Stephen D Buyze

“Empowering Managed Service Providers to Increase Profit”

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IT Service Managers, IT Techs, Issues

IT Service Support Issue with Issues and Sub-Issues?

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SBuyze / December 13, 2018

Tracking Issues and Sub-Issues does not directly help the remediation process. In fact, if you are not really using the data, it slows the Technician down and just becomes one more point of conflict between management and those tasked with meeting the Customer’s needs.  It is quite amazing how many conversations (More than these four, cited in the article) have surfaced over the last two months.  The conversations have …

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IT Service Managers, IT MSP, Scheduling

An IT Managed Service Provider’s Guide to Scheduling Objectives and SLA’s

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SBuyze / December 7, 2018

Service Level Agreements and Scheduling Objectives, the third fundamental area of our series on the 9 essential areas of IT Service Support and Delivery, is the focus of this article.   As previously mentioned, ITIL divides Priorities into two work groups: Incidents and Service Requests. SLA’s are to Incidents what Scheduling Objectives are to Service Requests.   The #1 Question Every IT MSP Should Ask   When it comes to scheduling …

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IT Service Managers, Triage Queue, Customer Service, IT Techs

IT Managed Service Provider: Customer Service or Triage; Which Model is Best for Us?

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SBuyze / November 30, 2018

Welcome back! This week, we’re continuing to work through our series on the 9 fundamental areas of IT Service Support and Delivery.     This is the second article of the third fundamental area – Service Level Agreements and Scheduling Objectives. In the last article, we explained how ITIL divides Priorities into two work groups: Incidents and Service Requests.     IT Service Managers: Customer Service or Triage Queues?    Customer Service or Triage Queues …

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IT Service Managers, IT Techs

IT Support Manager’s reality: Turkey vs. Pager

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SBuyze / November 23, 2018

Here in the States, it’s that time of year again. We’re celebrating Thanksgiving! So we’ve decided to take a break from the 9 Fundamentals of IT Service Delivery series to talk about, well, Giving Thanks.     To the IT Techs On Call Right Now  First, I would like to apologize to the Techs who are on call over the holiday. The response to the article, IT Service Managers Biggest Pain – Scheduling On Call made …

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IT Service Managers, Service Level Agreements, Scheduling

What Every IT Support Manager Must Know About SLA’s & Scheduling Objectives 

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SBuyze / November 16, 2018

Let’s kick off this article with a reminder that ITIL divides Priorities into two work groups:  Incidents   Service Requests  We’ll follow this separation by saying that SLA’s are to Incidents what Scheduling Objectives are to Service Requests.    If you think about it, SLA’s measure response, resolution planning, and remediation -which are applicable measurements to Incidents, but not applicable to Service Requests. However, …

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IT Service Managers, IT Service Agreements

IT Managed Service Agreements: What’s Included? 

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SBuyze / November 9, 2018

There have been several times when I have run into a disconnect between what Sales is selling and what IT Support is supporting. I’m wondering if you can relate to this?  For example, when joining Systems Engineering, they had 7 managed service offerings. There was some confusion between what was in the Signed Agreements and the Service Support.   Confusion Surrounding the Network …

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IT Service Managers, Priorities

Prioritizing the Priority of Priorities for the IT Service Manager 

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SBuyze / October 26, 2018

Typically, when someone announces that a Critical Ticket has been created, everyone is on high alert until someone has engaged, is working through the remediation process, and it’s clear that the Customer is going to be OK.   What about when something has been sold and the request is to be scheduled? Well, outside of the Customer, Account Manager, and the person …

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Resource Utilization, IT Service Managers

How Resource Utilization can Help You Find Lost Profit 

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SBuyze / October 5, 2018

                      Let’s jump right into the heart of the value in a Resource Utilization report. Hopefully by now, we have all of the Techs turning their time in on time, we have coached them as to what is acceptable Internal time, and we are proactively managing Company time. Way to go!  Uncovering Lost Profits at Your IT …

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