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RE: New Year, New HDIConnect!

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Much better than it was! JPC Group 25 Service Management Experts to Watch in 2018 20 Best Service Management People to Follow on Twitter Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management 20 of the Best ITSM Thought Leaders of 2018 Ron Muns Lifetime Achievement Award IT Industry Legends Cherwell Software HDI Hall of Fame Distinguished Professional in Service Management DP SM TM ITIL Expert & Accredited Trainer, ISO/IEC 20000 Consultant KCS v6 Certified Trainer & Coach HDI Faculty [More]

RE: Rightsizing the Help Desk

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First and foremost Dennis, I offer you my sympathy and understanding. I can tell you that I feel your pain, but at a smaller scale. Second, I would think that your call times are changing due to your change of staff. Even with working in a past call center, knowing the system and your callers makes a huge difference. I have a contractor working with me now and I am noticing the difference in calls volumes as well. This might just take time unfortunately. Have you replaced the individuals you [More]

RE: Rightsizing the Help Desk

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I've found you can get some useful ballparks from these freely provided staffing calculators: http://calculator.metricnet.com/Budget_Calculator.htm Excel version: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metricnet-prod/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Downloadable-Budget-Calculator_FINAL-2-31.xlsx As far as pitching for more FTEs from the business, I can only offer a wish of luck. We (and other members of our local HDI chapter) have tried a multitude of approaches to FTE asks, and they all routinely fail (or [More]

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