Service Desk: Head up in the Clouds?

This is a very practical webinar that will include the need for metrics and the pitfalls to be avoided in the use of measurements and metrics. This will explain some of the methods and techniques used to produce measurements and metrics and will include some examples of both their successful use and unsuccessful use.

This webinar will be invaluable to anyone involved in the planning, production or interpretation of measurement and metric reports.

As organisations seek to improve the quality of IT services, perhaps through SIAM or cloud provisioning, the traditional SLA targets and performance measures we hold dear are no longer appropriate.

This talk will look at the common pitfalls and make some recommendations as to measures which will drive the correct behaviours in your internal and external support teams.

“Running IT as a business” is a popular thing to say, but what does it really mean to IT organizations? What are the critical things that IT organizations must do in order to run as a business? How is this different than what IT organizations are doing today?

In this session, Doug Tedder discusses the seven things IT organizations must do to run IT as a business.

Cloud…outsourcing…Platform as a Service…all of these could make IT irrelevant, so how do you prevent this? By providing value every day and by running IT as a Business. Great catch-phrase, but what does it mean? In a nutshell: knowing the services IT is providing, what they cost to operate and whether they provide value, and by staying on the cutting edge of technology even with todays fast pace of change, so that the business you support remains competitive. This webinar addresses the basic building blocks you need to run like a business: defining services and offerings, layering in financial management and charge-backs/show-backs so you understand the costs of these offerings and how to pull it all together in a way that helps you run as a business does, even if it’s only on paper.

Rob Akershoek, Solutions Architect at Shell and part of the IT4IT Forum, discuss the challenges and opportunities of running IT as a business. Running IT as a business is more than finances and cutting cost – it’s about IT quality.

The demands of current business of technology mean that IT professionals must develop a broad set of skills and competencies. These include a broad variety of capabilities for communications, personal interaction and good business skills. With more potential automation the scope for human interaction is reduced and this also means that actual interactions between people must be excellent.



IT organisations must similarly ensure that they are operating with clear business priorities and capabilities – perhaps not running as a business (unless of course they are a business) but certainly using business skills and techniques.

This session looks at the new IT professional and IT organisation and how it needs to work more using business skills.

Today, simply meeting the service commitments of the business consistently may no longer be considered enough.

Your business customers will over time have an expectation of increasing ‘value’ from their investment in the IT services you provide.

Continual Service Improvement (CSI) provides an opportunity to exploit the insight, knowledge and skills of your people to identify and drive improvements to your IT services that add value to the customer and begin to positively influence their perception of getting value for money from their IT service provider.

However, there is no value in CSI if the improvements provided are not focused on what your customer considers important to them. Equally, if the CSI improvements are not communicated to your customer and explained in a way that demonstrates tangible business value then this is a missed opportunity to demonstrate value and enhance customer satisfaction.

In this session, we explore the essential ‘CSI Building Blocks’ required to ensure that CSI becomes a core capability for the IT service provider to demonstrate value for money from the IT services provided to their customers.

This session will provide learning and guidance on:-
The importance of demonstrating value to ensure commercial success….and the challenge for the IT Service Provider
Understanding the concepts & characteristics of ‘value ‘
Understanding how CSI can provide ‘Value Add’ and positively influence customer perception of value for money
The essential ‘Building Blocks ‘ to enable CSI as an approach demonstrate the value provided from the IT Service providers people and capabilities

The ‘CSI Building Blocks’ include the need to apply ‘Outside In’ thinking to your ITSM strategy, understanding the importance of purpose and contribution in motivating your people to drive CSI in the workplace, the importance of business measures to convey business value and the importance of a ‘target and tailor’ approach to customer communications.

Continual Service Improvements and minimizing the impact of Major Incident Management are critical to keeping your business running smoothly and out of the nightly news headlines.

This webinar, presented by ITSM process expert Ryan Schmierer and IT Service Management technology expert Mike Bombard will explore the role technology capabilities and process improvement can play to improve outcomes.

Ryan and Mike will discuss lessons learned from a major healthcare company case study and the challenges this company faced in managing major incidents. They will provide 5 things you can do today to improve major incident management and will discuss how by leveraging capabilities from discovery and infrastructure visualization tools will help your staff gain the insights they need to resolve issues quickly and continually make better-informed decisions.

It is increasingly accepted that an organization will deliver better services by agilely improving in a continual, incremental way. Our continual improvement maturity model, based on case studies of multiple organizations, provides a framework for addressing the issues specific to each team, for motivating team members and for providing management with an objective assessment of the progress being made by the organization.

