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It’s not uncommon for organizations with successfully implemented IT service management (ITSM) strategies to explore expanding service management outside of just IT. In fact, it’s becoming more and more common. According to a recent market study, 38 percent of respondents said expanding their service delivery to encompass enterprise service management (ESM) is one of the most critical trends for the next 12-24 months.
While the study shows that currently, only about three in ten organizations have a formal ESM program to leverage ITSM principles outside of IT, work on this front is clearly underway. Even though many respondents said they don’t practice ESM now, half the organizations have extended their ITSM or ticketing platform for use in managing work in other departments and approximately a quarter of organizations say they’ve deployed ESM in more than two departments outside of IT.
It is a fancy term for working better together – that’s all. In any organization, there are many moving parts – all of which need to fit together and many of which are disjointed. Getting help in this environment can be daunting. For example, what if you need to change your name, request a parking permit, ask for a new monitor, or tell someone that all the lights in your office are blinking on and off every time you sit down?
To envision what enterprise service management may do for your organization, first close your eyes and imagine a central hub – like an Intranet. You go there and there are big buttons for things you may want to request – like “Request IT Service” or “Request a Parking Permit.” There could even be a library of information so that you can read about how to potentially purchase your own monitor and chargeback, or you can read about how to fix your blinking voicemail light. This central hub is your company’s core brain – it’s a library or knowledge base of critical information with embedded “HELP ME” buttons that will automatically route your service request to the right place.
Human Resources often serves as a great use case example because literally everyone in the company relies on HR for both information and service delivery. Services could be a request to change a name, to add a dependent, to change an address or even to report a compliance issue. If you were to go to the hub and enter the HR hub area, there could be a combination of indexed articles that will inform, as well as hot buttons. On the other end, HR can easily configure the hot buttons to route information or even trigger workflow actions.
Another example of how this could be leveraged is within marketing. Often sales or other groups will have requests from marketing – maybe they want the logo file – well that is easy enough, it could be embedded in an article in the library and anyone can download it. It could also be a request for creative support – maybe to create a postcard or a sign. For this, there could be a “CREATIVE SUPPORT” button and from here the form would ask for critical information related to the creative request.
For years organizations tried to take ITSM platforms and turn them into enterprise service platforms and the biggest pushback would come from the various departments – mostly around the fact that they felt that a square IT solution was getting forced into a round hole. Since then, much has been learned and the platforms have extended and expanded.
Here are some key elements to keep in mind:
Enterprise Service Management needs to be easy and sustainable to take off. Once it does, it will offer your internal and external customers the nirvana of going to “one place to get everything I need.”
When implementing Enterprise Service Management (ESM) or IT service management (ITSM), it’s important to consider your project management tools and processes – especially if you’re working with limited resources. By bringing ESM/ITSM and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) together – you can gain a 360 view of your entire organization. Every project, problem, service request– it’s all at your fingertips.
By bringing ITSM and PPM together on a single platform, you can better understand your resource capabilities and engage in true resource capacity planning.
With resource capacity planning you get a big-picture view of your entire organization, allowing you to balance workloads across projects and support; and to see the different types of work that need to be done at any given time.
For example, if you have three IT technicians that need to cover three functional areas of business – like service, projects and operations – you can engage in resource capacity planning and optimize each technician’s workload based on their skill set and their availability. As a result, the work can be completed more effectively and efficiently as each technician is focused on work that plays to their strengths. And because you have a full view of the work and the time it will take, you can avoid overcommitting or underutilizing your resources.
This approach is especially useful when you have limited resources, but an increase in demand for the support of remote learning and remote workforces.
When using ESM and PPM together, for example, your marketing department can leverage ESM to manage requests for event support, while leveraging PPM to manage the actual event. By combining ESM and PPM, the marketing team can see all their work and available resources within a single tool.
By having that single view of all projects and resources across your ENTIRE organization, companies are better equipped to face these challenges head-on.
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This article was originally published in February 2021 and has been updated with new information.
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