Self help is cost-effective and aims to keep users active in their roles. Statistics can be gathered on the most frequently asked questions or most visited pages. This reduces the risk that training needs or technology gaps are not identified even though there has not been a logged service desk call.
Good communication is crucial for service operation. There needs to be active communication between IT teams and departments and with business areas and users. Members of staff undertaking service operation processes should be aware of the requirement to communicate on a regular basis with members of staff conducting other processes.
One should remember, however, that effective communication must have an
understood purpose and, ideally, a specified audience. Too much communication without specific purpose or desired outcome can and usually will be counterproductive. Information overload tends to dull people’s attention to new information, and this can be just as bad as not communicating.