A service provider is improving its 'service desk' practice and has established the success factor:“improved user satisfaction with the service desk.”
Which is the BEST key performance indicator for measuring this?
A project team recently delivered a new service on time and to specification. However, the team encountered a number of issues during the project that resulted in an increase in the resources utilized. The project is about to close and the project team will immediately move on to the next project.
Which is the BEST way to avoid similar issues in the future?
In an organization, a service desk team employs experienced staff who have worked there for many years and have good relationships with support teams. The organization has a good improvement culture, and staff are encouraged to use their experience and identify improvements. They are developing a new policy for handling incidents.
Which is the BEST approach for this new policy?
A legacy financial system requires the user to manually enter the time and date of transactions to meet regulatory requirements. A recent internal audit has shown that these fields are often blank.
Which are TWO effective controls that could improve compliance?
Modify the application to automatically add the current date and time when a transaction is entered
Establish a communication plan to remind users of the importance of including the date and time on transactions
Develop a goals cascade so that all staff know their role in achieving company goals
Create a report showing non-compliant records and take appropriate action to correct them
An organization recently established a continual improvement team to promote and enable continual improvement throughout the SVS. The members of the team are discussing the team's role in continual improvement across the organization.
Which is the BEST description of the team's role in this situation?
An internet service provider has recently acquired a smaller competitor and has performed an analysis of internal and external factors affecting both companies. The competitor was acquired because of their popularity in the market due to excellent service levels. The management are about to integrate the staff and practices of the two organizations and would like to ensure that this is successful.
Which assessment method is BEST for them to adopt?
An organization uses an external service provider to develop and support a critical application. They have asked the supplier to make improvements as users have been complaining that the application is difficult to use.
What would be a suitable SMART KPI for measuring this improvement?
What is the difference between a policy and a control?
An organization has determined that a significant percentage of incidents have delayed resolutions because they are escalated to the wrong team, and need to be reassigned before they can be resolved. They plan to improve the flow of work by improving the accuracy of incident escalation.
What is this an example of?
An organization is making a major improvement to how they create and deliver IT services. They need to collect feedback about what issues staff have with the improvement.
Which is an appropriate method for this?
An organization is mapping a value stream for an IT service. In the current map, the same activity is repeated multiple times. When identifying opportunities to remove waste from the value streams, it has been determined that several days could be removed from the delivery time by eliminating repeated work.
What is this an example of?
An organization is transitioning to a new customer relationship management (CRM) system with the aim of expanding its customer base and increasing customer retention. The new cloud-based system will be used both internally and by an outsourced call centre. This high-cost, high-priority initiative has many critics who are concerned with lack of resources.
Which stakeholder’s support for this initiative is MOST needed to obtain necessary resources and overcome concerns?