Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | April 2022

Perfecting The MSP Service Dispatch Process

In this context, the service dispatcher participates in your service delivery incident lifecycle management processes, and schedules and assigns resources to address incidents and problems experienced by the clients and users you support; whether technical support is delivered remotely or onsite at a client’s location or elsewhere, such as at a datacenter.

The service dispatcher manages your incident response and escalation processes to ensure that technical support is delivered within your established SLAs, and uses your preferred software management tools and established processes and procedures to execute their role during technical service delivery.

Day to Day Service Dispatcher Responsibilities Include:

Manage Scheduling of all Technical Resources

• Coordinate and manage the scheduling of all technical resources, including service desk, NOC, and onsite or field service personnel
• Ensure that Technical resources are effectively utilized to maximize efficiencies and productivity
• Manage workload among service delivery technical staff to ensure appropriate and effective distribution and load-balancing of services to meet SLA
• Fulfill Single Point of Contact (SPOC) role for all service delivery technical staff for communication, status reporting, and support, whether service is delivered via remote or onsite support or conducted remotely or onsite
• Manage and maintain consistent, regular communications with service delivery technical staff with special attention paid to onsite and field-dispatched resources to obtain status as it pertains to existing scheduled service completion time and its effect on follow-on onsite service appointments
• Set and re-set onsite client expectations regarding onsite and field-dispatched resource arrival time based on ongoing status updates from the field and reschedule onsite service with clients as needed based upon priority and resource availability?

Continuously Monitor General Service Board to Identify New Requests

• Identify new service requests
• Contact requestors for lacking or needed information in order to properly log/document requests
• Classify new service requests based on device, application, or service issue and degradation level along with impact – entire organization, department or business unit, single user, etc.
• Prioritize new service requests based upon SLA?
• Assign new service requests to appropriate queues or individual resources

Continuously Monitor Individual Service Boards or Queues to Maintain SLAs

• Identify service requests at risk of missing their SLA
• Re-assign and/or re-prioritize service requests to other queues or individual resources to meet SLAs

Continuously Manage and Conduct Consistent Communications to Keep All Affected Parties Related to Service Requests Apprised of Status

• Ensure technical service staff maintain consistent incident management activity logging/documenting in PSA/trouble ticketing solution and deliver timely status updates and communication with affected parties per provider’s policies

Manage Reporting for Effective Service Delivery Performance

• Collate data and information to provide performance reporting on service delivery resource utilization, incident management performance, scheduling, adherence to SLA, and staff and client satisfaction

Conclusion

An effective service dispatch process will:

• Help ensure adherence to published SLAs
• Improve staff morale, efficiency, effectiveness, utilization, and profitability
• Increase client satisfaction
• Provide performance measurement and visibility
• Allow scaling of services more effectively

Modernizing Your MSP Cybersecurity Stack Webinar Thursday, April 28th        

Discover how to protect customers against advanced cyber threats and expand your cyber protection offerings.?

We all realize that ransomware and other modern cyberthreats are overwhelming you and your customers. To defend against these threats, you’ll need to upgrade your cyber defenses and enhance your cyber protection offerings to meet your customers’ cybersecurity requirements today and into the future.

Join me, cybersecurity maven Candid Wüest, and MSP entrepreneur and consultant Jesus Escolar for “5 Ways to?Modernize?Your MSP Cybersecurity Stack,” on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 10 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT.?

I’ll?share tips on evaluating your solutions portfolio with a fresh perspective to efficiently and profitably deliver the minimum cybersecurity bundle all your clients should agree to in order to maintain their business relationship with you, and how to get them to say YES during this must-attend session.

In this exclusive Acronis MSP webinar, we’ll also explore:

• New ransomware families and emerging cyberthreats and how to defend against them.
• The training, processes, and technologies you need as an MSP to upgrade your cyber defenses.
• How to deliver the right combination of cyber protection services to your customers

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