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Service Catalog Process Kit - Third Edition

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ITIL Alignment Begins With Service Catalog Management

Service Catalog Management is a key component of the ITIL Framework. Carefully planned and documented IT Service Management (ITSM) processes are becoming an increasingly important component in the delivery of higher customer satisfaction. The Service Catalog Process Kit provides a wide variety of resources to boost your understanding and ability to implement Service Catalog Management in your organization.

  This Kit covers Service Catalog fundamentals the use of Service Catalogs as a core IT tool covering the services themselves, default capabilities, measures and primary means of access and provision. It then shows how this tool is pivotal in demonstrating the value IT provides to facilitate business operations. Put together by The Art of Service's industry experts and using real case studies, this valuable kit takes the reader beyond the theoretical to focus on the real business benefits of Service Catalogs and how to implement them successfully within an organization.

 

 This innovative set of documents and ready-to-use templates will provide you with a head start for both learning and implementation of an IT service organization that meets today's standards. It is tailor-fit for IT managers who need to move towards a services-oriented organization, but they don't have the time or resources at hand to develop the required templates and structure for implementation.

 

 

 

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What is included in the updated third edition of the Service Catalog toolkit?  

Introduction and Roadmap Folder                  

  • Eight Steps to Creating an Effective Service Catalog       
  • Service Catalog Management Intro Presentation  
  • Service Catalog Management ITILV3  
  • Service Catalog Reasons Hints & Tips  
  • Toolkit Roadmap - Service Catalog Management

Bonus Documents Folder                   

  • ITIL Easy Explanation Fact Sheet               
  • The Evolving Service Catalog               
  • Viewpoints to Creating a Service Catalog               
  • ISO Series Folder    

 

Step 1 – Definitions Folder                   

  • Functional Specification Template               
  • Service Definition               
  • Technical Specification Template    

Step 2 - Process and Policies Folder                  

  • Business and IT Service Mapping              
  • Policies Objectives Scope for SCM              
  • Policies Objectives Scope for SLM              
  • SLM Process Template              
  • SLM Review Doc   

Step 3 - Map Dependencies Folder                   

  • Service Design - The Big Picture               
  • Service Enablers               
  • The Key Links, Inputs and Outputs of Service Design          
     

Step 4 - Service Levels Folder                     

  •  Corporate-Based SLA Template Example         
  • Customer-Based SLA Template Example   
  • Operational Level Agreement Template Example             
  • Service Agreements             
  • Service-Based SLA Template Example
  • Service Options             
  • Underpinning Contracts Template Example         

Step 5 - Establish Cost of Services Folder                   

  • Cost of Services and Pricing               
  • Price List               

Step 6 - Determine Perspectives for Catalog Folder           

  • Service Catalog Perspectives   
         

Step 7 - Publish Catalog Folder     

  • Business Justification document               

  • Communication Plan               

  • E-Mail Text               

  • Publishing a Service Catalog               

  • Service Catalog Extended               

  • Service Catalog Implementation Plan               

  • Service Catalog Large               

  • Service Catalog Medium               

  • Service Level Project Plan               

  • SLM Business and IT Flyers           

   

Step 8 - Maintain and Improve Service Catalog Folder                   

  • Catalog Maintenance and Improvement             
  • Roles and Responsibilities of Service Catalog Management (SCM)
  • SCM Process Owner Role Description Template              
  • SLM Process Owner Role Description Template    

 

 

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Roles and Responsibilities Toolkit

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A Long-Awaited Guide in Indentifying and Managing Your Key Process Roles

IT Service Management involves a number of roles required for service processes. These roles can be specific to one process alone, while others may include responsibilities in a number of different processes. The goal of this Toolkit is to support an organization in recognizing, defining, and managing the roles required by the service management process, as well as the competency, authority, and interactions required by the persons filling these roles.

Actively identify and manage key process roles in your service-orientated organization with this on-trend Toolkit today! Service Managers wanting to implement specially designed templates aimed to support the service process and aid in the improvement of human resource management and automation capabilities can breathe a sigh of relief!

This toolkit provides answers to all of your Roles and Responsibilities questions and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of Roles and Responsibilities by offering a step-by-step, easy-to-follow roadmap. It also includes easy-to-use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements. 

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce Roles and Responsibilities concepts and provide you with the tools to successfully create a workable Roles and Responsibilities culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

R&R-PPT Screenshot

 

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

R&R-Support doc Screenshot

 

R&R-Support doc Screenshot

 

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s Roles and Responsibilities understanding and knowledge base.

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The Complete Toolkit Includes:

  • Roles and ResponsibilitiesToolkit
    • Toolkit Roadmap- Roles and Responsibilities.doc
    • Roles Toolkit  Introduction Presentation.ppt
    • Introduction to Roles and Responsibilities.ppt
    • Role Examples.ppt
    • Performance Management.ppt
    • Managing Change.ppt
    • Mapping Responsibilities.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities Development Process.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-360 Degree Feedback.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Internal Job Application for Job.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Job Candidate Evaluation.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Motivation.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Performance Improvement Plan.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Performance Management Process Checklist.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Topgrading.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Managing Change Effectively.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Organizational Behavior Survey.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Develop your leadership skills.doc
  • Roles and Responsibilities Design Documents
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Availability Requirements.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Cost Model Template.xls
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Detailed Design.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Functional Design.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Hardware-Software Resource Requirements.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Interface Design Specification.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Technical Architecture.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Security Service Requirement.doc
  • Roles and Responsibilities Infrastructure Support Documents
    • Roles and Responsibilities-AS-BUILT Template.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Business Continuity Strategy.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Component Failure Impact Analysis Worksheet.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Emergency Response Plan.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Service Outage Analysis.doc
  • Roles and Responsibilities Project Initiation Documents
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Budgeting Guidelines.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Business Plan.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Business Requirements and Feasibility Study.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Change Management Process.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Charging Policies.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Charging Template.xls
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Project Initiation.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Project Scope.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Request for Change Form.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Risk Assessment Template.doc
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Risk Register.xls
    • Roles and Responsibilities-Service-Based SLA.doc


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 Need help justifying your investment?

It took us 40 man-hours to produce the Roles and Responsibilities toolkit: analyzing, processing, selecting, and building the “flow” from the countless documents and data we have produced over months (at least $50/hour that comes to $2,000 of time).

In total, the end result—the Roles and Responsibilities toolkit—reflects close to a full-time employee’s week of work. 

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis and the collating of information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project—to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

Purchase now and you have an instant ROI by having the right information at your fingertips and saving hundreds and hundreds of hours of research time.

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The Supplier Management Toolkit

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Obtain Value for Money!

 

The purpose of the Supplier Management process is to obtain value for money from suppliers and to ensure that suppliers perform to the targets contained within their contracts and agreements, while conforming to all of the terms and conditions.

The Art of Service has designed an inspirational Supplier Management Toolkit, which improves and maintains the relationship with your organization’s suppliers. The process should include the management of all suppliers and contracts needed to support the provision of IT services to the business. Each service provider will have a formal process for the management of all suppliers and contracts. This promises to ensure your organization develops beneficial relationships with your most desired supply partners!

 

This indispensable toolkit contains presentations, templates, and assessments:

Supporting documents and assessments are provided to help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement.



 

Presentations can be used to educate, as the basis for management presentations, or when making business cases for Supplier Management implementation.

