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Contributors
- Rod Weir, Founder and Managing Director, PRD Software
- Nicklas Fredriksson, CEO and ITSM Magician, Penguin Consultants Brasil
- Kamal Roz, IT Operations Manager, USO
- Gautam Bangalore, Business Analyst, Optus
- Michelle Hoyt, Enterprise Application Supervisor, Matanuska-Susitina Borough School District
- Anusha Das, IT Governance Analyst-ITIL, Oregon Lottery
- Ravi Prakash Singh, MS IS Student, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Brett Andrews, Managing Director, BAPTISM Consultancy
- Marty Miller-Crispe, Manager – Service Management Office, Griffith University
- Vlad de Ramos, General Manager, AIM Corporate Solutions, Inc.
- Pete Langlois, Systems Administrator, Century Bank
- Scott Walling, Co-founder, Monitor 24-7
- Pedro Soto, Managing Director, TOPdesk
- Roeland van Rijswijk, Service Management Consultant, TOPdesk
- Yev Khovrenkov, IT Consultant,
- Lucas Gutierrez, End-User Services Manager, City of Santa Fe
- Dave Smith, IT Trainer, Quanta Training Ltd.
Your Challenge
- An IT service management (ITSM) tool implementation can be a complicated task, requiring customized templates and workflows and correct integration with other tools that can be challenging to get right the first time to ensure the tool delivers value.
- If an RFP is required to select a service provider to implement the tool, it is critical to clearly structure the project tasks and service desk processes and services to develop the RFP.
- Managers without a project plan are often pressed into making decisions during the implementation without fully understanding their impact.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Buying a new tool is not a silver bullet for service desk woes. Your project needs to incorporate both a review of service desk processes and a product implementation to ensure the tool will support your current processes and any future processes you plan to implement.
- Whether or not you rely on professional services, there is a lot of work to do to ensure the project will be successful. It’s important to develop and manage a detailed plan to avoid hasty decisions that could undermine the tool’s value in the long run.
- Customization of the solution can hinder its performance down the road, but configurations can ensure the tool will deliver the value you need. However, there’s nothing wrong with an out-of-the-box solution if that’s what works for your organization.
Impact and Result
- Build an implementation plan to ensure the tool continues to meet business requirements in the long run. Make key decisions about configuration, integrations, and data migration before the implementation begins and you’ll have time to forecast the impact of your decisions.
- Include a service desk process review into the implementation plan to ensure you are not carrying over poor data and bad habits. The new tool doesn’t need to recreate your old service desk environment; it needs to create one that meets business requirements.
- A detailed implementation plan can help you decide whether your team can do the tool implementation in-house and identify requirements for the RFP if you choose to draw on professional services.
Guided Implementations
This guided implementation is an eleven call advisory process.
Guided Implementation #1 - Plan
Call #1 - Document goals, strategy, and business requirements. Identify and address potential objections.
Call #2 - Formalize an engagement strategy. Identify metrics to measure progress towards your implementation goals.
Call #3 - Set up diagnostic and receive results.
Guided Implementation #2 - Organize
Call #1 - Identify and document the scope of the implementation. Define and document existing and future processes the tool will need to support.
Call #2 - Evaluate pros and cons of different implementation approaches. Define what each phase will contain.
Call #3 - Develop and issue an RFP for professional services for implementation. Define roles and responsibilities of implementation team.
Call #4 - Track implementation tasks, timelines, and resources.
Guided Implementation #3 - Build
Call #1 - Identify and document functional tests to be performed.
Call #2 - Develop a UAT plan and test case scripts.
Guided Implementation #4 - Deploy
Call #1 - Develop a plan for communicating changes associated with the new tool.
Call #2 - Develop a plan to ensure the transition to the new tool and the go-live run smoothly.
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this Blueprint, and what our clients have to say.
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Town Of Marana
Guided Implementation
9/10
$70,034
47
Choctaw Nation Of Oklahoma
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Dakota County Government Center
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
4
City of Virginia Beach
Guided Implementation
10/10
$8,913
14
Pima Community College
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
N/A
Modern Woodmen of America
Guided Implementation
10/10
$31,833
14
Perkins Coie LLP
Guided Implementation
10/10
$20,373
7
Hudson River Healthcare
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
120
City of Virginia Beach
Guided Implementation
10/10
$63,667
20
Sound Transit
Guided Implementation
10/10
$31,833
50
Public Utility Commission State Of Oregon
Guided Implementation
6/10
N/A
2
Textron Inc
Guided Implementation
6/10
$3,183
5
Guardian Shared Services Limited
Guided Implementation
6/10
$6,366
30
City Of Atlanta
Guided Implementation
6/10
N/A
N/A