Helpdesk Resources: Publications

Online Customer Care: Strategies for Call Center Excellence
Cusack's book is a timely and detailed introduction to the world of emerging technologies in customer care, and will be a valuable resource to any organization attempting to set up world-class customer care operations today.

Information Technology and Project Management Toolkit
An extensive collection of IT management resources - articles, assessment tools, process templates and planning guides. For the management of IT services, projects and operations.

The Call Center Handbook 4 Ed
The Complete Guide to Starting, Running, and Improving Your Customer Contact Center.

Customer-Effective Web Sites
Addresses every component of e-commerce success: content, navigation, applications, information architecture, visual design, technology, and more. Presents 17 rules that every site must follow to attract profitable customers. Softcover. DLC: Web sites--Design.

Call Center Magazine
Case Studies, News Updates, Articles, and many other great resources for Call Centers and Help Desks.

The Complete Help Desk Guide
This book will teach you how to create the world's best-manned or unmanned help desk for technical support - for employees and/or customers. This book will help you choose the right help desk software, the best help desk equipment and find the right employees.

The Art of Software Support
A guide to building and running help desks and software support centers, with advice on overcoming the crisis mentality, choosing the appropriate call management model, selecting tools such as phone and fax systems and customer tracking software, supervising, and measuring performance.

IT Support News
IT Support News is a business newspaper edited exclusively for IT service, support, and training professionals.

Call Center Management on Fast Forward
This book is an absolute must for every call center professional. You will never again be stumped for an answer or business case by your finance or technology folks.

Frontier Decision Support Concepts
Help Desk, Learning, Fuzzy Diagnoses, Quality Evaluation, Prediction, Evolution while it provides explanations of underlying principles and cutting-edge concepts, its main purpose is to provide managers in business and engineers in industry with practical guidance to state-of-the-art decision support tools and technology.

Books of Interest to the help desk professional
List of several books that may be of interest to any support professional.

Customer Support Management Magazine
Support Management is the only enterprise-wide customer relationship management publication, focused on customer service & support, for senior-level and management readership across all vertical industries.

A Guide to Computer User Support
This book provides an overview of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for employment in the user support industry. Developed with the input of industry advisors, this titles emphasizes problem-solving and communication skills in addition to technical coverage.

Delivering World-Class Technical Support
This book provides an outstanding overview of what it takes to put together a solid support organization.

Customer Service for Dummies
Well-written, fun-to-read...An excellent book to make those hard-earned marketing dollars work to your advantage.

CIO
The Leading Resource for Information Executives.

The Big Book of Customer Service Training Games
Quick, Fun Activities for training customer service reps, salespeople, and anyone else who deals with customers.
 

Resources: Websites

IT Toolbox: Resource for all aspects of CRM industry
ITtoolbox CRM - Content, community, and service for CRM professionals.
Providing technical discussion, job postings, an integrated directory, news, and much more.

Real Market: CRM news and information
RealMarket - A CRM news and information site. Includes a Daily Newsletter including the headline CRM news, webcasts, and other resources.



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