Consulting Services 2008 Annual Survey Results

Peter Kiewit Computing Services recently completed its fourth annual Consulting Services’ survey. The survey seeks input from faculty, staff and students to determine the campus’ satisfaction with support provided by the consulting group and from that to help us look for areas of improvement. The survey was announced on October 20th and responses were collected over a two week period of time.

The survey consisted of seven questions. The questions were consistent with the questions that have been asked in the previous three years and relate to satisfaction and responsiveness.

Overview of Respondents

People taking the survey were asked to identify their primary association with the College. The respondents included 40 arts and science faculty, 190 staff, 7 students, 6 professional school faculty or staff and 8 “Other”. Two additional respondents did not specify their association.

When asked to respond to the statement, “I am generally satisfied with the services provided by the IT Service Desk” on a scale where 1 equates to strongly disagree and 5 equates to strongly agree faculty, staff and students gave the consultants an average rating of 4.57. In addition, when asked to respond to the statement “IT Service Desk staff members exhibit a customer-oriented attitude” more than 92% of those answering the question either agreed or strongly agreed with this statement. These ratings speak very highly of the staff in the Consulting group and their commitment to the people that they serve.

This data indicates that the service desk responded to a request within one hour approximately more than 61% of the time and when the window is expanded to one day requests were responded to more than 95% of the time. While we strive to respond to all requests within one day we achieved a success rate of almost 95% so we are doing very well in getting back to people.

When we look at the data regarding solving problems rather than just contacting the user, more than 48% of the time problems are resolved immediately, and an additional 32% are resolved within one day. These figures from the 2007 survey showed 49% of the time the problems were resolved immediately and an additional 28% of the time problems were resolved within one day. Figures from the 2006 survey showed 60% of the time problems are resolved immediately, and additional 23% are resolved within one day.

In the past, the largest area of dissatisfaction was in relation to finding information on the website and in our printed materials. This trend continues this year with an average response of 3.53.