Most CMDB’s have not delivered any real value. Although we have collected and stored lots of data, the CMDB has been a solution in search of a problem. No longer. As IT moves from technical activities to customer centric IT services, the CMBD plays a critical, strategic role.
As we build and deliver IT services to our customers (employees), IT Service Owners will be very visible – and intently focused on delivering high quality outcomes, on time, with service availability and cost as advertised. Without effective configuration management, this cannot be done.
Please join us as we explore the new strategic role of the CMDB, and how processes, people, costs & technologies converge into services – with the CMDB aligning, connecting and managing the configuration items to make this all possible.
We will also demo our always evolving view of a very advanced, self-service catalog & portal, with a focus on the service owner & the role of the CMDB.
Full webinar recording available at:
http://content.evergreensys.com/cmdb-webinar-it-services-strategic-role
CMDB Presentation from keynote at ITSMF Pittsburgh Local Interest Group.
Topic: CMDB as a Corporate Asset
Presenter: Abbas Haider Ali, VP Product Strategy at Managed Objects
Agenda:
* CMDB 101 - What is it, What ins't it, and Why should you care about having one?
* Selecting what goes with your CMDB asset management, performance management, discovery data, IT management
* Monolithic vs. Disctributed CMDBs - One to rule them all?
* Practical guide to implementing a CMDB (customer case studies)
* Use cases and ROI realized
* Whiteboard / Discussion with audience suggestions on CMDB topics
Effectively Planning for an Enterprise-Scale CMDB ImplementationAntonio Rolle
Provies a review of why a CMDB is essential to and is the foundation of your BSM strategy. I also outline the known challenges that require planning at the outset of a CMDB initiative. Includes a case study which details the approach and lessons learned in the initial stages of a CMDB rollout for one of the largest financial institutions in North America
ServiceNow Configuration Management Database Jade Global
The ServiceNow CMDB provides a consolidated system of record for IT. The CMDB can be made service-oriented by establishing Logical CIs (Business Services, Components, etc.) to serve as a layer of abstraction underpinning the ITSM processes.
CMDB Presentation from keynote at ITSMF Pittsburgh Local Interest Group.
Topic: CMDB as a Corporate Asset
Presenter: Abbas Haider Ali, VP Product Strategy at Managed Objects
Agenda:
* CMDB 101 - What is it, What ins't it, and Why should you care about having one?
* Selecting what goes with your CMDB asset management, performance management, discovery data, IT management
* Monolithic vs. Disctributed CMDBs - One to rule them all?
* Practical guide to implementing a CMDB (customer case studies)
* Use cases and ROI realized
* Whiteboard / Discussion with audience suggestions on CMDB topics
Effectively Planning for an Enterprise-Scale CMDB ImplementationAntonio Rolle
Provies a review of why a CMDB is essential to and is the foundation of your BSM strategy. I also outline the known challenges that require planning at the outset of a CMDB initiative. Includes a case study which details the approach and lessons learned in the initial stages of a CMDB rollout for one of the largest financial institutions in North America
ServiceNow Configuration Management Database Jade Global
The ServiceNow CMDB provides a consolidated system of record for IT. The CMDB can be made service-oriented by establishing Logical CIs (Business Services, Components, etc.) to serve as a layer of abstraction underpinning the ITSM processes.
Enriching your CMDB data
Automated population of the CMDB
Straightening out the Product Catalog with Normalization
Reconciliation tips and performance tuning
Benefits
Marlabs Capabilities Overview: Application Maintenance Support Services Marlabs
Marlabs application development and support services include application design, development, systems integration/consolidation, re-engineering, and implementation of packages.
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
Service Catalog & Request Fulfillment, the cornerstone of IT Service ManagementBMC Software
As your business embraces user self-service, so must your IT department embrace the service catalog. Service catalogs have become the heart of IT management as IT organizations seek to reduce call volume and improve user satisfaction. When embraced by IT and the business, a service catalog provides your customers a comprehensive view of your IT and business service offerings and enables the user to more seamlessly interact with IT and other aspects of the business. BMC Software and Pink Elephant review how adopting ITIL best practices for service catalog management and request fulfillment can help your IT organization
The CMDB is the ServiceNow database that stores information about all technical services. Within the CMDB Discovery, the support information for each service offering is stored in a Configuration Item (CI) specific to that service. It enables IT teams, to better manage their infrastructure especially in the areas of business service impact analysis, asset management, and compliance. Learn how our ServiceNow experts use CMDB’s Core capabilities to assist businesses and organizations in monitoring and detecting health issues
ITIL, formally an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form (known as ITIL V3),
Presenting this set of slides with name - Itil Framework Powerpoint Presentation Slides. This aptly crafted editable PPT deck contains nineteen slides. Our topic specific Itil Framework Powerpoint Presentation Slides deck helps devise the topic with a clear approach. We offer a wide range of custom made slides with all sorts of relevant charts and graphs, overviews, topics subtopics templates, and analysis templates. Speculate, discuss, design or demonstrate all the underlying aspects with zero difficulty. This deck also consists creative and professional looking slides of all sorts to achieve the target of a presentation effectively. You can present it individually or as a team working in any company organization
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
Asset Management vs. Configuration Management: Who's Winning?Cireson
Join us to learn more about best practices in the battle of Asset vs Configuration!
AGENDA:
• In the age of BYOD and the Internet of Everything, is your focus on assets or the configuration that delivers value? Discover how these two forces complement each other.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of how your IT configuration assures maximum infrastructure availability and efficiency.