 

 

The additional information and bonus resources will enable you to improve your organization’s methodology knowledgebase.



 

 

A Quick Look Inside—This Fundamental Toolkit Contains:

•   ITIL® Supplier Management Presentation

•   Toolkit Introduction Presentation

•   Outsourcing—Sourcing Strategy Presentation

•   ITIL® Outsourcing Presentation—CSI

•   Supplier Management—Roles and Responsibilities

•   Service Sourcing Structures

•   Sourcing roles and responsibilities

•   Example Outsourcing Contract template

•   Example Outsourcing—Service Levels

•   Example Outsourcing—Service Levels

•   Outsourcing Transition Plan

•   IT Outsourcing ITIL® Process Assessment v2.1

•   Example Service Desk Project Plan

•   Toolkit Roadmap

 

Purchase the Supplier Management Toolkit Risk Free Today!

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Need help justifying your investment?

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All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project—to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

 

Learn ALL you can possibly know about Supplier Management and how to effectively use it to your advantage with this brilliant Toolkit—essential for accessing the education you need!

Grab your Toolkit now, while you still can!




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Special Expires On: May 6, 2013

Dropbox Complete Certification Kit - Core Series for IT

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Explore the latest file sharing method known as Dropbox.  Examine a quick, easy, and safe hosting service which allows individuals and business alike to share, access, and review files via the Internet. Become a valued member of your organization by learning the benefits and advantages of implementing Dropbox services.

This certification validates that you know specific methods, models, and/or tools. This is essential to professionals in order to be updated on the latest multimedia trends, and to add to their Dropbox toolbox.

The industry is facing a bold, new world with the amazing developments of Dropbox, and the challenges and the opportunities this presents are unprecedented. The Dropbox Complete Certification Kit serves as a complete introductory guide for anyone looking to grasp a better understanding of Dropbox concepts and their practical application in any environment.

The Art of Service's introductory Dropbox training and certification helps IT practitioners develop the skills that are crucial, as businesses embark on this massive transformation. It provides an industry credential for IT professionals to help them transform into the world of Dropbox.

This training and certification enables you to move both the industry and business forward, and to quickly take advantage of the benefits that Dropbox applications present.

Take the next step: Get Certified!

The Art of Service IT Service Management programs are the #1 certification programs in the information management industry. Being proven means investing in yourself and formally validating your knowledge, skills, and expertise by the industry's most comprehensive learning and certification program. The Dropbox Complete Certification Kit course prepares you for Dropbox Certification.

 

Why register?

- Easy and Affordable.

- Learning about Dropbox technologies has never been more affordable.

- Latest industry trends explained.

- Acquire valuable skills and get updated about the industry's latest trends right here. Today.

- Learn from the Experts. The Art of Service offers education about Dropbox and 300 other technologies by the industry's best.

- Learn at your own pace. Find everything right here, when you need it, and from wherever you are.

 

What will you learn?

- Learn the important concepts, tools, and uses of Dropbox.

- Learn about the benefits of implementing Dropbox in your work place.

- Examine Remote Backup and File Hosting Services, and review samples of each.

- Review Online Backup and File Sharing techniques and concepts.

- Explore the tricks of the trade when it comes to Dropbox.

 

Course Outline:

 

The topics covered in this course are:

- Introduction to Dropbox

- Remote Backup Services

- File Hosting Services

- Samples of both Remote Backup Services and File Hosting Services

- Online Backup and File Sharing

 

Contact Hours:

The recommended minimum contact hours to pass the certification test is 18 hours.

 

Delivery:

The program combines presentations supported by trainer audio. Each module is followed by quizzes and exercises (marking scheme provided) to test your knowledge and competency, and to enhance understanding of the key concepts. A certificate is awarded to your successful passing of the final exam (80% pass requirement) and completion of the course. This is an eLearning Program. Your access details to the eLearning course are in the book.

 

Program Materials:

- Multimedia presentations

- Downloadable resources (PDF documents)

- End of module review questions to assess your content knowledge

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ISO/IEC 27000 Toolkit

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ALL the knowledge and skills you need to meet your Information Security Management Systems standards can be found right here!

 

 

All successful organizations are looking to implement and become certified with the ISO/IEC 27000 standard as a way to ensure the overall improvement of the structure and quality of their business.

The aim of The Art of Service’s ISO/IEC 27000 Toolkit and the standard itself is to deliver a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an Information Security Management System.

 

This step-by-step toolkit is designed to act as a starting point for your organization. It is guaranteed to give you a clear path to travel to reach your company goals.

 

The toolkit provides you with templates, useful guides, and innovative assessments to ensure you make the most out of what the ISO/IEC 27000 Toolkit has to offer.

This includes the carefully created Power Point Presentations, which can be used to educate, as the basis for management presentations, or when making business cases for Information Security Management implementation.

 

The additional information and bonus material explores ways in which you can improve your organizations knowledge base and, therefore, enables you to immensely increase your success rate.


The assessments and supporting documents will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement.

 

 

 

A Quick Look Inside: This First-Class Toolkit Contains:

ISO/IEC 27000 Introduction

1. ISO/IEC 27000 Introduction

2. Information Security Management—Roles and Responsibilities

3. Certifying Information Security Management Systems

4. ISO27000 Statement of Applicability Example

5. ISO/IEC 27001 Awareness Terms and Definitions

6. Mapping Responsibilities ISO _IEC 27000

7. Mapping—Terms and Usage ISO 20000 and ISO 27000

8. ISO_IEC 27000 FAQs

 

Information Security Management Resources

1. Objectives and Goals

2. Communication Plan

3. CRAMM

4. Guidelines for Building an Electronic Data Retention Policy

5. Implementation Plan—Project Plan

6. Policies, Objectives, Scope

7. Reports, KPIs, Other Metrics

8. Security Audit Template

9. Security Incident Template

10. Security Service Requirement

11. Security Process Manager Document

12. Security Management Review Document

 

Business Continuity Management Resources

1. BCM Objectives and Goals

2. BCM Communication Plan

3. BCM Policies, Objectives, and Scope

4. BCM Business Justification Document

5. BCM Example Business Impact Analysis

6. BCM Business Impact Analysis Info sheet

7. BCM Risk Assessment Template

8. BCM Environmental Architectures and Standards

9. BCM Reciprocal Arrangements

10. BCM Salvage Plan Template

11. BCM Business Continuity Strategy

12. BCM MOR Framework

13. BCM Risk Assessment Questionnaire

14. BCM Typical Contents of a Recovery Plan

15. BCM Emergency Response Plan

16.  BCM Reports and KPI Targets and Additional Metrics

17. BCM Vital Records Template

18. Business Continuity Management Review Document

19. Business Continuity Management Implementation and Project Plan

 

Risk Management Resources

1. Risk Management Framework

2. Risk Assessment Questionnaire

3. Risk Assessment and Control Form

4. Generic Project Risk Assessment

5. Conducting a Risk Management Review

6. Checklist on Assignment of Risk Ownership

 

Bonus Resources

1. COBIT Factsheet

2. COBIT Presentation

3. ISO/IEC 9000 Factsheet

4. ISO/IEC 9000 Presentation

5. ISO/IEC 9000 Model of a Process-based Quality Management System

6. ISO/IEC 20000 Factsheet

7. ISO/IEC 20000 Presentation

8. ISO/IEC 20000 Terms and Definitions and Acronyms

9. ISO/IEC 38500 Factsheet

10. ISO/IEC 38500 Presentation

11. SIX SIGMA Starter Kit Document

12. Six Sigma Presentation

13. Six Sigma—Short Overview

14. Six Sigma Defining Requirements

15. Simple Six Sigma Calculator

(Also includes Toolkit Roadmap)

 

 The ISO/IEC 27000 Toolkit Is Yours Risk Free Today!

