Initiate Your Service Management Program

IT organizations continue attempting to implement service management, often based on ITIL, with limited success and without visible value.
More than half of service management implementations have failed beyond simply implementing the service desk and the incident, change, and request management processes.
Organizational structure, goals, and cultural factors are not considered during service management implementation and improvement.
The business lacks engagement and understanding of service management.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Service management is an organizational approach. Focus on producing successful and valuable services and service outcomes for the customers.
All areas of the organization are accountable for governing and executing service management. Ensure that you create a service management strategy that improves business outcomes and provides the value and quality expected.

Impact and Result

Identified structure for how your service management model should be run and governed.
Identified forces that impact your ability to oversee and drive service management success.
Mitigation approach to restraining forces.

Initiate Your Service Management Program Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand why service management implementations often fail and why you should establish governance for service management.

Initiate Your Service Management Program – Executive Brief

1. Identify the level of oversight you need

Use Info-Tech’s methodology to establish an effective service management program with proper oversight.

Member Testimonials

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.

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Experience

Impact

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Testimonial

Platte River Power Authority

Guided Implementation

10/10

$14,643

Tony was knowledgeable about Service Management. He was supportive of what we are trying to do and took the time to explain IT Service Management i... Read More

Dakota County Government Center

Guided Implementation

9/10

N/A

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Table of Contents

Need Extra Help?
Speak With An Analyst

Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 2 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Call 1: Confirm service management goals and structure
Call 2: Analyze implications, impacting forces, and mitigation approaches

Author

Valence Howden

Contributors

Suzanne Van Hove, Lead Author of VeriSM
Claire Agutter, Director of Scopism and ITSM Zone, and Chief Architect for VeriSM
Steve Tremblay, itSMF Canada ITSM Director, Executive ITSM/ISO Trainer, and Distinguished Professional in Service Management (DPSM)