Category Archives: Technology Trends

Why Knowledge Management is Important to the Success of your Service Desk

By Dick Stark Last Thursday I hosted a joint webinar with RightAnswers.  The topic: “Knowledge is Power, IT Knowledge Management for your BMC Service Desk.”  Surprisingly, Knowledge Management (KM) gets less than expected mindshare with most of the service desks … Continue reading

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Unreasonable Customer Service

By Dick Stark “I believe that the level of priority and the amount of passion and emphasis that must be put towards the customer experience must be, in a word, unreasonable.  It must be excessive.  It must go beyond the … Continue reading

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To Sell is Human

By Dick Stark I finished Daniel Pink’s new book, To Sell is Hunan, right before our annual sales kick-off, as I was eager to report on any new information and to help jump start our sales team for 2013.  I’ve … Continue reading

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Service Catalogs and Customer Care

By Dick Stark On Thursday we hosted a BMC FootPrints/Service Core Webinar for approximately 100 SDE, Remedy, FootPrints, and Track-It customers and prospects.  I pointed out the three key building blocks of any successful ITSM system: a finely tuned CMDB, Analytics … Continue reading

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BMC FootPrints AssetCore: Best Value of any BMC Offering?

By Dick Stark Last Friday, RightStar a RightStar senior FootPrints consultant led an internal discussion and demonstration of BMC’s FootPrints Asset Management offering, AssetCore.  RightStar has installed AssetCore for many customers, including Memphis City Public Schools (MCPS), BMC’s largest FootPrints/AssetCore … Continue reading

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Why I’m Bullish on Remedyforce

By Dick Stark On Tuesday, BMC held a webinar for its sales team and partners to announce that BMC had created a new division, headed by Matt Dircks, to focus solely on Remedyforce.  This is good news for RightStar as … Continue reading

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RightStar’s Social Network Map

By Dick Stark Who is RightStar, anyway? The below Social Network Map tells the story.  Thanks to the survey we all completed for the American University study conducted several months ago, RightStar is on the map, at least the social … Continue reading

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The Demise of Legacy Software Companies

By Dick Stark Thanks to the boom in SaaS computing, Venture Capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia recently discussed the coming demise of legacy software companies.  “The business model, thanks to Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, is now a weapon for all of … Continue reading

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Service Catalog: the Cornerstone of IT

By Dick Stark On Wednesday more than 100 people attended RightStar’s “What’s New in BMC Remedy ITSM 8.0,” webinar led by Solutions Consultant, Roger East.  Just like the BMC service request module is now the cornerstone of Remedy 8.0, so … Continue reading

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BSM’s Value Proposition

By Dick Stark RightStar’s mission is to be our client’s expert advisor in the Business Service Management (BSM) space.  Additionally, it’s to return value back to our clients in terms of the investment they make in BSM products and services.  … Continue reading

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