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Need help justifying your investment?

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. That is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching, the analysis, and the collating of information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project—to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

 

Grab your copy of the ISO/IEC 27000 Toolkit today! Satisfaction Guaranteed!



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ITIL Foundation Course - Unlimited online access.

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The ITIL Foundation Complete Certification Kit is the most complete guide for anyone involved in IT Service Management and who are aiming to take the ITIL Foundation exam, whether they be first-time ITIL learners or seasoned IT professionals. Still a number one best-seller for IT Management from Amazon.com to Barnes and Noble and many more, this Fourth edition has refreshed the study guide and online learning program with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for passing your ITIL Foundation exam on the first attempt. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, the ITIL Foundation Complete Certification Kit is, to quote numerous ITIL certified clients, "the gold standard of ITIL Certification."

As the industry standard in terms of Process, Service and Lifecycle Management for IT, the ITIL Foundation exam is the most popular entry-level certification, particularly for individuals switching from another career to IT. This kit prepares you for the certification exam by offering valuable information on the ITIL framework, ITIL certification and IT Service Management as a practice. This certification kit contains both the study guide and access to our online program that together provides everything you need to prepare for the ITIL Foundation certification exam, including:

  • Real-world scenarios that describe what you've learned in the context of service solutions. These include thought-provoking questions to challenge your thinking and understanding.
  • Section reviews for each chapter to help you zero in on what you need to know and practice exam questions.
  • A Real-World Guide to ITIL Skills. Key information and real-world examples organized around the actual day-to-day tasks and challenges you'll face in the field of IT Service Management.
  • Ability to assess what you've learned with challenging ITIL Foundation exam style questions.
  • Adobe Flash presentations that you can view and replay as many times as required, facilitated by certified ITIL trainers who  explain each of the topics and concepts of ITIL.
  • Materials developed on the specific syllabus and exam criteria – so that you can be confident in achieving exam success on your first attempt.

This new Expanded and Updated edition includes:

  • Content updated to match syllabus 5.3 (based on the current ITIL 2011 edition) - processes and other content areas all provided for in both the book and elearning presentations
  • More in-depth exam prep, e.g. answer guides for all exam questions
  • More content depth in a number of areas

Audience:

  • The ITIL Foundation course will be of interest to:
  • Individuals who require a basic understanding of the ITIL framework;
  • Individuals who need understanding of how ITIL can be used to enhance the quality of IT service management within an organization;
  • IT professionals or others working within an organization that has adopted the ITIL framework and who need to be informed about, or contribute to an ongoing service improvement programme.
  • A typical role includes (but is not restricted to): IT Management, IT Consultants, Help Desk Officers, Business managers, Service Desk and IT Support Staff

Which ITIL concepts are covered in this course?

The Foundation Certificate enables participants to understand the basic terms, concepts and relationships between the ITIL processes and functions.

  • The Service Lifecycle
  • Essential terminology
  • Service Strategy
  • Service Strategy Processes: Financial Management for IT Services, Service Portfolio Management, Business Relationship Management
  • Service Design
  • Design Coordination & Service Level Management
  • Service Catalog Management & Supplier Management
  • Capacity Management and Availability Management
  • IT Service Continuity Management & Information Security Management
  • Service Transition, Transition Planning & Support and Knowledge Management
  • Service Asset & Configuration Management
  • Change Management
  • Release & Deployment Management
  • Service Operation
  • Service Desk
  • Other Functions
  • Event Management
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Request Fulfilment & Access Management
  • Continual Service Improvement
  • The Seven-Step Improvement Process
  • Service Automation

 

Pre-requisites:

There are no pre-requisites for the Foundation prgoram but a basic IT literacy and knowledge of IT services is desirable.

Contact Hours:

The recommended minimum contact hours for the eLearning course is 18.

Delivery:

The program combines short presentations supported by accredited trainer audio.  There are also quizzes and exercises (marking scheme provided) to ensure learners are testing their knowledge and competency  to enhance understanding of key concepts. Revision questions and a mock examination help to prepare for the multiple-choice APMG examination.

This program is an eLearning Program, your access details to the eLearning course are in the book.

Program Materials:

  • Multimedia presentations;
  • Downloadable resources (PDF documents)
  • End of module review questions to assess your content knowledge; and
  • A full 40 question sample exam to assist in your exam preparation.

About the Examination:

  • It is recommended that students should complete at least 18 hours of personal study by reviewing the syllabus and the ITIL Foundation book in preparation for the examination.
  • The syllabus can be downloaded from:
  • http://www.itil-officialsite.com/Qualifications/ITILQualificationLevels/ITILFoundation.aspx
  • The exam is a closed book exam with forty (40) multiple choice questions.
  • Exam duration is a maximum 60 minutes for all candidates in their respective language
  • Pass score is 26/40 or 65%

Credits:

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units (PDUs) = 18

Is this course accredited?

Yes! APMG/CSME, the official ITIL accreditors, have accredited this course and the instructors who teach it as providing high-quality training in IT Service Management.

Editorial Reviews:

  • Read the book, took the online course and test, PASSED.
  • This ITIL exam prep book and course are an invaluable study aid for passing the ITIL® Foundation exam. Highly recommended.
  • I've been an IS project manager for over 10 years. I've studied ITIL® materials in preparation, but took no courses or workshops. I studied this book and its accompanying course for 10 days immediately preceding my exam. Read the book about 3 times.
  • I took the ITIL Foundation exam and got 98% of the questions correct. I think that the study tips in the book and course helped me get about 15-20 questions right that I might have otherwise missed. (your mileage may vary).
  • The book and course made me confident in sitting the exam, and is the best such book that I've come across.
  • Worth it especially since you have access to the online learning component asv well.
  • Good focus on ITIL's processes (things important to ITIL Foundation and passing the test that your experience in IT may not help you)
  • Highly recommended, I passed in one go!

 

*T&C for unlimited course access

Your course purchase is for one person - single license - for as long as you need to complete your course. You can not transfer your course seat to another person after you gained access to the online course component. Online access is suspended after 30 days of inactivity, but can be reinstated (free of charge) by emailing elearning support. After 90 days of inactivity, course access is cancelled. The purchase of enrolment extension is required to reinstate your course access.

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Service Level Management - Complete Certification Kit

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The Service Level Manager (SLM) is responsible for maintaining the service level agreement structure, including SLAs, OLAs and underpinning contracts. The SLM designs, maintains and reviews a structure for the process that covers the interactions of the people involved and the expected content of Service Level Management related documents. The SLM ensures that the repository of Service Level Agreements and supporting documentation is kept up-to-date and coordinates service level review meetings between Service Owners and support teams to review current targets and review service performance.

 

Throughout this complete certification program, you will gain in-depth knowledge of the critical elements of the Service Level Management process, beginning with an introduction to the process, terminology and general concepts. Before delving further into the role of the Service Level Manager, you will get fine-tuned in best practices for creating contracts, working with the service catalog, and, finally, the skills required to create and maintain effective relationships with customers and colleagues.

