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Discussion Board
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:
You recently have been hired as the company's new IT Director. One of the main projects that you have been tasked with is to establish an IT Help Desk to support the company's operations. This function does not currently exist, so you will start from the beginning and build it from the ground up.
To begin, you have been asked to identify the anticipated requirements and problems that typical users within your company will face and that the newly created Help Desk will need to address. Take this opportunity to describe the high-level business model of your company and the typical problems (at least 5) faced by users. In addition, describe the anticipated characteristics of the users who will utilize the Help Desk.
Unit 1 - Individual Project
1-2 pages of material in the section titled "Roles and Responsibilities," and the report template
Your company wishes to ensure that the new help desk will be able to handle requests and problems from users at any time of the day; this will play an important part in the structure of the help desk.
You also have the understanding that the executive management is keen to be able to support users who are not located at the central office, and as they grow the company, the help desk should be able to support users in remote locations.
Take this opportunity to describe to management a couple of important help desk organizational structures. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized versus decentralized environment. In addition, describe these various staffing structures:
Pool
Dispatch
Tiered
Specialized
Method
Finally, make and offer supporting material for your recommendation about how the help desk you plan to establish will be structured. Be sure to include a recommendation about being centralized or decentralized, and then explain how the staffing structure would be setup.
This first assignment will allow you to establish the Key Assignment Template that will be used throughout the class for all Individual Project submissions and to explore the framework securing an organization's data.
Create the template to be used for the submission of all Individual Project assignments.
The template document should follow this format:
IT Support Systems Project Document Shell
Use Microsoft Word
Title Page
Course number and name
Project name
Student name
Date
Table of Contents
Auto-generated TOC
Separate page
Maximum of 3 levels deep
Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
Section headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content, except for sections listed under "New Content" below).
Roles and Responsibilities
Tools and Technologies
IT Systems Support
Processes and Problem Resolution
Performance Management
Each week, you will add to this document and submit for grading as a preview. Each section will contain the following:
Roles and Responsibilities (Week 1 IP)
Centralized versus decentralized
Staffing structures
Your recommendation about the structure