Administrative Post

Submitted by rparker on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 20:49

Management Seminars

A skills development strategy that you may wish to consider is the "One Day Module".  This approach to training is especially suited to high performance teams with demanding schedules.

What is ¨Decision Support¨?

Submitted by rparker on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 20:45

¨Accurately Visualize The Current State Of Your Operation.¨

Decision Support is that business function specifically charged with the question, ´What do we know about our operation, and how do we know it?" The deliverable is Metrics and Measures. In this view, financial data is a specific instance in this broader category.

Category, Type & Item

Submitted by rparker on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 20:20

Most people have called a support, or ´Help Desk´ and they know that the better ones make a record of each customer contact in a ticketing system.

Tickets are more than automated  ´called while you were out´ systems. On top of reliable ticketing software is the ticketing ´design´. Service work by nature has many intangible qualities. A good ticketing design is what makes the efforts of a service operation visible, measurable and measurable.

An IT organization can purchase ticketing software on the basis of reliability, scalability, robustness, support and price. The ticket design, however needs to be created in coordination with the operational design for the service business, and modified when the business changes.

The heart of the ticket design is often called ´CTI´ - category, type and item classification. Tickets are classified for many reasons, including: accountability, service assignment and ticket routing, and metrics.

Back To Baselines

Submitted by rparker on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 02:04

Knowledge can be organized, condensed, and made "user friendly" by a number of techniques. Information that CANNOT BE READILY ACCESSED when and where we need it WILL NOT HELP our decision-making!

A fantastic technique, particularly in the world of complex, technology-based business processes, is the organization of information as "baseline & change".

Countless Examples

Procedure or Process?

Submitted by rparker on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 01:41

When I talk to clients about business processes and the importance of process knowledge, they often confuse 'process' with 'procedure'. The mistake is understandable. Both are "intentional methods" of doing business, and procedures are a far more common and familiar territory than process.

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