 

Learn How To:

1. Implement process design improvements identified

2. Collaborate with business and IT Groups to define, document and agree on service levels

3. Ensure that specific and measurable targets are developed for Services

4. Review underpinning contracts for impacts on Service Level Agreements

5. Make sure reports are produced for each service and that breaches of targets are highlighted, investigated and actions are taken to prevent their recurrence

6. Ensure that improvement initiatives identified in service reviews are acted on and progress reports are provided

7. Participate in reviews of service scope, associated, SLO/ SLAs, OLAs and other agreements on a predefined basis

8. Ensure that changes are assessed for their impact on service levels

9. Create and manage input for a Service Level Plan

10. Contribute to projects on details for Service Level Requirements

11. Report service metrics and service improvement initiatives to senior management

12. Build a robust reporting framework that will enable enhanced relationship management, operational efficiency and better monitoring of internal and external resources

 

Boost your career with this book, pass the included elearning course, and achieve your Service Level Manager certification.

 

About studying with The Art of Service:

 

Earn your certification on your terms. Whether you choose to learn online or classroom based, you can count on a challenging curriculum and a supportive learning environment. Quality is what you expect. You’ll get it—and a whole lot more.

 

Your Education is Top of Mind: As a working student, we know that you’re juggling the demands of family and work. So, you’ll study online at your own pace. From the day you enroll, you’ll see that it’s all about you. From your initial direct needs to passing your certification - we help you every step of the way. In addition, you’ll enjoy innovative technology. By accessing the online learning system, your book and tests, you’ll be learning from techniques that The Art of Service pioneered.

 

An Innovative Approach: Be part of an institution that has grown from an upstart in 2000 to becoming today’s leading eLearning provider for IT Professionals. Students study from more than 150 countries. Because you’ll be learning from trainers who have real-world experience, you’ll be able to apply what you learn in class one day to your job, the next. With learning streams at all levels, you’ll have choices and room to grow.

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146 Policies and Procedures Ready to Use - Best Practices in IT Policies and Procedures

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Easy-to-Use Practical Tactics & Instructions Based On Proven IT Management!

IT Service Management is a significant endeavor for any organization. Often, the organization must seek a standard, consistent way of creating processes and services with relatively little experience, or they are seeking ways of improving their current situation. In either case, you will typically find yourself at a loss for how to proceed, or know exactly what is required to do so. The Toolkit’s 146 resources have been designed to assist in the implementation and improvement of IT Service Management capabilities.

This Toolkit serves to act as a starting point on the road to successfully maintain and manage your IT Services. IT Service Managers who want to implement specially designed templates and guides which can be adopted or modified to meet specific needs need to look no further!

This toolkit provides answers to all of your IT Policies and Procedures questions and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of IT Policies and Procedures by offering a step-by-step, easy-to-follow roadmap. It also includes easy-to-use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements.

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce IT Policies and Procedures concepts and provide you with the tools to successfully create an IT Policies and Procedures culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

 

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

 

 

 

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s IT Policies and Procedures understanding and knowledge base.

 

 

The Complete Toolkit Includes:

    • Toolkit Roadmap- Policies and Procedures.doc
    • Policies and Procedures  Introduction Presentation.ppt
    • Creating Policies.doc
    • Implementing Plan_Project Plan.doc
    • Mapping Responsibilities.doc
    • Metrics and Reports.doc
  • Service Management & Enterprise Architecture Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Service Management and Enterprise Architecture.doc
    • Service Management Policy Template.doc
    • Service Management Plan.doc
    • Business and IT Service Mapping.doc
    • Service Management Process Definitions and Interfaces.doc
    • Business Justification Template.doc
    • Service Management Portfolios.doc
    • Service Level Requirements Template.doc
    • Service Definition.doc
    • Service Options Template.doc
    • Service Agreements.doc
    • Service-based SLA Template Example.doc
    • Customer-based SLA Template Example.doc
    • Corporate-based SLA Template Example.doc
    • Operational Level Agreement Template Example.doc
    • Underpinning Contracts Template Example.doc
    • Bonus Documents:
      • Building a Business Case.doc
      • The Evolving Service Catalog.doc
  • Service Design & Transition Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Service Design and Transition.doc
    • Architecture Principles.doc
    • Architecture Description.doc
    • Functional Specification Template.doc
    • Technical Specification Template.doc
    • Functional Design.doc
    • Technical Architecture.doc
    • Interface Design Specification.doc
    • Detailed Design Template.doc
    • Tool Requirements Template and Planner.doc
    • Resource Plan.doc
    • Service Report Description Template.doc
    • Service Review Template.doc
    • Service Design Package Template.doc
    • Bonus Document:
      • Cost Model Template.xls
  • Recruitment, Training & Development Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Recruitment, Training and Development.doc
    • Documenting Roles.doc
    • Service Desk Skills.doc
    • Telephone Skills Standards - Service Desk.doc
    • Customer Service Standards - Service Desk.doc
    • Internal Job Application for Job.doc
    • Job Candidate Evaluation.doc
    • Organizational Behavior Survey.doc
    • Managing Change Effectively.doc
    • Organizational Change.doc
    • Service Changes.doc
    • Performance Management Process Checklist.doc
    • Performance Improvement Plan.doc
    • 360 Degree Feedback.doc
    • Topgrading.doc
    • Reward Systems.doc
    • Bonus Document:
      • Develop your leadership skills.doc
  • Infrastructure & Configuration Management Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Infrastructure and Configuration Management.doc
    • AS-BUILT Template.doc
    • Availability Requirements.doc
    • Availability Plan.doc
    • Business Continuity Strategy.doc
    • Reciprocal Arrangements.doc
    • Emergency Response Plan.doc
    • Salvage Plan Template.doc
    • Capacity Plan.doc
    • Incident Log.doc
    • Incident Management Policy.doc
    • Service Outage Analysis.doc
    • Component Failure Impact Analysis Worksheet.doc
    • Configuration Policies.doc
    • Known Error Template.doc
  • Risk Management Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Risk Management.doc
    • Risk Management Policy.doc
    • Risk Management Framework.doc
    • IT Risk Assessment Planning.doc
    • Business Impact Assessment.doc
    • Risk Assessment and Control Form.doc
    • Risk Assessment Questionnaire.doc
    • IT Risk Assessment Score Sheet.doc
    • Generic Project Risk Assessment.doc
    • Checklist on assignment of risk ownership.doc
    • Conducting a Risk Management Review.doc
    • Risk Register.xls
    • Risk Assessment Template.doc
    • Bonus Documents:
      • Management of Risk Framework M_O_R.doc
      • Risk Management - Prince2.ppt
      • Risk Management - Project Management.ppt
  • Information Security and Privacy Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Information Security and Privacy.doc
    • Information Security Policy.doc
    • Service Organization Policy.doc
    • Information Classification Policy.doc
    • Access Control Policy.doc
    • Operational Security Policy.doc
    • Commercial Software Policy.doc
    • Securing Equipment Policy.doc
    • Cyber Crime Policy.doc
    • E-Commerce Policy.doc
    • Application Development Policy.doc
    • Facilities Policy.doc
    • Personnel Policy.doc
    • Security Incident Policy.doc
    • Security Service Requirement.doc
    • Security Audit Template.doc
    • Security Incident Template.doc
    • Security Management Review Doc.xls
    • Bonus Documents:
  • Building an Effective Information Security Policy.doc
  • Thirty-two Instant Messaging Rules - Best practices to keep you in business and out of court.doc
      • CRAMM.doc
      • IM Viruses and Security.doc
  • Change and Release Management Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Change and Release Management.doc
    • Change Policy.doc
    • Release Policy.doc
    • Service Testing Policy.doc
    • Release Packages.doc
    • Request for Change Template.doc
    • Change Review Doc.xls
    • Category Definition.doc
    • CAB Meeting Minutes.doc
    • Change Schedule Template.doc
    • Bonus Document:
      • Request for Change Workflow.doc
  • Project Initiation & Management Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Project Initiation & Management.doc
    • Service Transition Policy.doc
    • Business Plan.doc
    • Project Brief.doc
    • Project Initiation.doc
    • Project Scope.doc
    • Business Requirements and Feasibility Study.doc
    • Budgeting Guidelines.doc
    • Charging Policies.doc
    • Charging Template.xls
    • Lessons Learned Template.doc
  • Communication & Internet Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Communication and Internet.doc
    • Communication Plan.doc
    • Email & Internet Usage Policy.doc
    • EXAMPLE - AITP Model Electronic Mail (E-mail) Policy.doc
    • EXAMPLE - Electronic-Mail and Voice-Mail Use Guidelines.doc
    • EXAMPLE - Notre Dame Australia Policy - Email and Internet Usage.doc
    • Workplace e-mail and Internet use - employees and employers beware.doc
    • Finance & Administration Agency Guide to Best Practice - Email & Internet Usage.doc
    • Instant Messaging Use Policy.doc
    • EXAMPLE Instant Messaging Policy.doc
    • Bonus Documents:
      • Web 2.0 in KM.doc
  • Data Retention, Storage, & Archiving Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Data Retention, Storage, and Archiving.doc
    • Data Retention Policy.doc
    • Knowledge Management Policy.doc
    • Bonus Docments:
        • Example - University of Massachusetts - Records Management Data Retention Standards.pdf
        • Example - Adams State College Data Handling and Storage Policy.pdf
  • Personnel Management Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Personnel Management.doc
    • Expense Policy (UK FORMAT).doc
    • Example Expenses Policy - Staffordshire University.pdf
    • Employee Reimbursement form.xls
    • Reimbursement Audit Program.doc
    • Building the Right Team.ppt
    • Persuasion Self-Assessment.doc
  • Continuous Improvement Folder
    • Document Roadmap - Continuous Improvement.doc
    • Objectives and Goals.doc
    • Policies objectives scope.doc
    • Developing KPIs.doc
    • Reports and KPI Targets.doc
    • Improvement Management Tool.xls
    • Bonus Document:
      • Values, Vision and Mission Statements.doc




