Práce se zabývá vytvořením simulačního modelu helpdesku v retailové společnosti. Obsahuje jak teoretický úvod z oblasti podpory IT, ale i nonIT tak také vlastní model s možnostmi optimalizace.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to create a methodology for rapid assessment of Service Desk function. The thesis comprises three logical units. The introductory part describes a theoretical framework of methodologies used for general functions of IT services. As a part of this section, the case study of delivery of IT services in company Pražská energetika a.s. follows. In the second part, the diploma thesis describes a methodology based on introductory analysis for evaluation of Service Desk in certain aspects of its operation including related issues of lifecycle of providing IT services. The final part of the thesis provides a case study which is based on application of the proposed methodology on several selected companies.

I decided to write this master thesis in relation with my work experience at CSC within the service desk. Working at the service desk is a very complete mission that has to be well understood from analysts in order to reach high performance and thus satisfy users. Because it is the goal of CSC, satisfying customers, I decided to focus on this principle and with the results of my research and work experiences I would like to bring in this thesis some findings and recommendations I came up with in order to optimize the service desk quality and to improve the customer satisfaction. In the first chapter, I will mainly describe the work of an analyst at the service desk, and I will define the incident management process. It will help understanding how a service desk works. The incident management process is monitored by many metrics. Some of these metrics are documented and some of them are not and their impacts are different. We will see on what we should focus our efforts. We will see in the second chapter the impacts of these metrics on performance. Measuring the performance of the service desk is important in order to be aware of what should be improved to reach the highest standard of services provided. We will see in the end of this chapter that the most important performance indicator is the customer satisfaction. From this fact, I will bring some findings from seven months of experience within the service desk in order to improve the quality of the services and the customer satisfactions. I will focus on what can be implemented from the service desk analysts not from the management. I will also focus on the effects of the steps already taken to improve customer satisfaction.

The goal of my master's theses was to analyze the requirements of the ITIL framework for a service desk implementation, identify specifics of SME companies and to try to scale down the ITIL implementation of a service desk to the size applicable to SME. In my practical part I'd like devise a functional model of the ITIL compliant service desk featuring Incident, Request, Change, and Problem Management processes based on the Atlassian Jira sotware. After completing the theasis I will answer a question - if it is possible to use ITIL in the SME segment.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The management of problems occurred in environments that make use of Information Technology (IT), coupled with the need for a rapid response support teams, makes organizations require systems to manage these incidents. The Service Desk presents itself as a good solution to centralize these records. Concepts based computing context, recommender systems, mobile computing can enhance these applications. Therefore, the aim of this work is to design and implement a system of Service Desk Mobile, called Mobile Service Desk (MSD), which adds context awareness features such as user location, technical experience and temporal context. Moreover, the tool is integrated into a recommendation system, which stores past interactions and suggests as a possible solution for new similar incidents occurring in the managed environment. As contributions of this work, in addition to system design that aims to reduce unnecessary time-shift and optimize the allocation of technical, algorithms were compared for similarity analysis and applied to NBR 9241-11 for usability evaluation of some products Service Desk. / A gerência dos problemas ocorridos em ambientes que fazem uso da Tecnologia da Informação (TI), aliada a necessidade de uma resposta rápida das equipes de suporte, faz com que organizações necessitem de sistemas para gerenciamento desses incidentes. O Service Desk apresenta-se como uma boa solução para centralizar estes registros. Conceitos de computação baseada em contexto, sistemas de recomendação, computação móvel podem incrementar estes aplicativos. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho é projetar e implementar um sistema de Service Desk móvel, denominado Mobile Service Desk (MSD), que agrega funcionalidades de sensibilidade ao contexto, tais como localização do usuário, experiência do técnico e contexto temporal. Além disso, está integrado à ferramenta um sistema de recomendação, que armazena interações passadas e as sugere como possível solução para novos incidentes similares ocorridos no ambiente gerenciado. Como contribuições deste trabalho, além do projeto do sistema que visa redução de tempo com deslocamentos desnecessários e otimização do alocamento de técnicos, foram comparados algoritmos para análise de similaridade e aplicado a norma NBR 9241-11 para avaliação de usabilidade de alguns produtos de Service Desk.

