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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162759203321

Autore

Czegel Barbara <1953->

Titolo

Help desk practitioner's handbook / / Barbara Czegel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-119-17778-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

004.0688

Soggetti

Computer industry - Customer services - Management

Electronic office machine industry - Customer services - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Note""; ""SECTION ONE: Expectations of the Business""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Roles""; ""In This Chapter""; ""Profitability Scale of a Company""; ""Roles You Play on the Help Desk""; ""Skills You Need on the Help Desk""; ""Checklist""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Focusing on the Business""; ""In This Chapter""; ""What Is Focus?""; ""Focus and Customers""; ""Focus and Senior Management""; ""Focus and Other IT Groups""; ""Focus, Success, and You""; ""Checklist""

""SECTION TWO: Supporting the Help Desk Structure""""CHAPTER THREE: Structure""; ""In This Chapter""; ""Levels in a Help Desk Structure""; ""Relationships between Support Levels""; ""Making Distributed Help Desks Work""; ""Consolidating Help Desks""; ""Your Career""; ""Checklist""; ""SECTION THREE: Managing Problems""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: When Problems Become Dangerous""; ""In This Chapter""; ""The Out-of-Control Problem Cycle""; ""Keeping or Regaining Control""; ""Avoiding Common Support Mistakes""; ""Focus, Structure, and Tools""; ""Priorities and Procedures""

""A Cycle of Evaluation and Improvement""""Checklist""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Listening to Resolve and Prevent Problems""; ""In This Chapter""; ""The Communication Process in Problem Solving""; ""What Is Listening?""; ""Negative Filters""; ""The Challenges of Listening in a Help Desk Environment""; ""Positive Listening Habits""; ""Checklist""; ""CHAPTER SIX: Getting and Giving Information""; ""In This Chapter""; ""The Cycle of



Information Exchange""; ""Delivering Your Message""; ""Questioning""; ""The Impact of Effective Information Exchange""; ""Checklist""

""CHAPTER SEVEN: Proactive Problem Control""""In This Chapter""; ""Understanding Customer Needs""; ""Early Warning Systems""; ""Dandelions and Layered Strategies for Problem Control""; ""Maintaining an Improvement Cycle""; ""Checklist""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: Using Tools""; ""In This Chapter""; ""An Overview of Tools""; ""Getting the Most out of the Internet""; ""Getting the Most out of Your Help Desk Management System""; ""Getting the Most out of Knowledge Bases""; ""Communication Made Easy""; ""Making Customers Self-Sufficient""; ""Checklist""

""SECTION FOUR: Understanding the Business of Help Desks""""CHAPTER NINE: Everything You Need to Know about Performance""; ""In This Chapter""; ""Components of Performance""; ""A Moving Picture""; ""Different Perspectives""; ""Why Is Everyone So Interested in ROI?""; ""Measuring How Effectively You Handle Calls""; ""How Proactive Are You?""; ""A Summary""; ""Checklist""; ""CHAPTER TEN: Cost Justification Made Easy""; ""In This Chapter""; ""Come Back Here!""; ""Why Do You Need a Cost Justification?""; ""The Three Secrets""; ""The Formula""; ""A Word about the Examples""

""Example A: Justifying Training""