An organization is drafting a plan to achieve its strategic goals and is ensuring that they consider the involvement of all appropriate stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
Which guiding principle are they applying?
The IT organization of a large company has an existing improvement programme. Individual IT divisions have fully embraced continual improvement. The business has seen areas of improved performance, but the improvements do not last long.
Which action BEST maintains long-term improvement?
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
When planning a new service, which three factors should be considered when defining the value that the service will create?
A small service provider is experiencing growth and success. Currently, all important decisions are made by a small executive group. This creates delays because some members of the group are often unavailable.
Which is the BEST approach for establishing an authority structure for decision-making within the service provider organization?
What is the difference between a policy and a control?
An internal service provider is creating a business case to justify the purchase of a new service management toolset. The business case includes several options from multiple vendors.
Which is MOST important to include in the business case?
The manager of a team of highly skilled professionals often handles challenging problems personally in an effort to demonstrate expertise.
Which TWO are the MOST LIKELY consequences of this behaviour?
Decisions take longer
Employee morale improves
Decisions are made quickly
Employee morale suffers
A service provider is implementing a new self-service portal for users to request access to IT services. The portal will be made available to 5000 users across 50 sites.
Which is the BEST guidance for producing guidelines for users of the self-service portal?
An organization has IT divisions distributed globally. As the organization has grown, it has become difficult to align the activities of the IT divisions with the organization's objectives.
How can the organization ensure that all IT activities are aligned with the organization's objectives?
A service provider has experienced a number of problems with their cloud storage service that have caused service outages. Problem management has successfully identified the cause of each incident, but further improvements to the service are considered necessary.
Which is the BEST example of using the 'continual improvement model' to guide improvements to the service?
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?