Activity-based management of IT service delivery

IT Governance is a branch of the corporate governance system focused on information technology (IT) as well as performance and risk management. IT Governance is defined as the processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goal. There are many different frameworks that can be used for managing the delivery of cost-effective IT services. IT managing the delivery of cost-effective IT services does not always give the advantage to the company. There are times when the IT managing the delivery of cost-effective IT services does not provide any benefit, it can cause IT Productivity Paradox. IT Productivity Paradox can be prevented, one is to analyze the processes undertaken with IT. From this analysis we will get the significance of the relationship processes with the IT Goal. The significance will be seen which one significant process and which one are not significant to the IT Goal. If the IT process there are not significant to the IT Goal, the process does not need to be repaired because it has no effect on IT Goal. Existing IT governance frameworks are COBIT, ITIL, ISO 20000, 17799/27001, Six Sigma, etc. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), initially developed in the UK by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), is gaining traction in the global IT community as a framework for IT governance. ISO 20000-focusing upon IT service management. ISO 17799 / ISO 27001 - focusing upon information. Six Sigma-focusing upon operational performance and defect identification. COBIT - framework for information IT management risks. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) provides good practices across a domain and process framework and presents activities in a manageable and logical structure. COBIT’s good practices represent the consensus of experts. They are strongly focused more on control, less on execution. These practices will help optimise IT-enabled investments, ensure service delivery and provide a measure against which to judge when things do go wrong. This research is intend to find out whether Cobit mapping Business Goal to IT Goal appropriate with case study. The result The results using SEM approach shows that the mapping of COBIT is not significant in the case studies of academic administration.

Problem Solving Tools And Techniques: For IT Services Delivery

Highly valued Information technology (IT) service contracts involve the delivery of complex IT services, such as migrating the client's IT infrastructure to the Cloud, Mainframes, among others. IT service providers usually compete to win these IT service contracts. In order to bid on such deals, IT service providers need to price/quote the solution that they propose to the client, trying to convince him to use their services. A few analytical methods in the literature have been provided for pricing these deals. However, these methods ignore an important characteristic of these services; that is they are typically characterized by a decreasing cost profile in subsequent years to the first year. Typically, these methods require solutioners to manually input these annual cost reductions. In this paper, we present an analytical way for calculating this cost reduction, if applicable, via mining historical data. We show that using our methodology could achieve significant increase in the accuracy of estimating the costs and prices of IT service deals.

The organization of companies’ information technology (IT) functions has been studied and described in three ways: on a centralization‐decentralization continuum, on the basis of technological architecture, and, for multinational companies, as reflective of their strategic focus. This research proposes a classification of organizational structures based on the tension between business units and IT departments in the delivery of IT services. Using a cluster analysis on a sample of 40 companies having corporate offices in the USA or The Netherlands, it identifies four basic structures or patterns that describe the similarities and differences in the way IT services are handled. The paper then describes the implications of these structures for companies that are considering the redesign or restructure of their information technology function.

An organization which delivers Information Technology (IT) services to the customers reflects the presence of an existing framework within the services. The IT services indicate the presence of IT systems in an organization. The delivered IT systems and services indicate the presence of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) within an organization. This study is conducted in Malaysian academic libraries. The library is the knowledge servicing department in a higher learning institution. The library serves the knowledge in the form of digital services. Hence, the IT implementation and service management in the library have increased the system usage over the years. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is adopted for IT governance and ITSM to fill the gap of digital information services. There are two main IT services in the library, which are the digital information and IT infrastructure. These services are aligned with existing standardization of IT service in the library.

Along with the increasing need for services in organizations, especially in the field of Information Technology (IT), the IT paradigm which initially only focused on data processing and manipulation, is now beginning to shift to strategic planning and IT services. IT Service Management (ITSM) is a method of managing information technology systems that seek to align IT with business needs to manage the provision of efficient IT services with quality assurance. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is one of the Frameworks in ITSM, ITIL is a popular / widely used Framework in ITSM research. Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University (UAJY) is one of the major private universities in Yogyakarta and is also increasingly complex in providing services to its academic community. The use of IT in UAJY is manifested in a variety of services that can support the needs of every user. This research resulted in an IT service design that will be used by students and lecturers. This research focuses on the Service Design phase which will produce a Service Design Package (SDP) using the ITIL Framework.

Along with the increasing need for services in organizations, especially in the field of Information Technology (IT), the IT paradigm which initially only focused on data processing and manipulation, is now beginning to shift to strategic planning and IT services. IT Service Management (ITSM) is a method of managing information technology systems that seek to align IT with business needs to manage the provision of efficient IT services with quality assurance. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is one of the Frameworks in ITSM, ITIL is a popular / widely used Framework in ITSM research. Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University (UAJY) is one of the major private universities in Yogyakarta and is also increasingly complex in providing services to its academic community. The use of IT in UAJY is manifested in a variety of services that can support the needs of every user. This research resulted in an IT service design that will be used by students and lecturers. This research focuses on the Service Design phase which will produce a Service Design Package (SDP) using the ITIL Framework.

In order to solve the problems in information technology (IT) services of distance education, this paper makes deep research on the IT services of School of Network Education and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards, and proposes an IT service management (ITSM) model for distance education. Taking School of Network Education as an example, this study focuses on the three core processes, that is, requirements analysis and requirements change management organization structure design of distance education and application and infrastructure monitoring and management. The model provides a solution to IT services of distance education.