• Learn why detailed knowledge of your assets, whether owned or leased, onsite or elsewhere, is critical to the effective delivery of your IT-driven business capability, and how doing it wrong could be costing you money and impacting your delivery.
• Understand how effective Asset Management will not only help you reduce the cost of service delivery, it can assist you with compliance in an age where data integrity is critical.
Insanity has been famously defined as "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results". So what is it aout your CMDB that is making you crazy: is it the results, or is it the doing? How close are you to a drawing board?
Enriching your CMDB data
Automated population of the CMDB
Straightening out the Product Catalog with Normalization
Reconciliation tips and performance tuning
Benefits
Marlabs Capabilities Overview: Application Maintenance Support Services Marlabs
Marlabs application development and support services include application design, development, systems integration/consolidation, re-engineering, and implementation of packages.
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
Service Catalog & Request Fulfillment, the cornerstone of IT Service ManagementBMC Software
As your business embraces user self-service, so must your IT department embrace the service catalog. Service catalogs have become the heart of IT management as IT organizations seek to reduce call volume and improve user satisfaction. When embraced by IT and the business, a service catalog provides your customers a comprehensive view of your IT and business service offerings and enables the user to more seamlessly interact with IT and other aspects of the business. BMC Software and Pink Elephant review how adopting ITIL best practices for service catalog management and request fulfillment can help your IT organization
The CMDB is the ServiceNow database that stores information about all technical services. Within the CMDB Discovery, the support information for each service offering is stored in a Configuration Item (CI) specific to that service. It enables IT teams, to better manage their infrastructure especially in the areas of business service impact analysis, asset management, and compliance. Learn how our ServiceNow experts use CMDB’s Core capabilities to assist businesses and organizations in monitoring and detecting health issues
ITIL, formally an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form (known as ITIL V3),
Presenting this set of slides with name - Itil Framework Powerpoint Presentation Slides. This aptly crafted editable PPT deck contains nineteen slides. Our topic specific Itil Framework Powerpoint Presentation Slides deck helps devise the topic with a clear approach. We offer a wide range of custom made slides with all sorts of relevant charts and graphs, overviews, topics subtopics templates, and analysis templates. Speculate, discuss, design or demonstrate all the underlying aspects with zero difficulty. This deck also consists creative and professional looking slides of all sorts to achieve the target of a presentation effectively. You can present it individually or as a team working in any company organization
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
Asset Management vs. Configuration Management: Who's Winning?Cireson
Join us to learn more about best practices in the battle of Asset vs Configuration!
AGENDA:
• In the age of BYOD and the Internet of Everything, is your focus on assets or the configuration that delivers value? Discover how these two forces complement each other.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of how your IT configuration assures maximum infrastructure availability and efficiency.
• Learn why detailed knowledge of your assets, whether owned or leased, onsite or elsewhere, is critical to the effective delivery of your IT-driven business capability, and how doing it wrong could be costing you money and impacting your delivery.
• Understand how effective Asset Management will not only help you reduce the cost of service delivery, it can assist you with compliance in an age where data integrity is critical.
Insanity has been famously defined as "doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results". So what is it aout your CMDB that is making you crazy: is it the results, or is it the doing? How close are you to a drawing board?
On May 22nd, C/D/H presented its Best of the Microsoft Management Summit 2012. Attendees learned all things MMS, like:
• MMS basics, including who, what, where, and why
• The evolution of the datacenter
• Private vs. public cloud
• All things System Center, including deep dives and demos on SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, and SCSM
• New licensing details
• New Microsoft certifications
View C/D/H’s Best of MMS slide deck for all the conference highlights and big news about System Center 2012, and what it means for you.
And for more information on this or other topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
Asset Management: Extending Configuration Manager with CiresonCireson
In this session, Wally and Pete will focus on building upon the foundation of Configuration Manager's asset management capabilities with System Center 2012 and Cireson to deliver true enterprise asset management.
Key topics in this session will include:
-Native Configuration Manager asset management functionality
-The limitations of the native asset management in Configuration Manager
-Augmenting Configuration Manager with other System Center 2012 components
-Extending System Center 2012 with Cireson’s Asset Management features, including:
• Normalizing the Software Catalog data collected by Configuration Manager
• Bringing true hardware asset management to System Center
• Incorporating business & financial data into your asset management strategy
• Extending asset management in System Center to incorporate 3rd party data
• Asset manageability via warranty, support and maintenance contract status
• Visualization & management of asset data across devices and interfaces
Whether you are a seasoned asset manager or System Center administrator, you will leave this session with a roadmap for implementing an enterprise asset management strategy for your organization leveraging the System Center software you already own.
If your end users must remember 5 or more passwords and are inundating the helpdesk with password-reset calls, you have a costly—but avoidable—problem.
We can help you fix it!
Download the slide deck to learn how deploying an enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution from Novell can help you deliver a quick win with a near-immediate return on investment.
How to Scope Your Enterprise CMDB Project Successfully: Big Vision, Baby Stepsdigitallibrary
Setting realistic expectations, managing project scope, and delivering timely value are challenges that cause over 50% of CMDB projects to fail. Understanding the detailed requirements for your CMDB project, which set scope and drive the project timeline, is the cornerstone of successful implementation. Learn about techniques used by some of the largest companies in the world to overcome "analysis paralysis" and move forward with their CMDB initiatives. Find out first-hand how to create a requirements document that will correctly scope, set priorities, and make your CMDB project actionable.