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In total, the end result—the 146 Policies and Procedures Ready-to-Use – Best Practices in IT Policies and Procedures Toolkit—reflects close to a full-time employee’s week of work.

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis and the collating of information we find.

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IT Governance Metrics, Measurements and Benchmarking Toolkit – Second Edition

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Optimize your IT Operations & Strategic Planning Today!

IT Governance is an organizational framework focused on the discipline of managing resources, processes, and people. IT Governance is an integral part of enterprise governance and consists of the leadership, organizational structures, and processes that ensure that the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives. This toolkit takes a look at how to make IT Governance matter and function properly for you. The tools allow you to align governance decisions with business strategy and metrics with ease. Why should you consider IT Governance? IT Governance is related to good business performance and can aid in your IT strategic planning processes.

Effectively develop and maintain business goals and objectives with this second edition Toolkit! Business owners and managers looking to reduce IT risk and raise the profile of their IT department need to look no further! If you are looking to implement a framework which optimizes IT operations, assists in performance measurement, and ultimately align IT and business objectives, then this is the toolkit for you!

This second edition toolkit provides answers to all of your IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking questions, and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of IT Governance Metrics, Measurements and Benchmarking by offering a step-by-step, easy-to-follow roadmap. It also includes easy-to-use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements.

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking concepts, and provide you with the tools to successfully create a workable IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

IT GOV ppt

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

IT GOV template

 

 

IT GOV assessment

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking understanding and knowledge base.

IT GOV roadmap


The Complete Toolkit Includes:

  • IT Governance Introduction Presentation.ppt
  • Toolkit Roadmap: IT Governance.doc

Step 01 Getting Started

  • Introduction to IT Governance.ppt
  • Introduction to Measurements and Metrics.ppt
  • Introduction to Benchmarking.ppt

Step 02 Implementation

  • Business Justification Template.doc
  • Objectives and Goals.doc
  • Policies Objectives Scope.doc
  • Defining Requirements.doc
  • Implementation of Governance Framework.doc

Step 03 Business Strategy

  • ROI Presentation.ppt
  • ROI Calculator.xls
  • Business and IT Service Mapping.doc
  • Budgeting Guidelines.doc
  • Business Continuity Strategy.doc
  • Bonus Document: Example Common Business Objectives.doc

Step 04 Risk, Conformance, and Compliance

  • Risk Management Policy.doc
  • Risk Management Framework.doc
  • IT Risk Assessment Planning.doc
  • Business Impact Assessment.doc
  • Risk Assessment and Control Form.doc
  • Risk Assessment Questionnaire.doc
  •  IT Risk Assessment Scoresheet.doc
  • Generic Project Risk Assessment.doc
  • Conducting a Risk Management Review.doc
  • Risk Register.xls
  • Process Assessment.xls

Step 05 IT Strategy

  • Architecture Principles.doc
  • Architecture Description.doc
  • Service Management Policy Template.doc
  • Service Management Plan.doc
  • Service Definition.doc
  • Service Level Requirements Template.doc
  • Service Options Template.doc
  • Service Agreements.doc
  • Availability Plan.doc
  • Emergency Response Plan.doc
  • Capacity Plan.doc
  • Information Security Policy.doc
  • Service Design Package Template.doc

Step 06 Change

  • Change Policy.doc
  • General Change Procedure.doc
  • Request for Change Workflow.doc
  • Types of Change Request.doc
  • Contents of Change Documentation.doc
  • Service Changes.doc
  • Change Authority.doc
  • CAB Meeting Minutes.doc
  • Business Plan.doc
  • Business Requirements and Feasibility Study.doc
  • Project Brief.doc
  • Project Scope.doc
  • Project Initiation.doc
  • Organizational Behavior Survey.doc
  • Organizational Change.doc
  • Managing Change Effectively.doc
  • Change Schedule Template.doc

Step 07 Business and IT Balance

  • Process Definitions and Interfaces.doc
  • Tool Requirements Template and Planner.doc
  • Individual versus Organizational Knowledge.ppt

Step 08 IT Operations

  • Short Overview of Six Sigma.doc
  • Simple Six Sigma Calculator.xls
  • Developing KPIs.doc
  • Reports and KPI Targets.doc
  • Service Report Description Template.doc
  • Improvement Management Tool.xls
  • Bonus Document: Example - Availability Reporting.doc
  • Bonus Document: Example - High Level Goals and KPIs.doc
  • Bonus Document: Example - KPIs of the value of Service Management.doc
  • Bonus Document: Examples of Service Quality Metrics.doc

