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Helping Your Users to Help You

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Providing IT support can be a hugely complex business; it’s not something to be undertaken lightly, as it can be very involved and hugely technical and require both focus and skill. This means then that having the end user help you with the process, and perhaps even fixing problems themselves, would be the last resort.

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Halsey, M. (2019). Helping Your Users to Help You. In: The IT Support Handbook. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5133-1_18

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