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Join the session with four presenters from top universities sharing their experiences in help desk operations. Learn about handling incidents, communication challenges, and workflow solutions. Explore various techniques to enhance help desk efficiency and user satisfaction.
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Help Desk Problem Tracking Work Flow – Challenges and Solutions There are four presenters on this session, each having up to 8 minutes to describe their operations and the rest of the time for questions, answers, and brainstorming.
Panel Members: Ann Alvord Support/Help Desk St. John's University Tami Aune Residential/Helpline Coordinator Gustavus Adolphus College Mike Johnson Help Desk Manager Bethel University Jason Moran Help Desk Coordinator Concordia University - St. Paul
Bethel University Mike Johnson Help Desk Manger
Background • Service 6,000 faculty/staff/students • Total University-owned workstations 1,300 • Incidents for 2004 10,730 • Incidents for 2003 6,718
Contact • At Bethel, our requests come through following locations. Phone 70% Walk-up 15% E-mail 10% Website 5%
Problems Handling • We have split our support helpdesk into 2 functions: employee and student support. • The Employee Help Desk • 3 full time staff members • 2 student managers • 11 student worker • The Student Help Desk • 2 fulltime staff managers • 5 student mangers • 35 student worker
Problems Handling • Help Desk answers the question • Help Desk creates an incident • The incident is then audited and sent to the appropriate team for solution or more in-depth troubleshooting.
When escalating an incident, it is sent to one of the following teams on the right: The troubleshooting varies within the team. The problem is then resolved or re-evaluated and returned to the help desk for more details. Server ERP Network PC Tech Computer Store Trainer Faculty Consultant Telecommunications Escalation
Challenges / Solutions: • Provide support for students and employees • Split support help desk functions for students and employees
Challenges / Solutions: • It has been a challenge to communication with techs while out of office on a job • Setup a campus 2 way radio network for ITS
Challenges / Solutions: • The to-do list had a lot of white noise • Added automation to the list removing hold waiting call back
Challenges / Solutions: • Decrease the amount of incident ping-pong • No solution as of yet
Challenges / Solutions: • Linearly workflow in the incident database • No solution as of yet
Contacts Info Ann Alvord aalvord@csbsju.edu Support/Help Desk St. John's University Tami Aune tami@gustavus.edu Residential/Helpline Coordinator Gustavus Adolphus College Mike Johnson md-johnson@bethel.edu Help Desk Manager Bethel University Jason Moran moran@csp.edu Help Desk Coordinator Concordia University - St. Paul