A service provider involves suppliers to resolve incidents related to third-party software. Resolution of such incidents typically takes longer because of the time required to contact a supplier and other delays. The service provider needs to involve the supplier every time a similar incident occurs again. The incident manager wants to reduce the costs and improve the timeliness of incident resolution. What is the BEST way for the incident manager to achieve this?
An organization wishes to acquire a service from a supplier in a different country but with similar working hours.
Which sourcing model should they use?
A technology organization is undergoing a strategic expansion, targeting emerging markets. The organization's current workforce has not had experience in dealing with the innovative products which are part of the new markets. What is the BEST strategic approach that the organization should adopt to resolve this situation?
A service has been in use for a number of years, and is not being developed or updated. Customers are not happy because they think that the applications that support the service are missing important functionality.
Which practice is most likely to identify this issue and initiate improvement actions?
A service provider works with a diverse group of customers, including corporate, private, and partner organizations. The service provider’s service desk supports users from all customer organizations. However, different users prefer different communication channels. In response to their preferences, the service provider implemented email, chat, phone, and website contact form for the users to contact the service desk. The service desk team is increasingly struggling to monitor all channels and respond timely. Some user queries are not noticed early enough, and the users are complaining. What should the service provider do to improve the situation?
A mobile app development company has implemented a new strategy in its software development process. Instead of large, infrequent updates, it now releases smaller updates every two weeks. These updates are shaped by regular user reviews and suggestions, which the company actively seeks and incorporates into each new version. Which guiding principle is this approach MOST closely aligned with?
Which approach may help to improve incident resolution times by moving support activities from specialist teams to frontline teams or users?
A technology firm has implemented a new ticketing system for managing customer support requests. However, the firm is facing challenges in effectively prioritizing and managing these tickets due to varying levels of urgency and complexity. Some high-priority issues are being delayed, while less critical requests are being addressed too soon, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficiencies in the workflow. How should the firm improve this situation?
A service operations team monitors a critical service. They receive thousands of events every day and operators are trained, so they know which events require a response. Sometimes they miss an important event and this causes service level targets to be breached.
What is the BEST approach to resolve this issue?
A service operations team monitors a critical service. They receive thousands of events every day and operators are trained, so they know which events require a response. Sometimes they miss an important event and this causes service level targets to be breached.
What is the BEST approach to resolve this issue?
During a service design workshop, a development team come up with lots of different possible design solutions, and then analyze these to select one of them to proceed with.
What ‘design thinking’ activity is this an example of?
An organization has many team members who work independently and spend time on the work which interests them the most.
Which recommendation is MOST applicable to this situation?
An organization wants to make some changes to individual and team objectives. The new objectives need to align to the organization’s goal of anticipating the needs of its customers.
Which concept is the key element of this alignment?
An organization experiences delays when creating and changing products and services. This is largely because software developers store code in their individual repositories.
Which approach would help to resolve this situation?
A service provider is redesigning its service management system using value stream management and mapping. The service management team is reviewing the role of practices in various value streams. There is an argument about the role of deployment management as software development and service management teams see its role differently. What is the BEST approach to define the role of deployment management practice in value streams?
A manager is working with a diverse team from various cultural backgrounds. What should the manager prioritize to enhance team effectiveness and manage cultural differences effectively?
Users have specific product-related questions and want to provide product feedback.
What is the best way to enable two-way communication between these users and the organization’s product team?