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What is shared services?
In this video series, we explain an ITSM concept in about 60 seconds. This week, we cheated a little bit: we needed 76 seconds to explain Shared Service Management (SSM). What is shared services? And how does it help you improve your service delivery? If your customer wants to report a call about his broken company phone, does he know who to contact? IT? Facilities? Ideally, they don’t have to know. They just report the issue and it gets fixed. In practice, however, it’s often a guessing game of which number to call or which form to fill in, and hope your call ends up at right team. This can be prevented easily by something we call Shared Service Management. It’s a cooperation between supporting departments such as IT, Facilities and HR to provide better service to your customers. How exactly? Watch the video.
Want to dive deeper in Shared Services Management?
Want to know more about how to improve collaboration between service departments? We’ve got much more to share on Shared Service Management. Here’s a selection of our best practices:
• Blog: How Enterprise Service Management improves the user experience
• Blog: Simple steps towards sharing processes
• Blog: 6 articles on silo-breaking with Enterprise Service Management
• Blog: Utrecht University: an Enterprise Service Management case in action
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Copywriter and Agile Enthusiast
October 22, 2020
What the perfect shared services manager looks like
What does the Shared Services Manager role entail? Stephen Mann shares the 7 responsibilities and ideal traits of a shared services manager.
October 8, 2020
How to improve collaboration between departments
Industry expert Doug Tedder explains how to improve collaboration between departments and takes away the main barriers.
September 10, 2020
A shared services model – the next evolution of ESM
How do you implement a shared services model? Learn how to make the most of the benefits of Enterprise Service Management (ESM).