DI Support Center Director

Course details

Gaining senior management support and effectively communicating the pivotal role of the support center is crucial to any support operation's success. For this reason, the support center director must serve as a support leader and strategically align the support center to the organization.

In this course for support center directors, you will learn to develop and execute strategic plans that will take your organization to the next level.

You will discover how to realize greater return on investment, develop and maintain formal procedures for increased productivity and consistency, and manage customer perceptions.

This course is designed to assist you in preparing for the HDI Support Center Director (HDI-SCD) certification exam. Instructors reinforce core concepts of the certification standard and provide skills-building opportunities

Objectives:

• Assessment strategies for the support center
• How to quantify your support center's value and maximize return on investment 
• Twelve-step process and decision matrix for selecting technologies and vendors 
• The requirements of an effective service catalog
• How to align support strategies with business goals and objectives 
• Knowledge management processes that can save you time and money
• Strategies for workforce management, coaching, team building, and succession planning
• How to justify a service improvement project with a business case
• Valuable reporting tools: balanced scorecard, morning report, and executive brief
• Selecting the right leading and lagging indicators

Content:

• Executive Leadership 
• Business Planning and Strategy 
• Support Center Processes
• Tools and Technology 
• Metrics and Quality Assurance 
• People Management 
• Organizational Development 
• Marketing the Support Center
• Creating a Business Case