IT and Business Alignment - Mapping the Physical, Virtual and Business WorldsNovell
This session will cover integration to PlateSpin Recon for the virtualized environment, integration collecting the physical environment and business data integration into a single view aligning the virtual, physical and business world. This discussion will focus on the methods, mechanics and best practices of federating these data sources into a view, such as a configuration management database (CMDB) as an example, by which to take action. It is intended to cover the technical aspects of the integration capabilities to various database sources marrying application data to the infrastructure providing near real-time views of data from it's source versus solutions that extract, translate and load data into a common repository that now must be maintained. The Novell BSM solution accesses the data in near real-time from the trusted management source providing the most accurate, view of federated data turning it into actionable information.
SAM за 7 шагов. Рецепт для небольших компанийValery Bychkov
21 июня в сообществе Смартсорсинг прошел вебинар «SAM за 7 шагов. Рецепт для небольших компаний» на котором Дмитрий Исайченко (Cleverics), рассказал о том, как организовать процесс управления активами ПО в небольшой компании. Весь вебинар – рассказ о том, как в компании Cleverics решали задачи учёта ПО, инвентаризации, управления лицензионными соглашениями и т.д. Так что, никаких абстрактных теорий и рекомендаций – только практический опыт.
Building a Configuration Management Database from the Ground UpNovell
Come see an overview of a configuration management database (CMDB), how data is federated and how it is used in an organization. The session will provide a live demonstration and discussion of the Novell CMDB solution. It will also show you how to determine the best data sources and the best level of detail to bring into the CMDB. In addition, the session will cover the automations that the Novell solution brings in to correlate and reconcile data sources to build the CMDB and later to keep the CMDB synchronized and accurate with the data sources of record. Various visualization techniques will also be covered based upon the role of the user.
Download White Paper : CMDB Implementations - A Tale of Two ExtremesServiceDesk Plus
One of the "quality problems" to have, as your business grows is the challenge of managing all your resources. As the number of your employees grows and your IT assets expand, it is difficult to ascertain exactly what and where all your assets are. It is important to get more visibility on what applications and services are running on each asset, how they interact, and the business impact if these resources are down, responding poorly or slowly, or jeopardized by security threats.
Download the white paper for free now !!!
http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/cmdb-white-paper.html
A Practical Guide to CMDB Deployment in a Tivoli EnvironmentAntonio Rolle
This presentation focuses on the significance of the CMDB to your organization and offers practical guidelines for successful population of the CMDB utilizing the Tivoli Netcool suite of products. Specific products discussed include Precision for IP Networks, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) and Maximo.
Service Catalog, Service Portfolio, Service Taxonomy - Big 3 of Customer Cent...Evergreen Systems
IT Service Catalog, Service Portfolio and Service Taxonomy: Learn the important role of each, and how they work together to help you deliver great services your customers will love! Access webinar recording at: http://content.evergreensys.com/it-service-catalog-webinar-customer-centric-it-evergreen
Service Catalog Essentials: 5 Keys to Good Service Design in IT Service CatalogsEvergreen Systems
Fresh thinking on IT Self-Service!
It’s easy to create hundreds of services, fast – with little oversight – and it will kill your Service Catalog initiative. Your customer will see it as inconsistent, complex and confusing – and stop coming.
Do you make lots of small services, or a few big, complex ones?...How do you decide?...Which do your customers prefer?
Please join us as we share best practices on creating and using a consistent Service Design Process – that addresses these issues and actually saves time, simplifies your work, and gives you consistent quality. And it will make your customers happy!
Full webinar recording with ServiceNow demo available at: http://content.evergreensys.com/webinar-it-service-catalog-good-service-design
IT Service Catalog: Customer, Provider and Manager Views of a Service CatalogEvergreen Systems
Please join us for a 30,000 foot view of the customer, provider and manager’s views of the Service Catalog. We will combine high level content from over 20 webinars we presented this year as we consider 3 success keys and 3 critical challenges to overcome, from each perspective.
This content rich webinar is enhanced by our newest intellectual property, as we unveil our Evergreen's “Service Governance Design Principles” guide. Another tool from Evergreen’s consulting toolkit, it covers the roles, responsibilities, KPIs and makeup of a Service Governance capability & process. With it you can build a clear, direct governance process correctly, which you can rely upon to create and manage high quality, consistent services for your Service Catalog efforts.
As always, we will demonstrate these concepts in our constantly evolving view of a very advanced Employee Self-Service Catalog & Portal, built on ServiceNow technologies.
For full webinar recording including ServiceNow demo please visit http://content.evergreensys.com/webinar-it-service-catalog-customer-provider-manager-views-turkey
The Service Catalog is not a Request Portal. The terms are often used interchangeably due to lack of knowledge, which can cause confusion for IT and IT's customers.
Over the past year, Evergreen conducted dozens of one-day Service Catalog workshops around the U.S. Attended by more than 500 people, a recurring theme we noted was that many attendees thought they had a Service Catalog, when in fact they actually had a Request Portal.
IT needs to increase its focus on 3 important areas:
Delivering services customers want and need
Better alignment with the needs of the business
Cost transparency to give visibility to the cost of services
Learn more and access the webinar recording at:
http://www.evergreensys.com/it-webinars-whitepapers-evergreen-systems
#servicecatalog #itsm #servicenow #itservicecatalog
IT Service Catalogs are dangerous. It’s easy to create hundreds of services, fast – with little oversight – and it will kill your Service Catalog initiative. Your customer will see it as inconsistent, complex and confusing – and stop coming. It doesn’t have to be that way. Evergreen shares best practices on creating and using a consistent Service Design Process. It actually saves time, simplifies your work, and gives you consistent quality. And it will make your customers happy.
