​​Create a Service Management and IT Operations Strategy​

​​Move from assessment to action, using an interconnected approach to meet organizational goals.​

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Sophisticated frameworks and methodologies for fulfilling business requirements lead to ineffective service management and IT operations for meeting critical organization’s requirements:

  • Practices are delivered in silos due to lack of collaboration and coordination.
  • Lack of a cohesive operating model and strategy results in bottlenecks, delays, and failure to deliver services efficiently.
  • As IT should consider multiple interdependencies, it will lead to delays in delivery and a perception that IT is slow in fulfilling business needs.
  • IT operations usually struggle with showing visibility and transparency into IT investments and showing the impacts to interested parties.
  • IT may struggle with articulating business values of investments in technology, while business leaders may not fully understand the technology value, constraints, and enablers.

Create a vision of the future of service management and IT operations, and develop a strategy that will align IT operational initiatives with organizational goals:

  • Define a vision and guiding principles to support organizational and operational goals.
  • Build a comprehensive strategy and roadmap to unify operations and service management to support your organization’s objectives.
  • Enhance business agility by maturing IT operations.
  • Improve end-user satisfaction as a result of better service delivery and further alignment of services with customer needs.

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Module 1: Define the Target State

The Purpose

Establish a clear vision of your organization’s goals and set foundations for aligning service management and IT operations improvement activities with organizational objectives.

Key Benefits Achieved

Clear vision and mission statements, prioritized goals, and established guiding principles to ensure service management and IT operations enable the organization’s long-term goals.

Activities: Outputs:
1.1 Construct vision and mission statements
  • Vision and mission statements
1.2 Define goals and guiding principles
  • Guiding principles
1.3 Prioritize organizational goals
  • Prioritized organizational goals
1.4 Evaluate diagnostic data
  • Key focus areas from surveys

Module 2: Define the Current State

The Purpose

Get a better understanding about the current state of service management and IT operations. Identify strengths, weaknesses, and key dependencies.

Key Benefits Achieved

A comprehensive landscape of IT operations and service management to make processes ready for future improvements.

Activities: Outputs:
2.1 Conduct a current-state assessment
  • Current state of IT operations and service management
2.2 Prioritize initiatives
  • Prioritized improvement processes/practices
2.3 Analyze and document critical dependencies
  • List of critical dependencies for improvement
2.4 Document strengths and areas of improvement
  • List of process/practice strengths and areas of improvement
2.5 Review, governance, infrastructure, and technical capabilities

Module 3: Bridge the Gap and Create the Roadmap

The Purpose

Build a detailed plan for improvement initiatives and develop a roadmap to make sure you will reach the target state.

Key Benefits Achieved

Structured plan for identified improvement candidates, clear responsibilities for each task, and visualized improvement journey to facilitate communication of your strategy.

Activities: Outputs:
3.1 Document and prioritize improvement candidates
  • Prioritized list of improvements
3.2 Create a RACI matrix
  • Roles and responsibilities for each improvement candidate
3.3 Visualize your roadmap
  • Roadmap of improvement initiatives
3.4 Plan improvements using Info-Tech’s resources
  • List of Info-Tech resources to guide improvements

Module 4: Establish Metrics and Risk Mitigation

The Purpose

Create a list of metrics to assess the impact of improvements, identify implementation constraints, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful implementation.

Key Benefits Achieved

A comprehensive list of metrics to track progress, potential implementation roadblocks, and strong mitigation strategies.

Activities: Outputs:
4.1 Identify metrics and targets
  • List of KPIs and target metrics
4.2 Assess implementation constraints and discuss mitigation plans
  • List of constraints and risks for implementing improvements
  • Mitigation strategy
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