IT processes are the functions and duties that Information Technology (IT) performs. These activities include development and maintenance of applications, supporting infrastructure (e.g., hardware, systems software and networks) as well as managing human resources. All of these activities have some dependency among each other. Information Technology processes is a practice of ensuring that IT organization serves the needs of the business in a systematic manner so that good performance of the enterprise is guaranteed. It is a set of practices and procedures brought together in unison to ensure IT alignment with business needs. Some widely acknowledged and used IT process frameworks to make IT efficient and effective are Control Objectives for Information and related Technology, (COBIT), IT Service management (ITSM) and IT infrastructure library (ITIL) and ISO 38500.

The main responsibility of Information Technology (IT) in business is to acquire, implement and maintain technology investments, which belonged within the Information Systems. In order to achieve successful IT planning and implementation, shared knowledge becomes an important enabler of the alignment of business and IT objectives. This research evaluates how cross-functional competence in business and IT people provides the basis for effective partnership to develop. The objective is to conceptually define and empirically measure the variables of IT competence in business managers and of business competence in IT professionals, and test the measurements for validity and reliability. A Simple Percentage Method, chi-square tests, Tables and weighted average were used to get clear picture of analysis with results showing how both IT knowledge and IT experience are instrumental in defining IT competence of business people. The results of these showed that IT service delivery dimensions, IT system dimensions (quality, delivery, trustworthy and management) and IT core characteristics have statistical significant influence on effective IT competences among IT business people and IT cognitive dimensions which included knowledge, skills and experience.

Information Technology (IT) is used by many organizations to enhance competitive advantage, but many outsource security firms have not used IT in their business processes. In this research, we will design Strategic Management for IT Services for outsourcing security company. We use an outsourcing security company as a case study of IT Strategy Management for IT Services development. The purpose of this study is to create an IT services strategy for security outsourcing companies. The framework used is the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) framework service strategy in strategy management for IT services process. There are several steps taken in the making of the strategy: (a) Strategic assessment stage to analyzed internal and external factors of the company. (b) Strategy generation by creating the strategic plan. (c) Strategy execution to determine the tactical plan. And (d) strategy measurement and evaluation. This study produced the proposed IT service system that suits the needs of the company in the form of strategic, tactical plans and strategy measurement. This result can be used as the foundations of IT service development in outsourcing security company. In the process of this study, we work closely with stakeholders; every work product has been verified and validated by stakeholders.

To manage the delivery of services competitively on a large, global scale, an IT (information technology) service provider must efficiently use service delivery resources-in particular, skilled service delivery teams. Service requests form a large and important component of the management of a client's IT infrastructure. Currently, the fulfillment of IT service requests is often managed on a per-account basis. Service-delivery teams fulfill service requests according to account-specific processes by using an account-specific service-request-management environment, making it difficult to leverage the skills of the various delivery teams for multiple accounts. The service delivery management platform (SDMP) uses reusable service components that can be performed by multiple delivery teams and can be assembled into service compositions to which multiple clients can subscribe. The SDMP catalog is the information repository that manages service components, composition, providers, and subscriptions and is used by the service-request runtime environment to implement specific customer service requests. In this paper, we describe a catalog-based architecture for service delivery management and demonstrate how its use can provide a global service-delivery organization with a platform for achieving significant productivity gains.

Higher education institutions increasingly leverage information technology (IT) to improve their services. IT services are crucial in managing and supporting students, faculty, and staff. As IT governance evolves, measuring performance to identify potential service delivery issues becomes essential. This research adopts the COBIT 2019 framework, particularly the Deliver, Service, Support (DSS) domain, as a structured approach to assessing IT services' capability and maturity levels at a public university in Indonesia. The research methodology involves identifying measurement areas, collecting data, evaluating capability and maturity levels, validity testing, and providing recommendations. The study results show that the IT service maturity level of the university related to management practices in managed operations (DSS01), managed service requests and incidents (DSS02), and managed problems (DSS03) has reached level 3. Five activities in the IT service management have not been performed optimally: monitoring incidents and problems to improve task reliability, integrating key internal IT processes with outsourced service providers, comparing measures and plans with insurance policy requirements, evaluating physical modifications to IT sites to re-evaluate environmental risks, and including review knowledge in the service review meeting with the business customer. The validity results indicate that most of the measurement results align with the actual conditions of IT services, with an average validity score of 4.14. This study suggests specific improvements related to those five activities feasible for the university to implement to enhance its IT services.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concept and techniques for managing the infrastructure, development, and operation of information technology (IT) for all types of organizations. The implementation of ITIL aims to improve the services of IT service organizations while meeting the needs of customers with various stages to gain a competitive advantage. The case study in this research is Polytechnic XYZ that needs to use strategic information technology role in supporting and improving service quality of an organization, by analyzing gap and measuring maturity level based on ITIL standard framework. The end result of the service quality planning developed with ITIL can be used as a reference in improving the role of information technology and systems in supporting organizational business processes at Polytechnic XYZ, in the form of policy documentation and IT Service Management guide (ITSM). In the final stages, the critical success factor to ensure continuous improvement of IT services.

In the past five years, more and more information technology (IT) projects have been adopting service-oriented solutions. In addition, more and more traditional business and government organizations are focused on clearly identifying and monitoring the core IT services they are delivering. The remarkable growth of web service technologies and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions yields both challenges and opportunities in improving the quality of IT services and has given rise to a variety of IT service management frameworks like IT Infrastructure Library (ITU) and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMJ). This paper presents the problem of total quality management (TQM) in IT services, followed by a review of quality definitions from four levels of perspectives. Based on the comparison of the different definitions, the necessity of integration of quality measurement and improvement approaches is identified and our preliminary work on TQM in IT services is introduced.