Pre-2: Support Center Manager

Sunday, October 3 - Tuesday, October 5
Price: $1,895 | Member Price: $1,795

The support center’s strategy drives everything the support center does: service delivery, infrastructure implementation, operational processes, workforce management, and support center marketing. Learn how to satisfy operational demands and build a support center that aligns with the organization, adds value to the business, and delivers on its commitments.

What You Will Learn


  • Characteristics of an effective support center manager
  • How to create service level agreements, operational level agreements, and standard operating procedures in support of a service catalog
  • Steps to cost-benefit analysis, total cost of ownership, and calculating return on investment
  • The relationships between IT service management processes
  • The difference between and the importance of strategic, tactical, and operational planning
  • Benefits and challenges of self-service technologies
  • Processes for building and managing effective security policies
  • Staffing models
  • The value of outsourcing
  • Tactics for screening, hiring, training, and managing high performance teams
  • The metrics and key performance indicators essential to your performance reporting


Who Should Attend


  • Experienced IT service and technical support professionals


Three-Day Course Includes

Instruction, online certification exam, breakfast, and breaks

Presented By


Katherine Lord

Katherine Lord is an ITIL V3.0 expert, seasoned ITSML practitioner with significant ITSM consulting expertise focused on benchmarking, gap assessments, road map development and implementation for Service Management.