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Processor Article, “Help Your Help Desk”

A “Techs & Trends” article from the June 5, 2009 issue:

Your IT staff has been cut in half. You’re in the process of upgrading your server configuration to leverage virtualization and data encryption. You’re comparing proposals from different email management service vendors. And, in the middle of all this action, you get a phone call from someone in payroll who is in a panic because he’s unable to enter his password and can’t access his accounting software. You spend five minutes calming the guy down and another five minutes diagnosing his machine remotely.

Granted, the aforementioned scenario is extreme, but your help desk should be able to help you as much as it purports to help your employees. Ideally, your payroll employee could have found information about his password problem in an easy-to-reference knowledge base and accessed a process that would have walked him through the steps to automatically reset his password.

So, what can you do to improve your help desk efficiencies, particularly in this economic climate? Here are a few tips to get you started.

Complete Article: Help Your Help Desk: Tips For Improving Help Desk Efficiency

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