A service desk team acts as a single point of contact for its users. Service desk team members are the first-line support; however, if they are unable to resolve the incidents, they are escalated to…

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• AResults-based measurement
• BAdvanced analytics
• COutsourcing
• DSwarming

• A
  6% (4)
• B
  14% (9)
• C
  3% (2)
• D
  77% (49)

Explanation

Swarming replaces the traditional tiered escalation model by having a collaborative group - including senior specialists - work together on an incident simultaneously rather than passing it through queues. This directly eliminates the bottleneck caused by tickets waiting in line to move from first-line to second-line support.

Why the others are wrong:

• A. Results-based measurement - A performance measurement approach; it might reveal the queue problem but does nothing to fix the underlying structure.
• B. Advanced analytics - Useful for trend analysis and prediction, but analyzing ticket data faster still doesn't resolve the structural backlog caused by escalation handoffs.
• C. Outsourcing - Transfers the work externally, but the same tiered escalation model would persist with the vendor, recreating the same queue problem.

Memory tip: Picture bees swarming a hive threat all at once - everyone converges on the problem together rather than one bee passing it to the next. When you see "large queues from escalation tiers," that's your cue that the answer is Swarming.

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