ITSM / ITIL Services

 

 
     
 
 
 

 

 

 

ITSM / ITIL Consulting Services

 

Reducing IT costs…improving service quality…through ITIL Best Practices

 

Effective IT Service Management is built on integrating people, processes, and technology into a well-designed system based on best industry practices.  The goal is to achieve efficient and effective IT operations by standardizing tools and integrating service and delivery processes.  To accomplish this, TechnoLava works closely with clients to identify existing gaps in their Service Management capabilities.

 

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of guidance developed by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) that has been adopted worldwide as an integrated, process based, best practice framework for managing IT services.

 

TechnoLava professionals can assist you to go from the theory in the ITIL books to the practice of implementing an IT Service Management Solution.  Utilizing the ITIL/ITSM framework, we work to meld people, process, and tools to continue to meet and exceed customer expectations.  The ITIL philosophy adopts a process driven approach that is scalable to fit both large and small IT organizations and may be implemented in a phased approach to meet the requirements of the organization.

 

Through our collective experience, we have developed a body of knowledge and a proven methodical approach that ensures our projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within approved budgets. Through structured interviews, staff surveys, workshops and Rapid Deployment sessions, TechnoLava can provide organizations with:

 

  • ITSM strategy and implementation road maps.

  • Detailed definitions of ITIL processes.

  • Defined roles and responsibilities.

  • Governance models (i.e., defined policies, processes, and workflow).

  • Implementation and support strategies, including methods for design, delivery, support, communication, and training.

  • Technology implementation services and support.

  • ITIL training and knowledge transfer.

 

IT Service Management Assessment

The IT Service Management Assessment is designed to perform an objective review of your Service Support and Service Delivery processes.  TechnoLava will assess your present service management capabilities to define a benchmark of your "as-is" situation and to identify the areas most in need of improvement in order to realize your management goals and objectives. Examples of assessment services:

 

  • Assessment of how well customer expectations are met by your current service portfolio

  • Assessment of the maturity of one or more services or ITIL processes

  • Assessment and selection of high-priority processes for improvement

  • Assessment of your current processes for adherence to ITIL

 

The outcome of the assessment will define and prioritize a set of one or more projects that will allow your organization to realize the intent of ITIL: align your IT with business requirements, improve service quality and lower the long-term cost of IT service provision.

 

IT Service Management Strategy

In order for IT to meet the needs of the business, you first need to determine what your current and future needs are and then define an IT Service Management Strategy to implement selected solutions that are designed to achieve desired objectives.

 

TechnoLava Consultants will work with your IT Executive Team to examine the key elements of strategy and the choices that should be made to define your unique IT Strategy.

 

  • Choices must be made about the services that will be offered and also about those that will not.

  • Choices of what services the customers want, need, and value.

  • The chosen portfolio of services will determine the corresponding capabilities that are required and the characteristics of the processes, organization, and technologies necessary to deliver those services.

  • The style and nature of the relationship between the business and the IT service provider must be established.

  • Consideration for the way in which the services are to be sourced, delivered, and managed.

  • The value proposition for the chosen services must be developed.

 

Process Development and Implementation

This customized service helps you design, build, integrate, manage and evolve your IT processes to meet your specific business and IT needs.  Without effective processes, organizations will not realize their return on investment in technology.  Technology alone does not guarantee success.

 

Process development will design effective and efficient processes that meet your business needs.  ITIL processes can be challenging to existing departments and individuals as they impose new business rules to already established technical environments.  Many organizations underestimate the scale and scope of process improvement projects and the resources and expertise required to be successful.

 

IT Service Management Solution Design

TechnoLava’s solution design services are designed to verify that the logical or high-level design puts sufficient consideration into the integration of the organizational issues and process considerations with the technology customization and tool selection. TechnoLava Consultants will assist you in defining your IT management model as the foundation for effective process implementations. Following that activity, you will be led through the development of your guiding principles and then the process, organization and technology logical model.

