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November 16-20, 2025
Disney's Coronado Springs ResortOrlando, FL

2024 Schedule

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 - Get your pass now!

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