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IT Service Management Rapid Review Assessment 
One of the biggest challenges to every IT executive is the determination of where and how much to invest in IT.
Most IT installations are intended to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of an organization's processes, products and services. It is safe to say that the costs to maintain these installations are coming under increasing pressure every day. Maintenance and service reliability costs impact the total-cost-of-ownership and efficiency of an operation at the same time.

Understanding the reliability of a product can help an enterprise choose the correct product and/or maintenance contract, improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Many organizations collect enough data to monitor the performance of their break-fix vendors as to the service level agreement (e.g., arrival of a technician on site) but often miss significant amounts of information relating to service events placed by the equipment through a call-home function, or to manage the service performance to establish if the first technician on site could fix the problem, or if the problem was repaired in a reasonable period of time.

On-Site Expertise Delivery

Our affordable, fixed-price IT Service Management Rapid Review Assessment provides an assessment and evaluation of the help desk/service desk and the effectiveness of the service management process. We look at the linkage between incoming calls and the information loop that follows as it relates to reliability and stability of all IT hardware products.

The analysis and data can be used immediately to pin-point operational problems, evaluate compliance with vendor and help desk service level agreements (SLAs), and reveal differences between deployed products.

Description

The IT Service Management Rapid Review Assessment provides a fast and efficient assessment and evaluation of the current IT hardware maintenance environment that cover the following:

  • An assessment and evaluation of the current IT service management environment, and monitoring process capabilities
  • A gap analysis comparing your IT service management process and cost control practices/processes to best practices
  • Recommendations for improvement

Our Experts have experience in working with both large and small enterprises to achieve the maximum benefits of their IT organization. We have assisted our clients in developing service management practices and processes as well as in the implementation of the those newly developed practices and process. Our team also has experience in performing service management benchmarks for cost comparative purposes.

We team with our clients to develop the assessment based on their goals and business requirements, and educate their team in the process. We believe that this is important so our clients can take ownership for the recommendations, and are capable of making continual adjustments to the recommendations as changing business needs demand.

Deliverables

Standard

This service offering delivers the following:

  • An assessment and evaluation of the current IT service management environment and its related supporting practices/processes
  • A gap analysis comparing the IT service management practices/processes to best practices
  • Recommendations for improvement

Our Experts will deliver a summary report that includes the above deliverables, and present the findings to our client’s management.

Work effort may be conducted on-site or off-site as follows:

  • TAC will work with designated client IT staff to gather the information for review.
  • Work effort is limited to two days for data gathering, one day for analysis, and one day for an interactive presentation of findings and recommendations.
  • TAC assumes client has a readily available application inventory, and will send to TAC within two business days upon request.
  • We also assume that selected IT and user staff are available for completing our assessment and for interviews.
  • TAC will present findings and recommendations within seven business days after receipt of all information from the client, and will present to senior management of the client’s choosing.

Optional

In addition to the deliverables listed above, we can assist clients in a more detailed full service management assessment and help implement the approved initiatives.

Target Audience

CIO, COO, CEO, CFO
IT executives and senior management who are responsible for service management and service support across the enterprise.

About TAC (The Advisory Council)

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, TAC (The Advisory Council) brings its unique Expertise-as-a-Service® (EaaS™), the next logical step in the XaaS revolution, to the enterprise. The EaaS solution-delivery model gives clients access to TAC’s wide array of services, tools and workshops designed to help CIOs and IT managers reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase IT’s stature in the boardroom. EaaS leverages TAC’s Expert Network, consisting of hundreds of Experts, covering the full range of IT and related business subjects. TAC clients include Fortune 1000 and midsize companies, governments, health-care and educational institutions.

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