Robert S. Falkowitz, General Manager of Concentric Circle Consulting, has over thirty years experience in information technology and service management. His focus over the past 15 years has been in coaching and training on the use of technology to manage services and the optimization of basic work practices, such as flow, using lean and kanban methods.

We have been saying 'people are our greatest asset' for eons. But have we really demonstrated it?

When organisations are undergoing change that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous and we need people to change at a velocity never known before, putting people first is an imperative.

If organisations don't do this they will very quickly cease to be relevant in this world of increasing disruption.

In this webinar, Karen Ferris and Daniel Breston discuss why the people side of change is so important and how the organisational change management landscape has changed.

Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice

For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:

- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they need it

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature 2 speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SACM Practice and Micro Focus Operations Bridge. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.
Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Bill Curran
Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice: For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:
- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they
need it

Speaker: Kulvinder Singh
Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge): The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

If you work in IT Service Management, you need to hear what James Finister has to say about monitoring and metrics tools and best practices.

James will answer questions about:
Why metrics and monitoring is so important
The opportunities they provide
What data to track so that you know the truth about the health of your IT service
How to monitor metrics to drive business value
Which data patterns are good - and which are bad

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert, which will be answered during the live session.

Integrate your SDLC Tools Quickly and Easily with Tasktop Hub

Integrating your Micro Focus tools with other SDLC tools can bridge gaps and facilitate far better communication paths than emails and excel sheets alone. Sure, it would be great to have everyone under the same umbrella, but that’s not always the reality we live in. So why not allow other teams to work on the same Micro Focus ALM Requirement, Test, or Defect from their own SDLC tool? I’ll show you how you can set up a basic Defect synchronization between Micro Focus ALM and Atlassian JIRA for example in as little as 5 minutes using a product from Micro Focus partner Tasktop called Tasktop Hub.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Best Practices of Installing, Administering and Using Micro Focus Mobile Center

In this segment you will be introduced to a quick overview on Micro Focus Mobile Center. Arvind will explain some of the challenges that he faced while installing the tool. He will also share valuable tips and tricks on effectively implementing and using Micro Focus Mobile Center.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Mark Ford
Integrate your SDLC Tools Quickly and Easily with Tasktop Hub: Integrating your Micro Focus tools with other SDLC tools can bridge gaps and facilitate far better communication paths than emails and excel sheets alone. Sure, it would be great to have everyone under the same umbrella, but that’s not always the reality we live in. So why not allow other teams to work on the same Micro Focus ALM Requirement, Test, or Defect from their own SDLC tool? I’ll show you how you can set up a basic Defect synchronization between Micro Focus ALM and Atlassian JIRA for example in as little as 5 minutes using a product from Micro Focus partner Tasktop called Tasktop Hub
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Speaker: Arvind Namasivayam
Tips and Tricks of Installing, Administering and Using Micro Focus Mobile Center: In this segment you will be introduced to a quick overview on Micro Focus Mobile Center. Arvind will explain some o the challenges that he faced while installing the tool. He will also share valuable tips and tricks on effectively implementing and using Micro Focus Mobile Center.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Five years have passed since the BrightTALK panel discussion ‘ITSM in 2013 and Beyond: Everything You Need to Know in 55 Minutes’. This is a reflection on the longevity of these thoughts and a sneak preview of new research about the foundational movements that you should be aware of, and apply more often.

According to the 2017-18 World Quality Report, 88% of companies surveyed are using or experimenting with DevOps, and that number is growing. Making the transformation is not easy, and it’s made even more complicated by tools that aren’t integrated with each other, do not communicate with each other, and do not offer end-to-end visibility into and collaboration across the DevOps pipeline.

Micro Focus recently introduced their DevOps Suite, consisting of best-of-breed lifecycle management (ALM Octane), functional and performance testing (StormRunner Functional and StormRunner Load), and production monitoring (AppPulse) tools.

Attend this webinar to hear about the DevOps Suite, and how it can help your team accelerate application delivery at high quality and scale. We’ll also show you an end-to-end demo of the products. Here is what you will learn:

• Challenges facing organizations making an agile or DevOps transformation today
• Why it’s critical for organizations to have DevOps tools that share data and insights with each other as well as being tightly integrated with the pipeline
• How the Micro Focus DevOps Suite provides you with lifecycle and
pipeline management, continuous functional and performance testing
from the cloud, and production monitoring for continuous assessment