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To ensure high vendor performance, IT departments must practice vendor management by recording and acting on vendor issues. Track issues to resolution and understand where improvement is needed.

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Frequent communication with stakeholders not only demonstrates IT's value, but also helps control demand, justify expenditure, and secure staff for future projects. Send regular status reports to your stakeholders to keep them informed about...

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Help desk triage determines priority levels for problems reported by end users. Employ a triage policy to help the IT department set end-user expectations and effectively manage scarce resources.

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The decision has been made to make changes to an application. Now these changes must be executed and rolled out to the user base in a controlled way that maximizes the change's success and minimizes disruption to the business. This process is...

Help desks are the field hospitals of the IT world. When problems come pouring in, make sure help desk staff can assess what care they require with clear and efficient triage criteria. A help desk triage policy is a simple and effective way to...

Request logging is a critical component of quality help desk service. Smaller help desk teams can minimize the time and financial impact by implementing a low-cost tool with self-serve ticket entry.

Developing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is only half the battle. Without performance measurements, SLAs are ineffective. Know what to measure, how to measure it, and when to change it.

Unclear business expectations of IT and the services IT delivers often lead to misunderstandings and hard feelings. Internal Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are meant to mitigate these miscommunications while simultaneously improving teamwork,...

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The Help Desk Technician's role is to ensure proper computer operation so that end users can accomplish business tasks. This includes receiving, prioritizing, documenting, and actively resolving end user help requests. Problem resolution may...

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The Help Desk Manager's role is to oversee the entire Help Desk staff and ensure that end users are receiving the appropriate assistance. This includes the responsibility of managing all procedures related to the identification, prioritization,...

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The Infrastructure Manager's role is to plan, organize, and manage staff and overall operations to ensure the stable operation of the organization's IT infrastructure. This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key...

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The worst nightmare of any project manager is scope creep. Resolve scope creep and other issues at the outset with a project charter document.