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“VCO” Requirements for Improving the Value Delivered by IT

“VCO” Requirements for Improving the Value Delivered by IT

 

 

Visibility – “Identification”

Basic data collection process

  

  • establish initial measurements – service level goal metrics
  • collect data on work, resources, issues, and metrics
  • analyze trends
  • perform initial root cause analysis

 

Control – “Effective”

Implement standard processes

    as standard processes are being implemented they may also be customized based on specific needs and the environment. Phased process change management (VCO) needs to be approached from an objective data collectection, and lessons learned, not on personal likes/dislikes.

Aligning Business & IT Objectives to Achieve a More Service Focused Organization

Common Business Objectives

Common IT Objectives

Become more Efficient

  • Control and Reduce and Operating Costs
  • Increase the output of “value-added” work
  • Improve the ability to achieve service level commitments
  • Improve the ability to provide cost-effective services for the customer
  • “Do more with less”
 
Improve IT’s ability to deliver IT projects on-schedule
Improve IT’s ability to deliver IT projects within budget
Increase the amount of “value-added” work that is completed by IT
Improve IT’s ability to measure and manage the delivery of IT Services
 
 
 
 
 

Become more Effective

  • Increase responsiveness to Customer Issues
  • Reduce reoccurring Customer Issues
  • Prevent Customer Issues from happening
  • Improve the organization’s ability to identify and mitigate risks associated with Service Interruptions
  • Improve quality of services delivered
Increase IT’s ability to quickly respond to Production Incidents
Increase IT’s ability to quickly resolve Production Incidents
Increase IT’s ability to identify reoccurring Production Incidents
Increase IT’s ability to determine the root-causes of reoccurring Production Incidents
Reduce the occurrence of Production Incidents
Prevent the occurrence of Production Incidents
Increase IT’s ability to manage IT Service Delivery Risk.
   

Improve the business’ ability to become a “Learning” Organization

  • Improve the organization’s ability to share knowledge
  • Improve the organization’s ability to institutionalize knowledge
  • Increase personnel skills that are necessary to deliver services that meet business objectives
Promote and utilize certification of key IT positions (Project Manager, Service Managers, Technical Managers)
Improve mentoring and coaching within IT
Implement or improve internal training programs
Establish formal program for institutionalizing critical knowledge
 

Increase the business’ ability to become a “Service Focused” Organization

  • Increase the organization’s ability communicate clearly with the customer
  • Increase the organization’s ability to deliver and manage services that provide value to the customer
  • Increase the organization’s ability to deliver and manage services that help the business achieve its objectives
  • Increase the organization’s ability to quickly provide new or improved services to the customer and the business.
Increase IT’s customers satisfaction scores
Increase the number of customer requests for IT services
Improve IT’s ability to understand the services that are provided by the business
Increase IT’s alignment with the services that are provided by the business
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Gunter, there are many possible SLA components and metrics that can be defined for any application software support. First I would recommend that you read this article which I had published in Computer World on "How to create Meaningful IT Support SLA's"  use this link...
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Daniel, from a certain point of view you are correct. CMMI- DEV deals primarily with software development best practices, the old CMM Level-5 dealt a great deal with defects. However, as you know the folks who developed the original CMM  were not really initially inter...
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Amiet, I would put it under the "Incident" process and track dates, number of occurrences, how much lost time, cause (who did it). You will need data for management if the practice has to stop. If you want to be "proactive" in stopping this practice" you must capture bu...
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Mark, it is doubtful that you can fix the problem, it is mainly a management issue. The best you can do is to gather statistics on the backlog of enhancements, the number and severity of incidents, and how many technical support calls from users you get and the average...
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Amit, first of all why is the customer powering down the equipment? This should be brought to the attention of management and a very strong note sent to whoever is doing this.  If they are doing it on their own without any instruction to do so and it affects other user...