 

TechnoLava Consultants will facilitate the design of the process-based solutions with your process team. They use ITIL and other models, when required to fill in gaps or provide alternate approaches, to design process solutions that meet your requirements. The process solutions are documented in a standard format called a Process Reference and consist of process flows, activities, policies, and roles. These activities and the solutions that evolve from them set commonly developed goals and expectations that help create a path to success.

 

IT Service Management Solution Deployment

During solution deployment, you will develop the detailed workflow narratives and document the measures, metrics and user interface requirements for your service management tool suite. During the solution design phase, high level generic roles are defined. These form the basis for defining jobs, staffing levels, skill gap analysis, training, and recruitment plans. Then the tools are developed or customized, user guides are produced, staff members are acquired and trained and the pilot is planned.

 

The full deployment is successful due to the careful planning, design and development that preceded it. Preparation is the key to success when changing IT management from its current state to ITIL best practices.

 

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT and CMDB ASSESSMENT

TechnoLava's CMDB engagement is designed to take an organization's inventory, assets, problem, incident and change management processes and systems to the next level of organizational efficiency by delivering policies, processes and disciplines for effectively identifying, controlling, auditing and managing configuration data. The project is designed to create and capitalize on a global ITAM lifecycle processes and yield an integrated CMDB with both tactical and strategic organizational benefits. Strategically the project is designed to deliver:

 

  • Business Value Alignment

  • Organizational Readiness

  • Policy and Process Compliance

  • Technology Enablement

  • Standards and Governance

 

Tactically the TechnoLava CMDB engagement focuses on the configuration management process, the actual CMDB database and Configuration Management Automation (CMA).

 

IT Asset Management (ITAM) Engagement

IT Asset Management (ITAM) establishes a lifecycle management process for all IT assets, managing a company's IT hardware, software and license assets. Asset Management, an ITAM (Information Technology Asset Management) discipline, still provides the basis for important ITIL processes like service level and configuration management and is required for service catalog and CMDB development.

 

Asset management projects are oftentimes triggered by events that highlight an organization's lack of information about their assets, such as data center moves or expansion, failed audits, overhaul of procurement processes, large inventories, or organizational restructuring.

 

TechnoLava's Asset Management engagement starts by developing quantifiable financial benefits that may be used for calculating ROI including:

 

  • Consolidating maintenance management for different hardware classes.

  • Eliminating/retiring unused or underused software/hardware products.

  • Retrieving software licenses from retired hardware.

  • Saved dollars on storage, maintenance and taxes on unused hardware.

 

An asset management engagement also accounts for other non-quantifiable but important benefits, including the reduction of security threats (through having the capacity to track all information technology devices that could contain sensitive information) and mitigation of potentially damaging legal issues, such as security, intellectual property and licensing compliance breaches, as well as regulatory concerns.

 

ITIL Process Workshops

TechnoLava Workshops are focused on promoting ITIL and its benefits across all levels of the organization.  In our private workshops, TechnoLava can tailor ITIL education programs specific to executives, managers or staff and their respective task and mission.  These custom workshops can be designed to provide an introductory overview of the ITIL and its operational benefits, or focused on the application of a specific ITIL element to improve a critical IT business process.  Our ITSM Process Implementation workshops enable IT organizations to acquire the “how to” skills to assess, plan, design, implement and operate an ITSM program.

 

ITSM Training Services

When you embark upon a mission to change your organization you want experience, consistency, quality, and rapid results. The Open itSM Solutions training portfolio enables enterprise clients to acquire the skills and certifications to:

 

  • Create actionable ITSM plans using well accepted best practice frameworks, methods and standards

  • Integrate these plans into a multi-source IT service delivery environment

  • Operate as a service provider into the enterprise or mission value chain

 

Our training methodology involves the student from both a “knowing” and “doing” perspective, letting them learn and practice the what, where, when and "how to" of ITIL design, implementation and operations.