Single point of contact
It is very important that the service desk is the single point of contact for IT users within an organisation. Without a single point of contact, there is no control and ownership throughout the management of incidents, service requests and queries.
It is the service desk which owns incidents throughout their lifecycle. It does not matter who is working on the incident, the ownership remains with the service desk. The service desk will receive and log incidents or service request details. They will undertake first-line investigation and diagnosis with escalation if
incidents or service requests are not resolved.
The existence of the single point of contact can be reinforced by advertising the sole service desk number or email address as widely as possible.