43a ticket. So let's let them get suggestions. Let's make it easy for
- 15:50it to push against an API really quickly out to chat, GPT or open
- 15:54AI and then quickly provide a response back that either sounds more professional or has
- 16:02more detail, or maybe has less detail. And so there's a huge opportunity
- 16:07there. And then also, you know, you look at what I do
- 16:11is I'm a process nerd. So it's all about like, how do we
- 16:14reduce friction in the process. And one thing that I really like is the
- 16:18concept of KCS knowledge centered support or knowledge centered service. And one of the
- 16:26things about knowledge centered service is be able to draft the articles. Let's get
- 16:30those articles created. It fills a pipeline of knowledge content that you can then
- 16:36leverage later. And these large language models, if they're great at writing,
- 16:41which I think we've kind of confirmed they're pretty good at writing, what a
- 16:45great spot to start and make it easy so that you can click on a
- 16:48ticket and generate a knowledge article. So those are just some of the things
- 16:52that I that we're trying as a company. But yeah, there's always buzzwords,
- 16:57there's always trends. DevOps this was a big one for a while,
- 17:00and I think what's really key is that we don't that they don't shift,
- 17:11right. So DevOps is a cultural movement around basically you build it, you
- 17:15support it, and you do it all together as a team, and it's
- 17:18meant to be a very calm process. And with AI, I think it's
- 17:26kind of the same way, like, let's let's not make it what it
- 17:30isn't already, let's not jump to conclusions, and hopefully, you know,
- 17:34we can glean the value out of it as much as possible. And I
- 17:40also want to say this that it is it's offensive to think that a human
- 17:45can be replaced by it because what we're doing here communicating you know, you
- 17:51see my hand gestures, you see the way that I'm looking at you,
- 17:53that I'm paying attention. Although it may be replicated someday by an AI or
- 18:00an engine or some similar similachrum, I don't think that we're at the point
- 18:06where humans don't provide value, So let's not jump to that conclusion. It's
- 18:12I think that's such an important point. There's a train of thought that the
- 18:18AI large language models are getting more creative, more responsive, more natural language
- 18:26like and I think that we can be fooled into thinking that creativity is replicating
- 18:32human creativity. Right, I on the spot can listen to what you say,
- 18:37your creativity and the words that you form in our conversation and respond to
- 18:41it in I hope, a different way, a more human way than a
- 18:47chatbot can. It'd be interesting to see what happens over the next ten years,
- 18:51but I'm hoping that human creativity doesn't get replaced. But it is such
- 18:56an important part of everything we do. How about a different sort of words,
- 19:03buzzwords or will stay on that truck? Predictive used predictive already We've maybe
- 19:08covered that a little bit, But what do you feel the difference between predictive
- 19:12and proactive is? M oh, that's great. Um, what I think
- 19:19of predictive? I really do think of looking at trends historical data. For
- 19:26instance, you might you might choose a hardware vendor based on past performance.
- 19:33Do I like all the dells that we have? Should we switch vendors?
- 19:37Um? Do I like all the HP desktops that we have should I should
- 19:41I trust them again? And you see that with network gear too. Proactive
- 19:45really feels like planning. And if you subscribe to any of the IT frameworks,
- 19:52all of them kind of talk about that service design and service transition phases.
- 19:57And I really feel like that's where a lot of the proactive elements should
- 20:02be living. Now. There are elements of continual service improvement and problem management
- 20:08is gonna you know, say all right, well, proactively we can fix
- 20:11these incidents if we set up a redundant server or redundant networks or um,
- 20:19you know, design our services in a way that that they're a bit more
- 20:25dependable, so that that's where I think proactive really lives. Yeah, um,
- 20:30what do you think? Am I wrong? What is the decks angle?
- 20:33Yeah? So you know when we in my previous employers set up the
- 20:38proactive services team, UM that the positive side of it was, UM,
- 20:45great work. We don't need to wait for customers and employees to call it
- 20:48helped usk anymore. We're going to be proactive. But really, the problem
- 20:52already existed. Our tools are just telling us that something broke. So you
- 20:56really haven't been proactive in solving the problem. You've just been proactive in not
- 21:00needing them to call you about it. So proactive for me and for our
- 21:04team's got to be the point where to my earlier rant was stop breaking it.
