In IT, almost half of ageing service tickets are felt to take too long and at least a quarter become bad experiences because needs are not met quickly enough, or are not even met at all.*

Unmanaged backlog builds. Tickets are chased - and much more than is known.

The reason has little to do with teams being busy. Standard practice is the reason. Accepted as best practice when it is not, larger organisations are left with major operational issues that harm service quality and customer experience.

Ticket prioritisation is standard practice. When needs are not met at the initial response, subsequent activity to reach completion is completely unguided apart from a completion service level target - the SLA - which is defunct for tickets placed on-hold, and without substantial governance and managerial effort, is otherwise left unmanaged.

Activity Prioritisation (AP) addresses these major shortcoming by providing continuous guidance, ensuring responsiveness and timely progression without exception. Service level targets might rarely be reached and when they are, breach is either prevented, or the breach is not for long^.

AP and other Focus Framework practices for Flow Management have been designed and developed for IT support but are equally applicable for any busy and complex customer service division. The way to success in IT can be shared with your line-of-business where success matters the most.

There is probably no better way for IT to add value for its supported business.