Step 09 Bonus Documents

  • COBIT
    • COBIT Easy Explanation Fact Sheet.doc
  • ISO 9000
    • ISO 9000 Easy Explanation Fact Sheet.pdf
    • ISO 9000 Presentation.ppt
    • Model of a Process-Based Quality Management System.doc
  • ISO 20000
    • ISO 20000 - Introduction Presentation.ppt
    • ISO 20000 FAQs.doc
  • ISO 27000
    • ISO 27000 Presentation.ppt
    • Mapping - Terms and Usage.doc
  • ISO 38500
    • ISO 38500 Easy Explanation Fact Sheet.pdf
    • ISO 38500 Presentation.ppt
  • ITIL®
    • ISO IEC 20000 and ITIL Presentation.ppt
    • ITIL Easy Explanation Fact Sheet.pdf
  • MOF
    • MOF Easy Explanation Fact Sheet.doc
  • Risk Management
    • Risk Management - Prince2.ppt
    • Risk Management - Project Management.ppt
  • Six Sigma
    • Simple Six Sigma Calculator.xls
    • Six Sigma- Short Overview.doc
    • Six Sigma Defining Requirements.doc
    • Six Sigma Presentation.ppt
    • Starter Kit Document.doc


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It took us 40 man-hours to produce the IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking Toolkit: analyzing, processing, selecting, and building the “flow” from the countless documents and data we have produced over months (at least $50/hour that comes to $2,000 of time).

In total, the end result—the IT Governance Metrics, Measurements, and Benchmarking Toolkit – Second Edition—reflects close to a full-time employee’s week of work.

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis and the collating of the information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

Purchase now and you have an instant ROI by having the right information at your fingertips and saving hundreds and hundreds of hours of research time.

Price: $497.00 Special Price: $297.00

ITSM in Internal Clouds Toolkit

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Discover the Endless Possibilities of Effective IT Service Management.

Cloud Computing has become a popular trend in business operations within the decade. With all its benefits and growth potential, cloud computing still has an immediate downside – the lack of standards and regulations regarding its use, design, or interoperability with other technologies. As a result, there is no clear direction for any organization to take regarding its adoption of cloud-based IT services. Essential characteristics for successful cloud computing processes are:

  • On-demand self-service.
  • Broad network access.
  • Resource pooling.
  • Rapid elasticity.
  • Measured service.

The purpose of this toolkit is to look at cloud computing from an ITSM perspective and understand what must be maintained within the service environment to successfully leverage cloud resources.

This on-trend Toolkit focuses on how adopting ITSM processes can effectively improve your internal cloud infrastructure. This Toolkit is your one-stop-shop to successfully develop, manage, and maintain your cloud computing services using the proven method of ITSM.

The Toolkit serves to act as a starting point. It will give you a clear path to travel. It is designed to be a valuable source of information and activities.

This toolkit provides answers to all of your ITSM in Internal Clouds questions, and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of ITSM in Internal Clouds by offering a step-by-step, easy-to-follow roadmap. It also includes easy-to-use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements.

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce ITSM in Internal Clouds concepts, and provide you with the tools to successfully create a workable ITSM in Internal Clouds culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

 

 

 

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

 

 

 

 

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s ITSM in Internal Clouds understanding and knowledge base.

 

 

The Complete Toolkit Includes:

Step 1- Getting Started:

  • Toolkit Introduction Presentation - ITSM in Internal Clouds.ppt
  • Toolkit Roadmap - ITSM in Internal Clouds.doc
  • Overview of ITSM Concepts Presentation.ppt
  • Overview of Cloud Computing Concepts.ppt
  • Scale Units.doc
  • ITSM for Internal Clouds.doc

Step 2 - Business Management:

  • Building a Business Case.doc
  • Business and IT Service Mapping.doc
  • Metrics and Reports.doc
  • ROI Presentation.ppt
  • ROI Calculator.xls
  • Business Continuity Strategy.doc
  • Improvement Management Tool.xls

Step 3 - Change Management:

  • General Change Procedure.doc
  • Request for Change Workflow.doc
  • Change Policy.doc
  • Service Testing Policy.doc
  • Request for Change (RFC) Template.doc
  • Change Schedule Template.doc
  • Organizational Behavior Survey.doc
  • Organizational Change.doc
  • Managing Change Effectively.doc

Step 4 - Risk, Conformance, and Compliance:

  • Risk Management Policy.doc
  • Risk Management Framework.doc
  • IT Risk Assessment Planning.doc
  • Business Impact Assessment.doc
  • Risk Assessment and Control Form.doc
  • Risk Register.xls
  • Process Assessment.xls

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In total, the end result—The ITSM in Internal Clouds Toolkit— reflects over a full-time employee’s fortnight work.

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis, and the collating of the information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

Purchase now and you have an instant ROI by having the right information at your fingertips and saving hundreds and hundreds of hours of research time.


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Six Sigma Toolkit - Second Edition

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Effectively manage your organization with a proven methodology for improving key processes, and a business philosophy which focuses on continuous improvement.

Why should you adopt Six Sigma processes?

  • Defined process for problem solving.
  • Proven methodology to solve problems.
  • Consistency with results.
  • Focus on the “bottom line,” which encourages credibility/support from the top of the organization.

Adopt a Proven Methodology for Operational Problem Solving

Six Sigma is a methodology used in quality management and improvement. Fundamentally, the concepts and tools of Six Sigma are not new, but they have been packaged to support quality management more effectively and efficiently. Six Sigma highlights setting exceptionally high objectives, and collecting and analyzing data precisely as a way to reduce deficiencies in products and services. Six Sigma can be perceived in a variety of ways:

  • A statistical measure of variation.
  • Methodology for improving key processes.
  • A “tool box” of quality and management tools for problem resolution.
  • A business philosophy focusing on continuous improvement.
  • An organized process for structured analysis of data.

Effectively manage and maintain business goals and objectives with this second edition Toolkit! Business owners and managers wanting to think more analytically about operational methods, and how processes can be more effective need to look no further! If you are looking to implement a process that measures quality and strives to achieve perfection, then this is the toolkit for you!

This second edition toolkit provides answers to all of your Six Sigma questions, and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of Six Sigma by offering a step-by-step, easy-to-follow roadmap. It also includes easy-to-use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements.

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce Six Sigma concepts, and provide you with the tools to successfully create a workable Six Sigma culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

1.Six Sigma_PPT

 

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

 

2. Six Sigma template

 

3. Six Sigma Calculator

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s Six Sigma understanding and knowledge base.

 

4. Six Sigma roadmap 2


The Complete Toolkit Includes:

  • Toolkit Roadmap - Six Sigma
  • Step 1
    • Six Sigma Introduction Presentation
    • Introduction to Six Sigma
    • Six Sigma Workshop
  • Step 2
    • Building a Six Sigma Organization
    • Business Justification Template
    • Communication Plan
    • ITIL Process Assessment
    • Maturity Score
    • Objectives and Goals - Six Sigma
    • Policies Objectives Scope - Six Sigma
    • Defining Requirements
    • Perspectives on Requirements
    • Process Mapping
    • Short Overview of Six Sigma
    • Principles of Data Collection
    • Principles of Descriptive Analysis
    • Principles of Variation Analysis
    • Simple Six Sigma Calculator
    • Principles of Root Cause Analysis
    • Technique Templates:
      • Technique - 5 Whys
      • Technique - Pareto Charts
      • Technique - Fishbone Diagrams
      • Technique - C&E Matrix
      • Technique - Stratified Data Chart
      • Technique - Scatter Plots
      • Technique - Hypothetical Testing
      • Technique - Regression Analysis
    • Six Sigma Fact Sheet

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In total, the end result—the Six Sigma Toolkit – Second Edition—reflects over a full-time employee’s fortnight work.

