people: a bigger perspective of itsm ivor macfarlane, ibm itsm people.pdf · 2014-03-18 · ivor...

© 2009 IBM Corporation

People: a bigger perspective of ITSM

Ivor Macfarlane, IBM

© 2011 IBM Corporation2

Service Management: People, Process & Technology

• Or is your organisation more like:

Technology Process people


Do you work in IT?

• Is that now too imprecise?

• Should beg follow on question

• Maybe like ‘work in medicine’ Brian surgeon?

Drug researcher?

Hospice nurse?

Very different skills sets needed

Even if you have them all, needs mindset change to practice them at their best

ServiceManagement

IT


What is the IT range?

Nano-technology research

Terabytes on a pin-head

Making the technology doyour bidding

Programming

Hardware architecture

Understanding what thecustomers want/need

Keeping/making themhappy

Dealing with issues

When they happen

Before they have happened (prevention and diversion)

CUSTOMER

HOW QUICKLY YOU CAN DAMANGE THE BUSINESS

Service Management is in the front line


Oops … back to our real focus

• IT Service Management Didn’t (just) come from IT Service management is way older than that

• Engineering has been there before us

• Service management has its own skill set Geek skills don’t

hurt, but theydon’t help thatmuch either

let’s look at whatskills might help


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IT and Service Management – the differences

• Service managers Happy to be low profile Oriented to another’s (the

customer’s) hopes and desires

Concerned about the end product – the service

Not focused on the means – the application and technology

• Allowing customers to take the means for granted by understanding the ends

• IT people Fiddlers

Fixers

Seeking challenges

Enjoy understanding how

• Fire-fighters at heart

• Happy when things break


Attributes of good service manager?

• Intuition and/or Understanding of customers’ situation and requirement – and relative priorities

Ideally spotting needs that the customer doesn’t know they have

Other stakeholders too?

• Value invisibility and ‘nice disguise = you’ve failed’ Seeing bridge

Liking the editing

Are we on a cloud?

• The right to magic


Application service

Seeing the end without being distracted by cool means


Just like magic

• “Any suitably advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C Clarke

• Customers have a right to treat technology as magic

• Maybe even an obligation?

© Warner Bros inc


Right Service needs right level of processes

excessive performance

insufficient performance

Processes needed to support service

Service used by the business


Measurement attitudes

• Find a number

• Make it bigger

• Feel smug and relax

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We are supposed to be useful

• So express in terms of making life better

• Measure business service As used Independent of delivery Every kind of change is

valid input

• Not about sharing sleepless nights with the CEO

• It is making sure they sleep all night


Example: Green car, green measure or real green?

• MPG?

• MPY?

• Cost?

• Carbon?

• Car?

• Family?

• Company?

• Planet?


Bigger is not always better

• Not always intuitive Prisons

ATMs

Floodlights

• Measuring real effects Corporate costs (not IT costs)

Lost sales

Hospital deaths


Success doesn’t always look like it

• Some thoughts from a friend – North West Memorial hospital

• Strategy – Align your goals with the business and build a framework that will keep it moving.

• Outcome Improvement – Transform improvements in process into improvements in business outcomes through aggressive goals.

• Process Improvement – Identify and improve troubled areas and begin to socialize the concepts of service management.

“IT has become a risk to the organization.”Problem Statement? No – it’s a success statement!

© Joel Splan, North West Memorial Hospital, 2009


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Unexpected consequences

• Many companies are heterogeneous

• Can you please all the people all the time?


Growing up

• The old favourites were easy Availability percentages

Response and repair times

• New world will be harder Less to do with our

equipment

Driven by otherpeople’s opinions

Underpinning societyand survival


Customers need to learn their role

• Know what suppliers don’t

• Understand their commitments

• Some things can not be outsourced,bought or escaped from Knowing what is better

Judgement

accountability

Knowledge and wisdom


Focus on reality

• Not as easy as you might think, not really the 21st Century's strength

• expectations can be driven by fantasy Television and the movies

What our bosses want tobe true

Marketing and sales (TFS)


Pragmatism

• Teleportation – the film financier’s dream mode of travel

• Judge by results

• If it does the job– why spend more?

• Functionality and reliability


So … go forth and manage services

• It’s really just a matter of looking in the right direction

• And seeing what is actually there.


Thank you

Ivor Macfarlane

[email protected]@ivormacf

+44 7725 706617

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