- 21:11Let's be proactive in development and in test and in deployment, so that
- 21:15we're proactively, to your point, planning the rollout, and we're planning into
- 21:21the design the stability that we need and the reliability that we need, versus
- 21:26just throwing it out there and you know if if it breaks, surely someone
- 21:30would call you know I over the over the years, my my brain kind
- 21:37of kicks in and says, think about it a different way. Let me
- 21:41let me pose this to you. Distributed computing doesn't exist yet. We design
- 21:47it and we build it, and tomorrow we're going to roll out thirty thousand
- 21:51devices. Distributed computing is going to hit us in one day. And we've
- 21:56got this great design, We've got all the applications, we've got the standard
- 21:59opera system, and you know what we're gonna do for support. We've got
- 22:03this great model. We're gonna put fifty people on a help desk. We're
- 22:07gonna give them phones and computers, and when the PCs break, we've got
- 22:11a great solution. All they have to do is call us and tell us.
- 22:15And for problem management, we've got an even better solution because now that
- 22:18we're tracking all the problems at the help desk, we can out trend the
- 22:21problems and do problem management based on the phone calls. You'd get kicked out
- 22:25of the office. You would be thrown out on your ear because it's the
- 22:27dumbest model ever. But we've been working with it for thirty years. It's
- 22:32insanity. Yeah. Yeah, the razor razor blade model. You know,
- 22:37if if there's a lot of money to be made and fixing a problem,
- 22:40there's a lot of money to be made and not fixing it permanently. Yep.
- 22:44I had an executive tell me I can't afford to do decks because now
- 22:47I have to fix everything. Yeah my god. Yeah, but it ends
- 22:52up it ends up being a major cost driver. I mean, your revenue
- 22:56goes up, your overall operational costs go down. And I think another word
- 23:02like if in the IT space anyway, as simile would be hardening, you're
- 23:06really making it such that it can't break, or if it does that it's
- 23:11such a great experience that you're ready for it. Like, for example,
- 23:15and I love these examples. You know, for the longest time, if
- 23:18a user had a problem with their laptop and it was the operating system,
- 23:22you'd pull the machine, you'd pull all the data off, you'd wipe it,
- 23:26you'd put the data back on and give it back to them. Well,
- 23:30the new model isn't that way. You and I both know that it's
- 23:33more common now. For if an employee has a problem with their laptop,
- 23:37you're shipping them a new one right away, and it's going to have their
- 23:41profile loaded on it. It's probably going to have a lot of their apps
- 23:45preloaded. And if you're if you're really cutting edge, you know you're you're
- 23:51you're making it such that if they report a specific problem, it's already being
- 23:55imaged in a locker next to their house, like as close as possible to
- 23:59their GEO as possible, and they can go in, pull the new one,
- 24:03put the old one, and they got that new one. And if
- 24:06you really want to take that to the next level, you're upgrading their laptop
- 24:10at the same time. And that makes it such that not only not only
- 24:15are they are they excited that that this problem is going to go away,
- 24:19and that they're going to have a clean, high performing computer, but you
- 24:22upgraded them as well, which is going to give them a better experience.
- 24:26Well, hopefully it's a better experience. Hopefully they don't have to replace all
- 24:29their peripherals and a bunch of other things too. But even flip that,
- 24:33you know from a pendulum perspective, and I've had executives talk me through that
- 24:37process, and you know, down the road, the same executives come back
- 24:41and say, look at all these laptops we're shipping. Look at all these
- 24:45devices. Every time something breaks, I have to ship an entire new laptop.
- 24:48Why can't I just fix this stuff? Or better yet, why can't
- 24:51I just stop breaking it? And then I don't have to replace the employee's
- 24:52laptop every time they have a problem, because that new laptop that goes back
- 24:56out to them, if you haven't fixed the root cause of breakage, it's
- 25:00gonna break again and you're gonna ship them another new laptop. The cycle lots
- 25:04of different perspectives on their right way to handle stability, reliability, predictability,
- 25:11And that's one of them is why spend an hour fixing something when it's just
- 25:15as easy to ship them a new laptop. But if you're shipping them a
- 25:17new laptop every thirty days, something's got to shift. Yeah, yeah,
- 25:22it's That's what I love about this line of business is there's so many different
- 25:29things to think about and uh and to try. So let's let's wrap up
- 25:34the buzzword conversation, the mother of all buzzword inventors. What are your thoughts
- 25:40about the future of IT till all of our modern IT buzzwords go from?
- 25:44I tell, where do you think that goes? From a design cycle perspective?
- 25:49Where you know it? Does? I tell? Still stay relative and
- 25:52kind of accommodate all of the different thought processes. Yes, I think the
- 25:59advanced from IT till three to it till four have really have really helped.
