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FEBRUARY 2012
Dispatches from Afar:
Building & Managing a Distributed Desktop Support Team
Friday, February 17th - 11:30am-1:30pm
Location: LearniT!, San Francisco
33 New Montgomery, Suite 300
Joint meeting with our Silicon Valley Chapter
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In companies with offices in multiple geographic locations, it's the nature of desktop support to work in and manage teams that are widely scattered. Ten years ago, companies had the budget and resources to bring people together for training and team building, but in the current climate of reduced staff levels and nonexistent travel budgets, how do you build and maintain an effective distributed desktop support team?
Attendees will learn about:
• The essential technical and nontechnical elements for building a cohesive distributed desktop support team;
• Ways of effectively leveraging communication technologies to strengthen a distributed desktop support team;
• Characteristics to look for when staffing a distributed desktop support team;
• The five essentials of a distributed desktop support team; and
• Tips to follow and pitfalls to avoid when building a distributed desktop support team.
About our Speaker:
Michael Fisher has been providing IT support for twenty-five years, building widely distributed IT support teams in the publishing, media, and healthcare fields. He currently supervises desktop support for Molina Healthcare, overseeing a team of thirty-four technicians spread across nineteen locations in fourteen states.
Michael is a certified HDI Support Center Manager and is the president of the HDI Orange County local chapter in California.
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March 2012
NEW HDI TRAINING COURSE
Power of Metrics for Optimal ITSM Performance
Instructor: Malcolm Fry
Tuesday, March 20th, 8am - 3pm
Joint meeting with our Silicon Valley Chapter in Mountain View
Fenwick & West
801 California St.
Mountain View, CA 94041
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Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) is focused on defining and managing processes to optimize performance. ITSM metrics provide a vast amount of data in the form of measurements. That data must be translated into information that can be used to monitor and manage the business. Learning how to leverage this information produces knowledge used to produce service improvements and sustained performance. In this course, we will take an in-depth look at the ITIL 2011 Edition metrics for incident, problem, change, and service desk management.

Malcolm Fry will present a day long workshop taking an in-depth look at the ITIL 2011 Edition metrics for incident, problem, change, and service desk management. A copy of the complete course description and outline is available online at www.ThinkHDI.com/PowerOfMetrics.
This workshop, presented by the renowned Malcolm Fry, is a fun, informative, and productive learning experience about metrics based on ITIL 2011. The workshop contains a series of breakout opportunities that allow for networking and collaborative learning. Course participants will receive and learn how to use a spreadsheet enabling them to report on metrics for the service desk.
Details:
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Workshop runs from 8am to 3pm
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Morning & afternoon refreshment breaks provided
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Courseware and the "Good Day, Bad Day" Microsoft Excel workbook (a $99 value) will be provided
Cost:
Thanks to our sponsors, this course (a $695 value) is available free for this event.
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