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis and the collating of the information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

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Disaster Recovery Best Practices - Templates, Documents and Examples of Disaster Recovery in the Public Domain PLUS access to content.theartofservice.com for downloading

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Book Benefits: Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Disaster Recovery. Covers the full lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment. Includes access to content.theartofservice.com with job aids, utilities, and full downloads of all documents.

Drive Better Productivity and Increase Success with this book – Starting Now
 
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You’re investing in Disaster Recovery for one reason: to drive major performance improvements across your entire organization. Disaster Recovery Best Practices will help you do just that. Drawing on their experience with dozens of implementations, The Art of Service offers expert guidance on every aspect of Disaster Recovery design and implementation, with results-focused best practices for every area of the organization touched by Disaster Recovery, including sales, government, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, and IT.

This is information you’d otherwise have to pay a consultant $300/hour to get...information you won’t find in any other book!

The Art of Service walks you through developing a comprehensive and effective implementation strategy, followed by tactics and specifics to overcome every challenge you face. Through this book and its companion website, content.theartofservice.com, The Art of Service provides templates and extensive resources–all part of the Content on Demand system that gives your organization maximum results from Disaster Recovery.

- Achieve higher end-customer satisfaction and dramatic productivity gains
- Use the Art of Service Maturity Model to assess readiness, fill gaps, and gain early, deep user adoption
- Overcome “people, product, and process” pitfalls that can limit the value of your Disaster Recovery
- Learn which procedures, processes and documentation are right for your implementation
- This book’s start-to-finish roadmap for success can be used by companies of all sizes in all industries for executives, team leaders, implementation team members, developers, and users throughout the business.

From Overwhelmed to Empowered - Changing the way you find Answers - This book includes access to content.theartofservice.com an on-demand digital library to Search, Download, Learn, Edit and Use direct applicable documents for technology and business professionals, eliminating spending money and time on self-development.

Every day, many large enterprises run hundreds of projects using The Art of Service Documentation. For these companies, The Art of Service is ideal for their custom project development, quality assurance, IT Service Management implementation, virtual training, or documentation.
   
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Disaster Recovery Best Practices - Templates, Documents and Examples of Disaster Recovery in the Public Domain PLUS access to content.theartofservice.com for downloading

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Book Benefits: Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Disaster Recovery. Covers the full lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment. Includes access to content.theartofservice.com with job aids, utilities, and full downloads of all documents.

Drive Better Productivity and Increase Success with this book – Starting Now
 
Discover Real-World Best Practices—Without Paying Expensive Consultants
 
You’re investing in Disaster Recovery for one reason: to drive major performance improvements across your entire organization. Disaster Recovery Best Practices will help you do just that. Drawing on their experience with dozens of implementations, The Art of Service offers expert guidance on every aspect of Disaster Recovery design and implementation, with results-focused best practices for every area of the organization touched by Disaster Recovery, including sales, government, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, and IT.

This is information you’d otherwise have to pay a consultant $300/hour to get...information you won’t find in any other book!

The Art of Service walks you through developing a comprehensive and effective implementation strategy, followed by tactics and specifics to overcome every challenge you face. Through this book and its companion website, content.theartofservice.com, The Art of Service provides templates and extensive resources–all part of the Content on Demand system that gives your organization maximum results from Disaster Recovery.

- Achieve higher end-customer satisfaction and dramatic productivity gains
- Use the Art of Service Maturity Model to assess readiness, fill gaps, and gain early, deep user adoption
- Overcome “people, product, and process” pitfalls that can limit the value of your Disaster Recovery
- Learn which procedures, processes and documentation are right for your implementation
- This book’s start-to-finish roadmap for success can be used by companies of all sizes in all industries for executives, team leaders, implementation team members, developers, and users throughout the business.

From Overwhelmed to Empowered - Changing the way you find Answers - This book includes access to content.theartofservice.com an on-demand digital library to Search, Download, Learn, Edit and Use direct applicable documents for technology and business professionals, eliminating spending money and time on self-development.

Every day, many large enterprises run hundreds of projects using The Art of Service Documentation. For these companies, The Art of Service is ideal for their custom project development, quality assurance, IT Service Management implementation, virtual training, or documentation.
   
The Art of Service Content-on-Demand content.theartofservice.com is unique. With The Art of Service, users get the documents and the knowledge they need and IT managers get complete visibility and management control over project deployments. Get Your Access Today.

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Customer Service Foundation Level Full Certification Kit - Complete Skills, Training, and Support Steps to Remarkable Customer Service

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Practical, concise help for dealing with customers: The book and its accompanying elearning course and Certification begins with outlining several customer service techniques and describes each of them. Some are very basic and some are more advanced, particularly those that deal with dealing with frustrated customers or preventing problems with customers from escalating and becoming a time consuming event.

But that's not only the meat of the book or what makes the book so useful. The book contains dialogues between customers and staff, showing how the various situations SHOULD be handled. Each one is to the point and the information for each one can be assimilated and learned from in a few minutes. This book can be used in so many ways. You can sit and read it through. You can browse it and just read the parts that you want help with. You can read one or two dialogues and learn one or two skills a day, since each segment really stands on its own. It's a great source book to use in customer service training because it's all there -- techniques, and how to use them. It's quick to learn from. And it's real. The dialogues will strike home with you. There is no better, faster book to learn how to deal with customers (especially the difficult customers), it's a one-stop-shop for ideas. You won't be disappointed: Customer service is for everyone.

How can you inspire and rejuvenate your workforce? For supervisors who need to motivate their teams to provide excellent customer service or for trainers in the workplace, this book will be welcome. By feeding manageable exercises that they can take back to work, you'll see creativity born of empowerment that can make a difference. Applicable in any job, accomplishments in customer service are those that the new employer will want to hear about. Addressing the dynamics of employees dealing with both internal and external customers, there are many ten-minute exercises, appropriate for new employee orientation, warm-ups for staff meetings, or launches for all-day training times. This book provides practical hints and easy-to-reproduce hand-outs without overloading the reader with theory. It's easy to satisfy low expectations and it doesn't mean very much. You have to create customers who tell others how wonderful you are. You want everyone in your company focused on customers. Focused on creating stories your customers can tell others. This book gives you the road map to do it, all wrapped up in easy lessons.

- Reveal Your Best Customer: reveal customer insights allowing you to provide more value.

- Improve Customer Service with Customer Service Training.

- Use it for Customer Service Rep call center and customer support training programs.

- Create Expert, reliable customer support.

The customer service foundation program consists of 7 modules. Each containing various presentations, exercises and quizzes designed to boost your knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of customer service.

The modules cover the following concepts:
-Introduction to customer service
-Critical Elements of Customer Service
-Customer Service - First Impressions
-Why Bother with customer service?
-Fundamentals
-Handling Complaints
-Targets & Goal Setting

 

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Customer Service Expert Level Full Certification Kit - Complete Skills, Training, and Support Steps to the Best Customer Experience by Redefining and Improving Customer Experience

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This Customer Service Expert Level Certification Kit builds on the knowledge and understanding of the essential skills and qualities required by Customer Service supervisors and managers.

