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Designed to meet the unique needs of service management and technical support leaders, Service Management World will explore the strategic and tactical elements of managing and deploying an optimal service management strategy.

Pre-02: Support Center Manager

Doug Tedder  (Principal Consultant, Tedder Consulting LLC)

Location: St. Croix 2

Date: Sunday, November 17

Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Pass Type: Pre-Conference Training/Certification Course + Standard Conference Pass, Pre-Conference Training/Certification Course Pass

Session Type: Training

Vault Recording: TBD

A support center's strategy drives everything it does: service delivery, infrastructure implementation, operational processes, workforce management, and support center marketing. Learn how to satisfy operational demands and build a support center that aligns with the organization, adds value to the business, and delivers on its commitments.

What You Will Learn

  • The characteristics of an effective support center manager
  • How to create service level agreements (SLAs), operational level agreements (OLAs), and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support the service catalog
  • Steps to performing cost-benefit analysis, determining total cost of ownership, and calculating return on investment
  • The relationships between IT service management processes
  • The difference between and the importance of strategic, tactical, and operational planning
  • The benefits and challenges of self-service technologies
  • Processes for building and managing effective security policies
  • Staffing models
  • The value of outsourcing
  • Tactics for screening, hiring, training, and managing high-performance teams
  • The metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) essential to performance reporting