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Red Wall & Stairs

 21 Operational Issues 

Remove them all

  • ​Siloed workload - personal ticket queues are inefficient and vulnerable.
     

  • Collaboration and teamwork - minimal or severely lacking.
     

  • Ticket-specific expectations management - weak or non-existent.
     

  • First Contact Resolution - not maximised.
     

  • Delay and inertia - support requiring successive activities does not flow.
     

  • Activity prioritisation - the question of "what next?"
     

  • Backlog - unmanaged / uncontrolled / ticket abandonment.
     

  • Premature ticket closure & service failure.
     

  • "Operational Problems" - not identified and removed, so reoccur.
     

  • Weak manageability due to rudimentary metrics.
     

  • Recognition and praise of work well done - lacks requisite information.
     

  • Employee reviews - unfocused, serving little purpose.
     

  • IT inductee activity quality management - adherence to procedures and IT security principles is not checked.
     

  • Ticket SLA's are measured so inaccurately that they are statistically invalid.
     

  • Weak ticket SLA performance.
     

  • Customer updates - sometimes not seen or quickly responded to.
     

  • Missed appointments and missed appointment requests.
     

  • Inadequate journaling - support activity (ticket progression) is not always logged, harming knowledge management and potential for beneficial AI.
     

  • Ticket assignment mistakes - not managed.
     

  • IT lacks accountability for the service it provides.
     

  • IT lacks accountability for the value it delivers.

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