Reactive vs. Proactive vs. Predictive: 3 Stages of Help Desks
IT Service Management (ITSM) help desks can implement and deliver services in one of three ways: reactive, proactive, or predictive.
In many respects, these three levels represent different stages of the ITSM maturity model. Measuring ITSM maturity is a way of assessing "how good your organization or system is at self-improvement." If you're still delivering reactive IT services, then that suggests a lower level of maturity, which results in higher staff turnover, higher costs, and lower key performance indicators (KPIs), customer satisfaction, and service level agreement (SLA) scores.