IT Problem Management (Repost)

A text presenting specific improvements that can be made to Information Technology organizations in order to make them more efficient and to help them resolve problems quickly and effectively. Includes coverage of staffing and other human issues, better ways to create service level agreements, and much more. DLC: Electronic data processing–Management.

No matter how professional your IT organization, if you can't resolve problems quickly and effectively, you'll lose your stakeholders' confidence—and fail. Nowadays, help desk s aren't enough: companies want true service centers capable of delivering complex, strategic solutions. IT Problem Management is the first single source for building world-class problem management processes. Drawing upon his extensive consulting e xperience, Gary Walker presents specific improvements you can make to achieve breakthrough results in any help desk or service center—in-house or out-sourced. Coverage includes:

* Problem identification, customer validation, problem lo gging, service delivery, knowledge capture and sharing, and management oversight
* The Immediate Response Model: accounting for problem variability, complexity, and volume
* Detailed metrics for measuring your responsiveness
* Bett er ways to create and use service level agreements
* State-of-the-art tools for customer interaction, service delivery, and proactive monitoring
* New Internet and knowledge base systems: empowering users to solve their own problems
* The human side: staffing, retention, and motivation