Visit our website for the recorded webinar where we also demonstrate these best practices in our beautiful and innovative, customer-centric Service Catalog built with ServiceNow.
http://content.evergreensys.com/it-service-catalog-webinar-service-design-process
IT Service Catalog: 5 Steps to Prepare Your Organization for Successful Servi...Evergreen Systems
Few Organizations have deep experience in planning for a successful Service Catalog project. Questions abound:
"What are the best practices? How will we measure success? What roles & responsibilities will we have? What are the customer & executive expectations...and how do we address them? What options do we have for getting started? Can we start simply and grow as we learn?"
Successful Service Catalog projects are dramatically different than many other IT projects. Please join Don Casson, CEO of Evergreen as he answers these questions and explains the 5 steps to prepare your team for success with your IT Service Catalog project.
Jeff Benedict, ITSM Practice Leader, will demo our constantly evolving view of a very advanced Employee Self-Service Catalog & Portal, built on ServiceNow technologies.
Webinar recording with demo available at http://content.evergreensys.com/it-service-catalog-project-steps-prepare-organization
Don Casson, CEO and Jeff Benedict, ITSM Practice Manager share best practices you can use to clearly define and communicate - who is the Customer and what are the Services? They also share how a service catalog taxonomy framework helps you organize and manage this as ONE team. You may download or playback the recording here: http://bit.ly/1BWnEkX #servicecatalog #servicenow #itsm
Short overview from design to proper cost allocation of IT services / products. / Kurzer Ueberblick in die Erstellung eines IT Service Katalogs bis zur verursachergerechten Fakturierung.
“How to Make ITIL Work To Your Benefit”
Learn how the St. Edward’s Professional Education’s ITIL training program can help your organization improve your IT service management using ITIL with traditional instructor-led training.
Beverly Weed-Schertzer explains how ITIL, the most widely used IT service management framework, supports business objectives, enables changes, adds value to service risk management, and optimizes customer experience while being economical. Additionally, this explores the various trends in the domain and serves as a one-stop guide for all aspiring professionals looking to build a career in this discipline.
This presentation is about -
History of ITIL,
ITIL Qualification scheme,
Introduction to ITIL,
For more details visit -
http://vibranttechnologies.co.in/itil-classes-in-mumbai.html
Similar to CMDB - Strategic Role in IT Services - Configuration Management Moves Front and Center! (20)
While successful IT self-service is critical today, most organizations have taken a fragmented, reactive approach - and are not happy with their results. Is this the case for you? If so, please join us for some fresh thinking in IT self-service. And deliver IT self-service your employees will love!
We will look at where the highest value is, what kinds of activities are a good fit, how to get customers using it, and how to create a coordinated program approach that really works – sharing success tips and pitfalls to avoid along the way.
Full webinar recording with ServiceNow demo available at:
http://content.evergreensys.com/webinar-it-self-service-slides
Leveraging IT Service Catalog to Transform Services Delivery - Argonne Nation...Evergreen Systems
IT Service Catalog project with ServiceNow. For full webinar recording visit http://content.evergreensys.com/service-catalog-webinar-services-delivery-argonne
Use a Service Taxonomy to Organize and Manage Your IT Services ! What services do we offer? How do we organize them? How can we make them "customer centric?” What is a good starting point?
Successful IT Service Catalogs have well organized services. The Services Taxonomy, or framework is the key to organizing and understanding your services well.
Please join us to learn how to build a good service taxonomy in 4 logical steps, as well as 3 key mistakes to avoid.
In addition to a demo of our prebuilt service taxonomy, we will demonstrate these concepts in our constantly evolving view of a very advanced Employee Self-Service Catalog & Portal, built on ServiceNow technologies.
Recording with demo available at http://content.evergreensys.com/service-taxonomy-webinar-slides-manage-it-services
Incident, Problem, Change, Knowledge…and Service Catalog? A Powerful Circle. Evergreen Systems
For years ITSM has been done the same old tired way – Incident, Problem, Change and a little Knowledge – because that’s what we know. But it does NOTHING for our CUSTOMER – their experience doesn’t change at all.
This is no longer good enough.
Tying Service Catalog with Incident, Problem, Change and Knowledge changes the answer to the question, “Why are we doing this?”
Please join us as we explore the powerful links between these five, how this changes the way we think and how this can powerfully (and positively) impact the value your IT organization delivers to your customer and your business. It’s time to demand more.
As always, we will demonstrate these concepts in our constantly evolving view of a very advanced Employee Self-Service Catalog & Portal, built on ServiceNow technologies.
Recording with demo available at http://content.evergreensys.com/service-catalog-webinar-incident-problem-change-slides
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IT Service Taxonomy Essentials: Separate IT and Business Services Catalogs?Evergreen Systems
IT Service Catalogs and portals are proliferating. How many Service Catalogs do you need? Should you have separate IT and business service catalogs? What do you do when a service combines parts of both? How do you not totally confuse your customers? Evergreen shares how to create and manage a federated Service Catalog approach – enabling both a consistent service face to your customers and giving your IT teams the latitude they need to execute effectively. We also briefly demonstrate our beautiful and innovative customer-centric Service Catalog (on ServiceNow) – with our service taxonomy framework built in! Recorded event with live demo available at http://content.evergreensys.com/it-service-catalog-webinar-separate-catalogs-slides
IT Service Catalog: Build a Service Taxonomy in 4 Easy StepsEvergreen Systems
IT Service Catalog - Service Taxonomy
What services do we offer? How do we organize them? How can we make them "customer-centric?" What is a good starting point?