More than six out of ten people employed in customer-facing sales and service roles say that their manager’s behavior towards them affects the level of customer service they deliver. The behavior of line management has a direct impact on the quality of service and brand experience that is extended to customers.

Over three out of ten claim that the relationship with their manager ‘always’ impacted upon the customer experience they deliver.
The relationship between managers and their teams is so bad that one in ten customer-facing workers consider it to be the biggest threat to their job security – as big a worry as the possibility of their jobs being outsourced.

There's a host of indications that line managers are not fulfilling their responsibilities towards their teams. In short, managers are not managing.
The extent to which managers are reneging on their responsibilities is illustrated by the fact that four out of ten managers communicate with their teams for just 30 minutes or less in an average day. Just over half of managers were found to converse with their teams for an hour a day or less.

Given the apparent general lack of communication between manager and team, is it any wonder that the common perception of frontline workers is of individuals ill-equipped to resolve customer issues and unable to effectively communicate an organization’s products, services and brand values?

More often than not, Customer Service Supervisors and Managers have been promoted up the chain of command, and began in an entry level Customer Service position.  Too rarely does this promotion come with corresponding training and support to ensure our supervisors and managers are equipped to deal with their new role.

It is time for a change. This book gives practical, concise help for delivering exceptional customer service: the book and its accompanying eLearning program and Certification pave the way for the best customer experience by redefining and improving customer experience--An Innovative Strategy by the Industry Leader in Effective Customer Service Training.

The customer service expert eLearning program consists of 8 modules. Each containing various presentations and quizzes designed to boost your knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of customer service.

The modules cover the following concepts:
-Introduction to the program
-Components of Service Delivery
-Teams
-Leadership
-Working Together
-Customer Relations
-Employee Reward & Recognition
-Exam Preparation

There are also 3 mandatory exercises that must be completed as part of the eLearning program. They are designed to test your critical thinking when to it comes to applying your knowledge of customer service to various real-life situations that may occur.

This book and its accompanying eLearning program covers:

The ABCs of supervising others, Making the transition, Tips for learning the ropes quickly, Alpha leaders, Team building, Organizational shifts, Types of teams, Defining a team, Team norms, Beckhart’s activities, Managing team conflict, Types of conflict, Team member preparation, Team leader's role in managing conflict, Learning to be a leader, What is a learning organization?, Are you a lifelong learner?, Five disciplines, Discipline : personal mastery, Discipline : mental models, Strategies for working with mental models, Discipline : shared vision, Discipline : team learning, Discipline : systems thinking, Coaching customer service staff, Defining coaching – two schools, Coaching skills, Interpersonal communication skills, Critical coaching skills, Powerful questions and active listening, Learning styles and principles, Adult learning principles, The coaching model, Coaching problems, A personal action plan, Motivating your workforce, What is motivation, The carrot, the whip and the plant, Maslow and herzberg’s motivational theory, Fear and desire, Setting goals, Work values, What do we value in work?, Managing customer service, Identifying change, Identifying your customers, Creating excellence, Positive responses, Active listening, Effective complaint management, Glossary, Answer guide, Certification, Customer service certification pathway, How does the certification pathway work?, How do i achieve my expert level?, References

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Big Data Toolkit

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Leverage the benefits of Big Data, the new competitive advantage. 

Data intimidation is a thing of the past, as we make way for the age of Big Data. The use of a new strain of analytical tools designed to manage the vast quantity of data produced by companies around the world, known as Big Data, is on the verge of becoming a vital and well-known application in all leading businesses.

Big Data is a revolutionary trend that has taken over the IT world. For the first time, it has us thinking about how to collect and analyze more data, rather than wanting to reduce data completely. Data intimidation is long gone as we welcome data increases in order to gain a deeper insight into our businesses and embrace company growth.

BUT where do you begin? What are the benefits and goals?  How can you get your managers on board to support and promote this function? How do you manage the different requests and expectations of your users? What staff should be involved? What kind of KPIs and measures are involved? What documentation do you need? 

This toolkit provides answers to all these questions and is designed to provide a guiding hand to assist you in improving your knowledge and understanding of Big Data by offering a step-by-step, easy to follow roadmap. It also includes easy to use templates, assessments, presentations, and documents that can be adapted to your organization's requirements. 

The Art of Service has designed this toolkit to introduce Big Data concepts and provide you with the tools to successfully create a workable Big Data culture in your organization.

The PowerPoint presentations can be used to educate staff as the basis for management presentations or when making business cases for implementation.

The supporting documents and templates will help you identify the areas within your organization that require the most activity in terms of change and improvement, and will provide a starting point when designing and implementing new designs, policies, and procedures.

The additional resources will enable you to improve your organization’s Big Data understanding and knowledge base.

The Complete Toolkit Includes:

  • Big Data Toolkit
    • Toolkit Roadmap for Big Data.doc
    • Big Data Introduction Presentation.ppt
    • Big Data Development Process.doc
    • Understanding Big Data.ppt
    • Data Storage for Big Data.ppt
    • Begin with the Data for Big Data.ppt
    • Data Analytics for Big Data.ppt
  • Big Data Design Documents
    • Big Data-Availability Requirements.doc
    • Big Data-Cost Model Template.xls
    • Big Data-Detailed Design.doc
    • Big Data-Functional Design.doc
    • Big Data-Hardware-Software Resource Requirements.doc
    • Big Data-Interface Design Specification.doc
    • Big Data-Technical Architecture.doc
    • Big Data-Security Service Requirement.doc
  • Big Data Infrastructure Support Documents
    • Big Data-AS-BUILT Template.doc
    • Big Data-Business Continuity Strategy.doc
    • Big Data-Component Failure Impact Analysis Worksheet.doc
    • Big Data-Emergency Response Plan.doc
    • Big Data-Service Outage Analysis.doc
  • Big Data Project Initiation Documents
    • Big Data-Budgeting Guidelines.doc
    • Big Data-Business Plan.doc
    • Big Data-Business Requirements and Feasibility Study.doc
    • Big Data-Change Management Process.doc
    • Big Data-Charging Policies.doc
    • Big Data-Charging Template.xls
    • Big Data-Project Initiation.doc
    • Big Data-Project Scope.doc
    • Big Data-Request for Change Form.doc
    • Big Data-Risk Assessment Template.doc
    • Big Data-Risk Register.xls
    • Big Data-Service Based SLA.doc
  • Big Data Bonus Documents


 

Purchase the Big Data Toolkit Risk-Free Today!

The moment you purchase the collection, the factsheets, presentations, and tools included above will be available to you through a simple download!

Need help justifying your investment?

It took us 80+ man-hours to produce the Big Data toolkit: analyzing, processing, selecting, editing, and building the 'flow' from the countless documents and data we have produced over months (at least $50/hour that comes to over $4,000 of time).

In total, the end result—the Big Data toolkit—reflects over a full-time employee’s fortnight work.

At the Art of Service, we know how important your time is for you and we also understand that nobody can substitute you in certain scenarios. This is why we give you the results without you having to do all the legwork; we do the researching and the analysis and the collating of information we find.

All you have to do is take the outcome of all that work and use it as part of your project—to make it unique to your job, project, or task at hand in a way that only you can do.

Purchase now and you have an instant ROI by having the right information at your fingertips and saving hundreds and hundreds of hours of research time.

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