Design and Build a User-Facing Service Catalog
Improve user satisfaction with IT with a convenient menu-like catalog.
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Many organizations offer IT services in a very ad hoc fashion:
- There is no formal structure to the way services are offered.
- Business users have little knowledge of what IT services are available to them.
- Creating a service catalog is a difficult task with low success rates and without a defined methodology.
A user-facing Service Catalog helps IT and business users in the following ways:
- IT users communicate all the services that IT provides to the business
- IT users concentrate more on high-value IT services
- IT users can reduce shadow IT and gain control of services
- Business users will access IT services with ease
- Business users will empower themselves to self-serve
- Business users will gain transparency on IT services provided
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Launch the Project
The Purpose
- The purpose of this module is to help engage IT with business decision making.
Key Benefits Achieved
- This module will help build a foundation for the project to begin. The buy-in from key stakeholders is key to having them take onus on the project’s completion.
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| 1.1 | Assemble the project team. |
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| 1.2 | Develop a communication plan. |
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| 1.3 | Establish metrics for success. |
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| 1.4 | Complete the project charter. |
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Module 2: Identify and Define Enterprise Services
The Purpose
The purpose of this module is to review services which are offered across the entire organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
A complete list of enterprise services defined from the user’s perspective to help them understand what is available to them.
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| 2.1 | Identify enterprise services used by almost everyone across the organization. |
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| 2.2 | Categorize services into logical groups. |
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| 2.3 | Define the services from the user’s perspective. |
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Module 3: Identify and Define Line of Business (LOB) Services
The Purpose
The purpose of this module is to define the remaining LOB services for business users, and separate them into functional groups.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Business users are not cluttered with LOB definitions that do not pertain to their business activities.
- Business users are provided with only relevant IT information.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify the LOBs. |
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| 3.2 | Determine which one of two methodologies is more suitable. |
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| 3.3 | Identify LOB services using appropriate methodology. |
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| 3.4 | Define services from a user perspective. |
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Module 4: Complete the Full Service Definitions
The Purpose
- The purpose of this module is to guide the client to completing their service record definitions completely.
Key Benefits Achieved
- This module will finalize the deliverable for the client by defining every user-facing service in novice terms.
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| 4.1 | Understand the components to each service definition (information fields). |
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| 4.2 | Pick which information to include in each definition. |
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| 4.3 | Complete the service definitions. |
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