Successful IT Service Catalogs have well-organized services. The services taxonomy, or framework is the key to organizing and managing your services effectively.
Please join us to learn how to build a good service taxonomy in 4 logical steps, as well as 3 key mistakes to avoid.
We will also briefly demonstrate our beautiful and innovative customer-centric IT Service Catalog (built on ServiceNow).
A large internet services provider who was experiencing rapid growth of their IT infrastructure had twin challenges. They needed to support IT without growing their IT staff, while also increasing the time spent on enhancing and improving services rather than “keep the lights on” activities. This is a condensed version of the analysis Evergreen Systems (www.evergreensys.com) performed to develop a roadmap and ROI to achieve their objectives.
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey throu...dylandmeas
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey through Full Sail University. Below, you’ll find a collection of my work showcasing my skills and expertise in digital marketing, event planning, and media production.
Cracking the Workplace Discipline Code Main.pptxWorkforce Group
Cultivating and maintaining discipline within teams is a critical differentiator for successful organisations.
Forward-thinking leaders and business managers understand the impact that discipline has on organisational success. A disciplined workforce operates with clarity, focus, and a shared understanding of expectations, ultimately driving better results, optimising productivity, and facilitating seamless collaboration.
Although discipline is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it can help create a work environment that encourages personal growth and accountability rather than solely relying on punitive measures.
In this deck, you will learn the significance of workplace discipline for organisational success. You’ll also learn
• Four (4) workplace discipline methods you should consider
• The best and most practical approach to implementing workplace discipline.
• Three (3) key tips to maintain a disciplined workplace.
What are the main advantages of using HR recruiter services.pdfHumanResourceDimensi1
HR recruiter services offer top talents to companies according to their specific needs. They handle all recruitment tasks from job posting to onboarding and help companies concentrate on their business growth. With their expertise and years of experience, they streamline the hiring process and save time and resources for the company.
RMD24 | Debunking the non-endemic revenue myth Marvin Vacquier Droop | First ...BBPMedia1
Marvin neemt je in deze presentatie mee in de voordelen van non-endemic advertising op retail media netwerken. Hij brengt ook de uitdagingen in beeld die de markt op dit moment heeft op het gebied van retail media voor niet-leveranciers.
Retail media wordt gezien als het nieuwe advertising-medium en ook mediabureaus richten massaal retail media-afdelingen op. Merken die niet in de betreffende winkel liggen staan ook nog niet in de rij om op de retail media netwerken te adverteren. Marvin belicht de uitdagingen die er zijn om echt aansluiting te vinden op die markt van non-endemic advertising.
Unveiling the Secrets How Does Generative AI Work.pdfSam H
At its core, generative artificial intelligence relies on the concept of generative models, which serve as engines that churn out entirely new data resembling their training data. It is like a sculptor who has studied so many forms found in nature and then uses this knowledge to create sculptures from his imagination that have never been seen before anywhere else. If taken to cyberspace, gans work almost the same way.
Taurus Zodiac Sign_ Personality Traits and Sign Dates.pptxmy Pandit
Explore the world of the Taurus zodiac sign. Learn about their stability, determination, and appreciation for beauty. Discover how Taureans' grounded nature and hardworking mindset define their unique personality.
Explore our most comprehensive guide on lookback analysis at SafePaaS, covering access governance and how it can transform modern ERP audits. Browse now!
Enterprise Excellence is Inclusive Excellence.pdfKaiNexus
Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
Dr. William Harvey is a seasoned Operations Leader with extensive experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, and operations management. At Michelman, he currently oversees multiple sites, leading teams in strategic planning and coaching/practicing continuous improvement. William is set to start his eighth year of teaching at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches marketing, finance, and management. William holds various certifications in change management, quality, leadership, operational excellence, team building, and DiSC, among others.
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It is crucial for the taxpayers to understand about the TDS Return Filing Due Date, so that they can fulfill your TDS obligations efficiently. Taxpayers can avoid penalties by sticking to the deadlines and by accurate filing of TDS. Timely filing of TDS will make sure about the availability of tax credits. You can also seek the professional guidance of experts like Legal Pillers for timely filing of the TDS Return.
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Speaker Bios
DON CASSON, CEO,
EVERGREEN SYSTEMS
Don has led Evergreen
Systems since its founding in
1997. Over the years he has
spoken at conferences,
authored white papers and
been interviewed for
numerous industry
periodicals.
Contact:
dcasson@evergreensys.com
JEFF BENEDICT, ITSM PRACTICE
MANAGER, EVERGREEN
SYSTEMS
Jeff manages the ITSM practice
at Evergreen and has worked
with ITSM tools for 15+ years.
Jeff is an active contributor to
the Evergreen Blog and Twitter.
