Monday, 24 September 2012

Developing a Service Catalog for Higher Education Information Technology Services

Developing a Service Catalog for Higher Education Information Technology Services



This case study gives a great incite to how a service catalogue can be implemented for a business catering for a large amount of people. It is almost like a system by step guide. 

I found it interesting where it is discussed around making the content searchable.  As my work places service catalogue typeish website suffers from one the  issues they out line. It categorises services by showing questions a customer might ask, which is very frustrating because you can never find the question you want to ask. The questions are also to long and difficult to skim though the text just becomes too much.  It is really cleaver how they avoided this in the article by refining the categories to board basic request EG Do something? Need Something? Fix a problem? Get information? Buy Something? Etc…..

It would be nice to implement something along these lines and see the improvements or changes in the dynamics of how service requests and incidents come through to a service desk. 

The article outline nicely how the implementation of a service catalogue can change the service provided to a business and the way it can add value to both the customer\user and service provider.

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