Documents Contributed by ECAR, Help Desk, and Presentations/Speeches

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR Symposium, December 5-7, 2007, in Boca Raton, Florida. The 2007 ECAR help desk study, Service on the Front Line: The IT Help Desk in Higher Education, identified a number of practices as being associated with help desk success, viewed in terms of overall service quality, positive impacts on various service areas, and reliable meeting of help desk goals. This presentation explores those associations in search of landmarks the help desk can use in navigating toward excellence.

How to Cite This Work: Sheehan, Mark C. "The Upward Trail: Success Factors in Help Desk Management." Presentation at the ECAR Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, December 5-7, 2007, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. This session presents preliminary findings from the ECAR survey on prevailing IT help desk practices in the U.S. and Canada. Using standard assessments of help desk practice from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and others, principal investigator Mark Sheehan is developing a robust view of the state of the practice of service delivery, service support, and other IT help desk and IT practices.