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As an owner or managing director, you often assume ops responsibilities by default. But that’s a short-term solution. One that inevitably leads to problems and burnout as the business grows. And being overwhelmed often leads to rushing your first ops hire. Then, instead of being able to fix problems, your new team member gets stuck firefighting. Hire strategically instead, with our seven-step process.

The office perimeter is gone. Work now happens on laptops in living rooms, phones on home Wi-Fi, USB drives passed between desks, and screens left unlocked in co-working spaces. None of that sits behind the firewall your IT team spent years building. Most security budgets still protect the network far better than they protect the device at the edge of it, and that gap is where endpoint security risks quietly build up.

ServiceNow AI is no longer just about Virtual Agent. Today, its AI stack includes Virtual Agent, Now Assist, AI Agents, AI Agent Studio, and Otto—covering everything from conversational self-service to autonomous task execution. For IT and HR leaders, the real question is not whether ServiceNow can use AI.

In July 2026, our community published 275 new templates to Miroverse. The submissions ranged from HR and strategy canvases to themed team retrospectives and discovery toolkits. Creators continue to collaborate with AI on the canvas to speed up planning and facilitation. Below, you’ll find the top templates and creators from July 2026, plus an AI workflow spotlight. For even more inspiration, explore our growing AI-Accelerated template collection.

Choosing IT help desk software is really a decision about how fast your employees get unblocked when something breaks. A slow, disorganized ticketing process means lost laptops sit unrepaired, password resets pile up in a shared inbox, and new hires wait days for basic access. IT help desk software fixes that by turning scattered requests into a tracked, measurable workflow.

Luware won Silver in the category Best Customer Service at the US Customer Experience Awards 2026, recognizing an approach we call “people over KPIs”. The idea is simple: most customer service teams are measured on speed and volume, but the outcomes customers actually value, a lasting fix and a relationship they trust, come from removing the pressure, not adding to it. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Idle time tracking software records periods of computer inactivity, helping managers identify workflow gaps, understand time usage, and improve productivity without unfairly judging employees.

HR teams are expected to improve employee experience, support managers, develop talent, and solve people problems that genuinely require human judgment. Yet a large part of the working day can still disappear into answering PTO questions, checking payroll details, coordinating onboarding, finding policies, following up on approvals, and responding to the same employee requests again and again.

The latest release of OneDesk is now live! This release brings some big new features as well as some frequently requested enhancements.

Agentic AI for business uses AI agents to analyze workforce data, identify productivity trends, automate insights, and help managers make faster, data-driven decisions.