Informationsteknologi (IT) är avgörande för organisationer och i samband med att IT har utvecklats har också komplexiteten ökat. Det har resulterat i att organisationer behövt gå från att vara teknikinriktade till att behöva fokusera på leverans av tjänster. För att göra det implementerar organisationer ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) där ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) är det vanligaste och mest använda ramverket inom ITSM. Enligt tidigare forskning är en av de största utmaningarna med ITSM och ITIL att det är för komplext och generiskt, vilket gör det svårt för små och medelstora företag att använda hela ramverket. Service Operation är den fas inom ITIL som ger mest fördelar i organisationen. De två processer som anses vara de viktigaste inom Service Operation är incident- och problemhanteringsprocessen. Incidenthanteringsprocessen är den första processen som bör implementeras i små och medelstora företag och ligger till grund för att problemhanteringsprocessen ska kunna implementeras. Vidare framkommer det att de nio aktiviteterna som definieras i incidenthanteringsprocessen är för omfattande för mindre företag. Syftet med studien är att bidra till forskning kring hur ett mindre mjukvaruföretag kan utforma sin incidenthanteringsprocess för att kunna identifiera det bakomliggande problemet. Syftet besvarades genom att undersöka vilka utmaningar och framgångsfaktorer det finns med hantering av incidenter och problem. En kvalitativ undersökningsmetod har tillämpats där fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts på ett mindre mjukvaruföretag i Sverige. I resultatet av studien identifierades sju framgångsfaktorer och sju utmaningar med hantering av incidenter och problem. Kategorisering, prioritering, eskalering och vikten av att identifiera och hantera det bakomliggande problemet är fyra aspekter som ses både som utmaningar men också som framgångsfaktorer. Vikten av att ha ett ärendehanteringssystem och definierade riktlinjer och felsökningsguider ses också som framgångsfaktorer. Ytterligare utmaningar som identifierats är supportprocesser, loggning och dokumentation av incidenter samt samarbete med externa leverantörer. Resultatet visar också att mindre företag bör prioritera de sex första aktiviteterna i ITIL’s incidenthanteringsprocess för att kunna identifiera det bakomliggande problemet. De tre sista aktiviteterna i processen är viktiga för att lösa själva incidenten och för att processen ska vara fullständig. / Information technology (IT) is crucial for organizations, and as IT has evolved, complexity has also increased. This has resulted in organizations needing to shift from being technology-oriented to focusing on service delivery. To achieve this, organizations implement ITSM (Information Technology Service Management), with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) being the most common and widely used framework within ITSM. According to previous research, one of the major challenges with ITSM and ITIL is that they are too complex and generic, making it difficult for small and medium-sized companies to utilize the entire framework. Service Operation is the phase within ITIL that provides the most benefits to an organization. The two processes that are considered to be the most important within Service Operation are the processes of Incident and Problem Management. The Incident Management process is the first process that should be implemented in small and medium-sized companies and serves as the foundation for the implementation of the Problem Management process. Furthermore, it is found that the nine activities defined in the Incident Management process are too extensive for smaller companies. The purpose of this study is to contribute to research on how a small software company can design its Incident Management process to identify the underlying problem. The purpose was addressed by examining the challenges and success factors associated with incident and problem management. A qualitative research method was applied, conducting four semi-structured interviews at a small software company in Sweden. The study identified seven success factors and seven challenges associated with incident and problem management. Categorization, prioritization, escalation, and the importance of identifying and addressing the underlying problem are four aspects that are seen as both challenges and success factors. The significance of having a ticket management system and defined guidelines and troubleshooting guides is also viewed as success factors. Additional challenges identified include support processes, logging, and documentation of incidents, as well as collaboration with external vendors. The results also indicate that smaller companies should prioritize the first six activities in ITIL's Incident Management process to identify the underlying problem. The final three activities in the process are important for resolving the incident itself and for the process to be complete.

Leeroy Group AB är ett IT-produktbolag i Sundsvall som även sköter support för sina produkter. Detta görs i ett egenutvecklat ärendehanteringssystem som under tid utvecklats och skräddarsytts efter verksamhetens behov. Leeroy är nu ute efter ett kraftfullare ärendehanteringssystem som skall ge möjlighet att ta hand om fler ärenden ju mer företaget växer. Detta examensarbete har inkluderat en grundlig förstudie bland de anställda på Leeroy. En kartläggning av krav och behov som finns för Leeroys' supporthantering har gjorts och sammanställts till en kravspecifikation. Leeroy har valt att titta på två stycken utvalda ärendehanteringssystem: Jira Service Desk och Zendesk. Utifrån den kravspecifikation som framkommit görs en dokumentations-inhämtning baserat på dessa krav och behov, för att sedan kunna presentera ett lämpligt alternativ för Leeroy. För att sedan ytterligare göra detta byta till en smidigare process har ett REST API och enklare webbapplikation utvecklats för att kunna hämta in kund-data från den befintliga kund-databasen. Webb-applikationen kommer att fungera som en koncept-applikation där man med sökning mot butiksnamn eller butiksnummer får ut all relevant information som Leeroys' supportanställda behöver.

The thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part we describe the theoretical basis for what we explain and analyze in practice in other parts of this thesis. In this section, we can find all stages of the service life cycle according to ITIL methodology (IT Infrastructure Library), which serves to all organizations involved in managing IT services. We focus mainly on the current version of ITIL V3, which is grouped in five books and gradually through the entire service life cycle. Whereas it is not used only one standard in practice, there are also described other methodologies which are often used. In the second part there is shown the practice of service delivery in IT area for company Pražská energetika a.s. There are mapped individual processes, roles and functions of one of the stages -- Service Operations. The primary goal of this section is a detailed description of the Service Desk function, where we compare theory with practice. In the last, third part we analyze obtained data, for the purpose to evaluate function of Service Desk. One of the objective of this analysis is a data prediction, which we will achieve by using time series. The results of this analysis will be provided to the company management.

This thesis is focused on managing the internal Service desk in medium and large companies. In the theoretical part is firstly defined what it's ICT service and how it is managed. It is followed by a characteristics of theoretical Framework ITIL, which deals with ICT services management. Then, a further theoretical framework COBIT is characterized, which also deals with the management of services, and these two frameworks are compared. The practical part consists of case study. A case study is based on analysis and evaluation of the current status of internally provided service Service desk at ALS Czech Republic. The analysis and evaluation is based on the knowledge and information contained in the theoretical part. The outcome of this work is general guidance for management of internally provided service Service desk in medium and large companies.

The goal of this diploma thesis is to translate theoretical concepts of knowledge management into the context of providing end user support by the service desk. It strives to define specifics caused by globalized and outsourced way of providing customer service. The thesis extends the traditional interpretation of knowledge management in this field by setting up a balanced view regarding both explicit and tacit knowledge and considers also appropriate tools and methods for its efficient creation, maintenance and sharing. Final part contains a case study, showing those applied concepts in practice of a company. The thesis is concluded by a set of generally usable recommendations for more effective management of customer support knowledge.