- 26:04It's It's really what the industry has needed. Um, whether you're discovering it
- 26:10through it till or some other framework. The the idea of designing services with
- 26:15your with the stakeholders in mind is a huge benefit to the ecosystem. I
- 26:22think what's tough about IT now is that it's now a private venture. Yeah,
- 26:30it till has been purchased several times by three companies, Capita, Axelos
- 26:34and now People sert. And the way that it came about was the UK
- 26:41government really their IT department really realized, hey, we need a standard operating
- 26:48model, we need we need ways to talk about this stuff so that we
- 26:51can all communicate well. And I feel like it's evolved. We have evolved
- 26:56as a as a as a society, technology has involved has has evolved.
- 27:03So now it's not it's not a new concept to explain to a new employee
- 27:08that you create a ticket when something is broken, right, It's it's not
- 27:11a new concept that there's a difference between requesting something and reporting that it's broken.
- 27:18That's not new anymore. Um. And so I think that since we've
- 27:22evolved, I feel like the relevance has gone down that And you see it
- 27:30in I TILL four. And I was speaking at event earlier this week and
- 27:33someone came up to me and asked, where do I go to get processes?
- 27:37Where do I go to get like a standard incident process? And sure,
- 27:41you can google it, and there's an awesome it TILL wiki out there,
- 27:45and there's a million frameworks I could name ten right now that you could
- 27:52focus on besides I TILL that are going to be more accessible and I think
- 27:56that is one of the reasons that this privatization is going to ultimately hurt the
- 28:02relevance because the companies that have bought it need to make money back, and
- 28:08the people that are interested in the framework and the ideas, you know,
- 28:12maybe they do have a company that has bought into it, and they do
- 28:15have someone that they can get reimbursement for or from, UM, But a
- 28:21lot of times it's just it's people that want to learn and grow and they're
- 28:25looking for something free, cheap, easy that they can that they can learn
- 28:30from, because that's that's how we learn now. And so I feel like
- 28:33anything that's behind a paywall now is going to lose relevancy over time. And
- 28:40UM, I wish I wish them the best, and I don't know what's
- 28:45next. And I think that's really where where people are very curious, what
- 28:48is the next popular framework that that we're going to be leveraging, because because
- 28:53we've evolved cool amazing stuff. Final question for the event, what do you
- 29:00think of the key technologies and capabilities for really expanding the effectiveness of service management
- 29:07going forward? But we haven't necessarily touched upon in the buzzword conversation Yes,
- 29:12I love this question so much, UM, specifically because it isn't just about
- 29:18tech, it's about capabilities UM. And one of the one of the I
- 29:25think the primary concepts that are that are key foundational to improving employee experience and
- 29:32delivering great modern service management is infinite curiosity, always be learning. Having that
- 29:38lifelong learning mindset is key when when a new technology comes out, look at
- 29:44it, look at it skeptically, optimistically, and everything in between. Touch
- 29:49it, you know, get a hold of it. UM. Right now,
- 29:53I'm I've got Ubuntu running on my computer because I've just not used Linux
- 29:59in a long time and I need to kind of remember what the end user
- 30:03computing experience is like on that thing, and it's really changed since the last
- 30:07time I used it, So that's sort of foundational. I also feel like
- 30:11there is a major shift in leadership where no longer can we manage my numbers.
- 30:19It is about leading the human experience. It's about leading the humans to
- 30:25be the best at who they are, so that capability can be expanded with
- 30:32concepts like cognitive coaching, you know, learning empathy. No longer can we
- 30:40get leaders in managers in it roles that are just brought there by merit of
- 30:47technical capabilities, you really need to raise up the leaders that understand people and
- 30:53are can be selfless and empathetic with the people that are doing the actual work.
- 30:57So those are the huge parts of capabilities, the human capabilities. And
- 31:03then as far as technology goes, I really feel like it's letting the people
- 31:08that are doing the work selecting the products. I don't think that it's necessarily
- 31:15about what technologies you pick. It's about making sure that what you pick works
- 31:19for the people that are doing the actual work, and they will. They'll
- 31:25be your best BS meters, They'll they'll be the people that say, Okay,
- 31:29this is too complex, this doesn't make sense. I'm not going to
- 31:33have the freedom and autonomy to deliver a great customer experience to our customers the
- 31:37people that we serve. So selecting those tools is probably another super important capability.
- 31:47SUPERB note to end on SUPERB conversation altogether being an absolute pleasure having you
- 31:52on the show. May I wonder if you could just tell everyone where they
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