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Using Helpdesk Statistics to Improve Law Firm User Support

By Lance Waagner
November 28, 2011

A common business expression states, “you can only manage what you measure,” and nowhere is that more applicable than with legal helpdesk support. Measuring service levels, ticket volumes, conversion staffing levels, and user satisfaction are all important aspects of running a successful helpdesk, but only of true value if compared to other metrics, and more importantly, acted upon.

The Second Edition Guru's Guide for Legal Service Desk Support (www.bit.ly/theguruguide) provides such helpdesk (also called the service desk) bench- mark data and is based on 1.2 million user tickets collected and analyzed by Intelliteach from January 2010 through June 2011 across a variety of law firm sizes, locations and hardware/software configurations.

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