(twitter.com/JeffSBenedict)
Contact:
jeff.benedict@evergreensys.com
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Today’s Agenda
• About Evergreen
• CMDB’s Strategic Role in IT Services
• Evergreen’s Self-Service Catalog & Portal (built
on ServiceNow)
• Possible Next Steps / Q&A
4. • 80-person U.S. IT Consulting Firm
• Worked with hundreds of Mid-Market,
Fortune 1000 Companies and Public Sector
Organizations
• Full lifecycle firm with deep ITSM / ITIL
transformation experience
• One of Top 5 ServiceNow U.S. partners
• Primary Focus – “Customer-Centric IT
Service Management”
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About Evergreen Systems
Sample ClientsQuick Facts
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Traditional ITSM – Where’s the Customer?
Incident
Change
Problem
Knowledge
Self Service Catalog &
Portal
Here I am!
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Start With the Customer – Change What You Do
Self Service Catalog
& Portal
Change
Problem
Knowledge
Incident
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Useful Grounding
Service Owner. A role which is accountable for the delivery of
a specific IT Service.
Configuration Item (CI). Any component that needs to be
managed in order to deliver an IT Service. CIs typically
include services, software, hardware, people and
documentation.
Configuration Management. The Process responsible for
maintaining information about Configuration Items (CIs)
required to deliver an IT Service.
CMDB. A database used to store Configuration Records
throughout their lifecycle. Each CMDB stores attributes and
relationships of CIs.
ITIL def…
8. Why Have CMDBs Not Delivered Value?
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• A solution in search
of a problem
• Lack of best
practices
• Got lost in the
details
• No clear purpose
means no
consistency
9. Why Have CMDBs Not Delivered Value?
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• Poor & contradictory data sources
• Big bang versus iterative approach
• Poor technology & moving target caused
by virtualization / cloud
10. What Is Different Now?
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• CEO desire for
employee
“Amazon like”
experience
• Pressure of the
DevOps cycle
• Shared Services
opportunity for IT
11. What Is Different Now?
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• IT’s role as Service Provider / Broker
vs. Technology Provider
• Emergence of services over
technical activities
• Emerging role of Service Owner
Request Outcome
12. Why Does This Make CMDB Essential?
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• Supports modular, reusable services
• Enables end to end service delivery &
ownership
• Bill of IT in a customer-valuable way
• Makes variable Service Offerings possible
• Supports KPIs the customer cares about
• Provides true top to bottom service
visibility
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Supports Modular, Reusable Services
Build reusable service
modules
Combine them to
create new services
Manage each service
as a configuration
item (CI) to give you
accountability
A SERVICE
SILO
SILO
SILO
SILO
SILOSvc
Svc
Svc
Svc
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14. Configuration Management Benefits
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• Manage each service or sub-service as a
configuration item (CI)
• Drives service consistency, accuracy, efficiency,
agility, reuse
• Promotes customer alignment end to end
• Drives 80/20 thinking down into IT
• Enables manageability, measurability & change
• Improves ability to “think globally, act locally”
18. Supports KPIs the Customer Cares About
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Customer
Service Owner
Service Provider
Service Provider
Service Provider
Service Provider
Service Provider
Service Provider
Great Customer experience
On time delivery
Available & fast when I need it
Measure Customer satisfaction
Consistently set & meet delivery
expectations
Service availability
Consistently set & meet delivery
expectations
Service availability
SLAs
OLAs
Continuous
Improvement
KPIs
19. Provides True Top to Bottom Service Visibility
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Con-
sumer
SvcSvc
Svc
Svc
Svc
Svc
Con-
sumer
Svc
Application
Service CIs
Consumption
Mapped
Discovered
Infrastructure
Customer
20. Keys to Repurposing the CMDB
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Pilot the Thinking…
• BAD CMDB
• Begin top down with a few key services
• Assign Service Owners
• Roll KPIs / SLAs up and down
• Create a pilot Service Owner’s “workspace” – for
real time service management
23. One-Day,
Private Service
Catalog Workshop
$3,950
Demo our “Metro
Style” Self Service
Catalog & Portal
yourself!
Possible Next Steps?
http://www.evergreensys.com
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See how our graphical
Service Taxonomy
Designer works
If you are new to our webinar series, welcome. If you are a past attendee thanks for joining us again. Our goal is to share valuable information & insights you can use in your planning and activities right now. The topic we will explore today is, CMDB’s strategic role in IT Services. This is the first time in our series we have focused directly on the CMDB and its role. I think it is resonating with you as there are nearly 300 registered.
Here is our agenda-
After a very little bit about Evergreen, we will dive into our topic today.
Beyond that we will briefly demonstrate some of the concepts we will discuss in our always evolving view of a very advanced, self-service catalog & portal experience, built on ServiceNow.
Then we will answer some questions if you have any. At any time during the webinar you may submit a question using the Q&A function.
Evergreen is a US based consulting firm and we have worked with hundreds of mid market, Fortune 1000 companies and public sector organizations to improve their IT Service Management execution.
We are a full lifecycle firm, or in the words of one customer, “you have both process and technology in one company.”
We are one of the top 5 US ServiceNow partners and have over a decade of domain experience in each area of the ServiceNow portfolio, but we view all of this from a perspective of customer centric IT Service Mgmt.
At Evergreen we think Traditional ITSM thinking is just plain wrong, because it puts the customer – the people we are really doing this for – last! Hard to believe but true. In most cases it takes a couple of years to even think about the customer.
How can this possibly happen?
First – we have walls around our thinking we don’t even see. This is how its always been done – so we don’t think to challenge it.
Second – we don’t know how to put the customer first. What does the customer want? What are the best practices? How do we build it? So we put it in phase 3.
