Understanding Change Management and Its Importance Within Your Organization
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Organizations everywhere face challenges related to budget constraints, limited resources and increased demand for IT services. These bandwidth issues, rising requests and the ongoing use of disparate systems result in gaps in service and end-user dissatisfaction. So how can you fix it? To start, you want to look at your IT Service Management (ITSM) software and make sure the systems you’re using for service management fit the needs of your evolving organization.
In many cases, the shift towards more digital workspaces over the last few years has meant aging technology and infrastructure is struggling to keep pace. One solution is to take an enterprise integration hub like iPaaS (integration platform as a service) and use it to help spur workflows and automation between your aging systems and new tech.
In addition to iPaaS, many organizations are looking to move towards a single-platform approach to service management. Meaning IT, Facilities, Marketing, HR, etc. can all utilize the same platform for their IT and enterprise service needs. Imagine that instead of entering requests into different systems, there’s a single portal that the entire organization can use to make an initial request – perhaps an onboarding request for example. And once the request has been submitted, the ITSM system will parse out the tasks and assign the appropriate ones to the various departments, such as requesting equipment from IT, clearance from security, badge processing from facilities and benefits onboarding from human resources.
With a one-platform approach, IT teams can also benefit. Communication and transparency around the rollout of new software and servers, for example, get a boost with the one-platform approach as departments outside of IT can have controlled visibility into the project using the same platform.
Since early 2022, Shaner Hotel Group has used TeamDynamix to manage IT service for its 1,100 employees—and both employees and IT staff alike have noticed a huge difference.
With TeamDynamix, managers and employees have complete visibility into the status of support tickets and service requests that pertain to them. This openness has improved communication between IT staff and other company employees.
The hospitality company plans to use the platform to streamline workflows and manage tasks within its contracts and licensing, construction, human resources and procurement departments.
“With more employees working remotely, it’s much easier to have automated digital workflows for the management and fulfillment of projects and service requests,” Vice President and Chief Information Officer Steve Shala said —and TeamDynamix makes it easy to establish these.
By using an IT Service Management tool that includes integration and automation, you can free up your resources by automating the everyday, mundane tasks they usually have to complete before working on bigger projects – things like system name changes, resetting passwords, or granting certain permissions to software. All of these, and more, can be automated with workflows using iPaaS with your ITSM.
By combining iPaaS (integration platform as a service) with ITSM and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) on a single platform you can automate both complex and simple tasks, as well as connect disparate systems throughout your organization.
If you chose a codeless platform for this, you get the added benefit of anyone being able to use these tools – not just IT. By allowing lines of business to create their own workflows you can free up your IT resources to work on larger projects and eliminate the logjam when it comes to integrations within your organization.
Here are a few other ways iPaaS with ITSM can help reduce IT drain on an organization:
At NaphCare, an Alabama-based company providing healthcare services and software to correctional facilities, they use TeamDynamix ITSM along with iPaaS and are seeing success in reducing the strain on IT with automation.
“With iPaaS, we’re looking at automating tasks to take some of the things we do manually out of the hands of IT staff, so they can be more efficient,” Barry Bowden, NaphCare’s IT Service Desk manager, said.
For instance, setting up and provisioning IT accounts for NaphCare employees is currently a multi-step process. NaphCare uses a software program called Adaxes to automate the provisioning of accounts within Active Directory, but IT staff still have to coordinate with both HR staff and the managers of various departments to confirm what IT privileges employees should have—such as whether they should get a free or paid Zoom account. Bowden’s staff includes one full-time employee whose sole responsibility is to perform this work.
With TeamDynamix, NaphCare has created automated workflows for contacting HR and department heads to collect the necessary information. Using iPaaS, Bowden plans to connect TeamDynamix with Adaxes and build a customized workflow to create new user accounts from this information.
Automating this process will enable it to be completed in under five minutes, he says, with very little human intervention needed—freeing up the IT employee responsible for this task to do more strategic work, “That employee can be reallocated to other areas to work on more complex projects,” Bowden said.
There are also plans to automate software provisioning for programs like Microsoft Office.
“It will take me a week, right now, to go in and install Microsoft Office on all the accounts that request it. With automation in place, I won’t need to touch those requests unless there’s a problem. People will be able to go to our portal, put in the request and automatically get the software,” Bowden said. “That’s a full week of time I can get back to work on other things. That will be a huge benefit for us.”
In addition to the one-platform approach and enterprise integration with iPaaS, there are a few other best practices you can follow to quickly improve your IT Service Management delivery.
Want to see how other organizations are improving their service management? Check out these TeamDynamix customer stories:
This article was originally posted in March 2021 and has been updated with new information.
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