A service provider is tracking the likelihood of service failures that could affect the service consumer. What is this a measure of?
Which is the MAIN reason for service providers to encourage feedback on service provision?
The service desk procedure for printer incidents is to verify that this is a hardware fault, and then contact a supplier. The supplier has a contract to repair or replace faulty printers within two days. A user contacts the service desk to say that their printer is broken, and they urgently need a printout of a contract or a significant sale will be lost.
What should the service desk agent do?
A service provider has recently released an upgrade to its payroll service. The service provider had told the customer that the upgrade would include functionality to copy information from various other HR systems, to reduce the amount of manual data entry. However, this statement was not documented at the time, and the proposed functionality was not included in the design.
Which practice includes activities which could have helped to avoid this situation?
An organization is evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of replacing its legacy information systems with cloud-based services as part of its strategic plan. The market is extremely competitive, so the organization wants to ensure that all factors are considered.
Which technique would allow this organization to BEST understand the external factors that could influence this decision?
An organization is undergoing a digital transformation. New behaviour patterns are encouraged among the teams. Many employees have adopted these patterns, but others are reluctant and unsure. An anonymous survey conducted by the leadership team highlighted that some team members avoid experimentation and prefer to search or wait for a single correct solution.
Which TWO key behaviour patternsare MOST LIKELY to be affected by this attitude?
1. Accept ambiguity and uncertainty
2. Commit to continual learning
3. Help get customers'jobs done
4. Trust and be trusted
An organization is undergoing a digital transformation and is conducting a strategic analysis of its customers' needs. The organization uses agile methods to manage its digital products and a more traditional waterfall approach to manage its legacy systems. The organization is also considering introducing new products and services.
Which is the BEST way for this organization to undertake this analysis?
Which is the BEST approach for a service consumer to use when they want to obtain services from a service provider?
A legacy financial system requires the user to manually enter the time and date of the transaction to meet regulatory requirements. A recent internal audit has shown that these fields are often blank. Which are effective controls that could improve compliance?
1. Modify the application to automatically add the current time and date when transaction is entered
2. Establish a communication plan to remind users of the importance of time and date on transactions
3. Develop a goals cascade so all staff know their role in achieving company goals
4. Create a report showing non-compliant records and take action to correct
An organization introduced a dedicated team of support agents, which answers questions, provides consultations, and fulfills a range of predefined changes initiated by external users with higher levels of subscription.
Which practice ensures effective fulfillment of these service actions?
A consumer organization is making significant changes to the technologies used by its employees, and is discussing those changes with its service provider.
How can the service provider BEST demonstrate the capability to meet the needs of the consumer organization?
An employee has some concerns at work but does not share this information with others because they fear that this
would damage their reputation and position.
What is PRIMARILY concerned with preventing this situation?
An organization wants to provide its employees with a limited set of self-services via an online portal. A requirement is that when employees log into the portal, they see only those services that are applicable to their status in the organization and that they have the authority to access. The organization also wants to provide employees with the ability to adjust the layout of the portal. Which service provisioning approach should this organization use?
A team is evaluating commercial software products in an effort to improve communication and collaboration within the team. The members of the team cannot agree on the process that they should use to evaluate the products.
Which step should the team complete LAST?
A service provider is collecting requirements for a cloud-based document storage service. Which is an example of a utility requirement for this service?
An IT service provider is carrying out an internal assessment to identify opportunities to develop and improve their services. They have reviewed workflows and activities, the capabilities of their workforce, and supplier contracts.
Which area do they also need to consider?
An organization has signed a contract to outsource its service desk function to a supplier. The organization wants to ensure that its customers and users will receive a seamless support service.
Which activity would MOST help the organization at this stage?
Which activity, carried out by both the service provider and the service consumer, enables service provision and consumption to start?
Which is the BEST method of monitoring the customer's overall perception of a service?
Which competency profile is required by an individual who is tasked with motivating others to adopt the new ways of working required to support the organization's goals?
An organization is a market leader for software that has seen a sharp decline in local installations of its software. Customers are increasingly preferring its subscription-based cloud solution. As the company rapidly adapts its product offering to favour subscription-based cloud solutions, some people within the company do not agree with the new focus.
Which method would be effective in ensuring that the change in focus is supported across the organization?
An organization is receiving complaints about the performance of one of its online services. Some of the complaints are coming from its internal employees who are reporting issues with onboarding new consumers. The organization has limited resources.
Which is the FIRST step that this organization should take to address the complaints?
Which joint activity performed by a service provider and service consumer ensures continual value co-creation?