Third – we DO know traditional Incident – Change – Problem etc best practices REALLY well – so we do what we’re comfortable with.
Unfortunately, its wrong.
We need to start with the customer. The customer should get a BIG WIN in phase 1. Both the technology & best practices CAN support it.
Best of all, if we start with the customer, it will change what we do. Here are a few examples:
In Incident – rather than thinking about how to handle Incidents, we will focus instead on how to eliminate or prevent the customer from having to contact us in the first place. How can we automate or eliminate the top 5-10 causes of Incidents / Requests?
In Change Mgmt. – rather than always thinking about managing change – instead we will think about how to eliminate or streamline changes – to minimize impact & speed to react to customers needs.
Knowledge becomes Search & Learn – a place for powerful, social self enablement – rather than just a tired afterthought.
Start with the customer and it changes what you do!
Let’s get started! As we often do, covering a few ITIL definitions are useful for getting us all on the same page.
Four are relevant today – Service Owner, Configuration Item, Configuration Mgmt. and CMDB.
The Service Owner is the person who owns / is responsible for delivery of a specific service. Now you could say that’s easy – if I am the person who provisions the database, then that is my service and I control it, simple! But what if that is just one element of delivering a complete computing capability in support of a critical application? Who owns that compound service?
A Configuration Item or CI is a managed component. Its not just technology, it can be a process, documentation or even people. It is anything we want to track, account for and manage over time.
Configuration Mgmt is a process that maintains accurate information about “things” that are used to deliver IT services. The natural extension is that we need to know we can rely on those things to be ready and right, when we need to deliver an IT Service.
The CMDB is simply a place where we store this data over time, and how it relates to other data (Cis).
This question is like the popular cocktail party question in Silicon Valley in the early 90s – Why did Apple fail? That question got answered.
So why has the CMDB failed? The reasons are important if we don’t want to make the same mistakes again. The biggest reason by far is – it was a solution in search of a problem. As we often see in IT – we are really good at doing. We tackle big complex things and wrestle them to the ground in a large scale way. But we aren’t really good at asking why, or how will this be used? Does that make sense? and what is the least we can do rather than the most? Even though ITIL defined CMDB – there weren't really any best practices for how to SUCCEED with the CMDB – so we were on our own. The amount of detail we began to capture was massive and we got lost in it. Then – as we involved others in the effort – since we didn’t know why we were collecting the data – we lacked purpose we could share with others to help us all do the same thing.
It is also fair to say that there was plenty of devil in the detail. Data sources were all over the map – inconsistent, inaccurate, duplicative and contradictory. Our Big Bang approach to collecting and storing ALL the data didn’t help either. Last, I think it is fair to say that manually maintained CMDBs at any other than the highest, most simple levels are not sustainable and shift constantly in a virtualized / cloud future. Without really good application discovery technology, it’s just not viable.
The fact that we haven’t been successful with configuration mgmt. doesn’t mean it is getting less important. Just the opposite. CEOs are asking, maybe demanding an Amazon like employee experience of IT – which as you know is a beautiful, complete self SERVICE experience end to end. The DevOps ”revolution” is coming to all of us or our companies simply won’t be competitive. In 2014 Amazon made over 400 changes to the world’s largest data center. Twilio – a voice to digital SaaS provider with over 4 million transactions daily, makes 20-25 changes to production…every day. I would not want to compete with them.
Last – an opportunity! IT is being asked by the CEO / COO to include the shared services parts of the organization in the Amazon like experience – this is a chance for IT to raise it’s visibility and value across the enterprise, and CIOs want to take advantage of it.
Here are a few more. Innovative IT organizations are truly beginning to understand that their value is in delivering what the customer needs and wants in a high quality experience that meets the customer’s expectations. But they don’t actually have to provide the technology solution, because the customer doesn’t care about that. This in turn is leading IT to focus on true services rather than technical outcomes – which is fueling the emergence of the role of the Service Owner. Someone who owns the outcome the customer really wants – end to end.
The differences now make the CMDB essential. Here are 6 foundational elements only the CMDB can bring to the delivery of IT Services.
Modular & reusable End to end True cost of service Variable offerings KPIs the customer cares about and Top to bottom visibility
Let’s look at each of these.
We want to build modular services, and manage them as configuration items (Cis)
It is important to apply a building block mentality to constructing services, then combine the blocks to create new services and variations of existing ones. If all your services are single threaded, custom built – they will be very expensive to create, impossible to maintain, and confusing to your customer. Think about Amazon – what would it be like if every Amazon department had its own checkout procedure?
But this idea has its own challenges too – each service module, say “financial approval process” could be used in hundreds of services. So service Configuration Management is mandatory, with each service being managed as a configuration item (CI), and mapped into any combined services of which it is a part.
Here are the benefits from using configuration management to manage services. First and foremost – it gives us factory like benefits of consistency, quality, accuracy, and reuse.
It gives us agility because we can much more easily and simply create new services.
It helps everyone involved to better see their role end to end and relation to their neighbors.
It gets us thinking about what are the 4-5 things we deliver 80% of the time – then improving, streamlining, simplifying and automating them.
And it helps us think globally and act locally – a huge challenge for large and diverse organizations. Here’s an example. Let’s say we have a global service like e mail that we want everyone to use, but we also have companies in other continents that need certain localized features – what do we do? In a modular fashion – they can use 80% of the core offering the same way we do, ands perhaps create a few specific components that meet their localized need – and we are all still on the same page for 80% - much better than different e mail systems for each country!
Every service we deliver is made up of lots of little services. And even though one person, say John Smith, owns the “big” service, there are lots of little services being combined from different parts of IT to make up the big service. This is part of what scares John because he doesn’t control those people, they don’t actually work for him, so how can he possibly be successful? He begins explaining to everyone delivering services to him how important they are, how they fit into the big scheme and what the customer really wants. John creates meaningful mission alignment, because just mechanically doing a task is not very emotionally fulfilling, but helping a customer as part of the team – that is! And every day John will work with everyone – giving feedback, helping them improve, streamlining, encouraging the effort – and making sure they see their part in the big picture.
How does the CMDB help John? It provides the detail in each subservice – availability, time to provision, quality of service, service issue resolution and service outage restoration that allow John to “see” his service end to end, fix it when its broken and continually improve it for the customer.
Most IT organizations are at a very low maturity level when it comes to IT costing. This prevents IT from driving customer choice or participating in the fundamental conversation of business – cost / benefit tradeoffs. As we move to IT services – IT organizations are beginning to see this as mandatory rather than nice to have. Whether we actually get cost reimbursement, or just do showback costing - it still affects behavior - creating better customer understanding and decision making. Just as importantly, it allows US to create standard, bundled, happy meal offerings around the 4-5 activities we do most of the time – represented by the little orange services on the left hand side. In this way we simplify the customers decision making AND the work of IT. The CMDB? Can’t be done without it.
As we move up the maturity scale in service offering creation, we are now able to offer variable service offerings – allowing the customer self service flexibility to configure a service to their particular cost / benefit mix. While not every service has this flexibility, for example SAP might be too strategically critical to have a “Silver” version offered, the CMDB with the CI service components allows us to “see” which service combinations can be created to yield variable service offerings, and which cannot.
KPIs cascade down in a pyramid –from the customer, to the service owner, to the Service Providers. KPIs become SLAs and SLAs become OLAs as we go down the pyramid. And all the OLAs roll up into the SLAs which deliver the KPIs. Then working as a team, we continuously seek to improve our service delivery as well as the measures of our success, helped with visible alignment to the customer.
With the CMDB supporting modular reusable sub-services, we can even trial build “prospective” services – a service we might want to offer, and look at what the performance & delivery might look like end to end by adding up the sub service SLAs / OLAs around delivery times, performance….and even COST!!!
A lot of what we did traditionally in CMDB was below the double line in the middle – the hardware and software technology components and their relationships to each other. For our purposes today I am calling this the discovered infrastructure. Above the line are the Services. A Service usually consists of people, processes, descriptions, functionality, options and service commitments as well as technology underpinnings. Most of what makes up a Service CI can’t be discovered. But that may not be a huge problem because a service isn't as hard to track as moving technology like a virtualized server. You can see that each orange service above is consumed by some customer – that customer may be another service, or it may be the actual end customer – it doesn’t matter. One of our general principles is, ”Everyone has customers, everyone has services.” It is relatively easy as a service owner to add and track consumers of your service, as well as adding / tracking the sub services you consume to deliver your service. This makes it pretty easy to “discover” your services map in the CMDB. For the example above – the dotted lines going down on the left and right side show our “service” top to bottom.
I hope we have made it clear that delivering IT Services is impossible without Configuration Mgmt and the CMDB. Now that CMDB has a true, strategic mission – what do we do next? Sounds like a good webinar topic huh? For now though, we can offer some high level guidance in repurposing the CMDB.
Pilot your thinking. You will be experimenting with some new ideas & concepts – so keep it safe for learning.
Recognize that the term CMBD is BAD. I suggest using the term Configuration Management – a euphemism for sure – but you need a fresh term where you can “define” it for the organization and it doesn’t carry a pre-labeled negative connotation.
As you experiment begin top down with 3-4 key services and map the pieces at a high level – down to the applications that support the services, but don’t get lost in the noise below that.
Assign Service Owners for the 3-4 pilot services – no risk – just to get a feel for the pieces that make up a service and the expectations around delivery. Identify the sub service “owners” and include them in the pilot activities.
Once that is done, it’s not too hard to roll up and down the KPIs / SLAs for each service / sub service and see what they look like linked end to end.
Last – if you can do it, try creating a Service Owner’s workspace – the place where they go to manage their service.
Here’s is a quick look at the Service Owner workspace we have been developing. The idea behind it is to make it the one place where the Service Owner goes to reactively AND proactively manage their service. Today it includes information on customer satisfaction, service quality, service availability and service delivery. We are working to add proactive measures like the ability to respond to customer feedback, propose changes to the service here – that then go thru change control, and to be able to update and enhance features and options directly.
That’s it for our presentation today – I will now turn it over to Jeff where he will demo some of these concepts in action.
If you found this interesting and wonder what might be a logical next step, here are a few options.
If you are interested in our advanced Self-Service Catalog & Portal, it is now available as a self-service demo. You can get your own login on our website – follow the front page banner.
If you are looking for a better way to organize and categorize services – you can access a short demo video of our Service Taxonomy Mind Map application on our website.
Or perhaps you are considering a broader Service Catalog initiative but aren’t sure where to start. Evergreen offers a one day, private Service Catalog Workshop on your site for up to 15 attendees. It is designed to educate your team, uncover key business drivers & roadblocks, and create a common language and direction - to get your team on the same page. You can literally save months of effort in consensus building and get your program moving. We feel like it’s a real value at less than 4 thousand dollars, including travel.