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Building Your Service Catalog

What drives service level agreements, operational level agreements, underpinning contracts, and support center processes? How can the support center communicate to customers that it is truly customer-focused and genuinely interested in putting the customer first?

A service catalog is critical to establishing what services the support center provides and who provides them. It helps establish and maintain customer expectations—and guides the support team.

This course focuses on the concepts and principles of creating, implementing, and maintaining a service catalog. Walk away with the knowledge needed to build and publish a service catalog for the support organization.

What You Will Learn

  • The interdependencies between support center processes and the service catalog
  • How to validate service demand
  • The elements of the service catalog
  • The importance of measuring service catalog performance
  • The metrics and key performance indicators used to measure service catalog performance
  • How the HDI Support Center Standard and HDI Support Center Maturity Model are used to evaluate service catalog effectiveness
  • How to implement the service catalog
  • How to use key performance indicator data to evaluate the service catalog performance
  • How to maintain the service catalog
  • How to report service catalog performance

Who Should Attend?

  • Anyone who wants to gain a thorough understanding of the service catalog and learn how to develop and publish service catalogs for their organizations

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to the Service Catalog

  • Service Industry Catalogs
  • Introduction to the Service Catalog
  • Why Have a Service Catalog

Unit 2: The Support Center and the Service Catalog

  • Service Portfolio and the Service Catalog
  • The Service Catalog
  • Benefits and Critical Success Factors

Unit 3: Planning and Design

  • Linkage between Service Portfolio Management and Service Catalog Management
  • Roles, Responsibilities, and Relationships
  • Development Lifecycle Overview
  • Planning and Design Activities

Unit 4: Development

  • Development Lifecycle Overview
  • Development Activities

Unit 5: Release and Deployment

  • Release and Deployment Overview
  • Implementation
  • Marketing

Unit 6: Operations

  • Operations Overview
  • Measure and Evaluate
  • Reporting
  • Continuous Service Improvement and Maintenance
Calendar

Virtual Classroom


Member Price: $545 | Price: $595

These scheduled courses provide students with live, instructor-led training delivered by HDI faculty. Using web conferencing software and an audio bridge, students interact with the instructor without ever leaving their desk.

  • Minimize the impact on your daily schedule by only training two hours a day for three days.
  • Learn only what you need to with targeted, topic-specific courses.
  • Ask questions and interact with the instructor.

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Public Classroom


Member Price: $595 | Price: $645

Facilitated by a faculty member, this one-day, public course allows students to actively participate in exercises and discussions as well as network with peers from other companies.

  • Maintain adequate coverage in your support center by staggering training dates.
  • Focus on learning by being out of the office.
  • Structured discussions facilitate networking and learning from real-world experiences.
  • To learn more about public classroom training, contact an account manager or call 1.800.248.5667.

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Onsite


HDI can train your team at your facility, eliminating individual travel costs and putting more control in your hands.

  • Control class size and pick training dates that accommodate your business schedule.
  • Focus on your organization’s key issues and pain points.
  • Save money. With groups of eight or more, this option is often more cost effective.
  • To learn more about this program, contact an account manager or call 1.800.248.5667.

Date Location Course Member
Price
Price
7/16 - 7/18/13 HDI , Virtual Classroom Building Your Service Catalog $495 $545 Show class details
Price shown above includes a $50 Early Bird discount that will expire on June 05, 2013.
10/15 - 10/17/13 HDI , Virtual Classroom Building Your Service Catalog $495 $545 Show class details
Price shown above includes a $50 Early Bird discount that will expire on September 04, 2013.
 

HDI offers courses in cities throughout North America. Don’t see a class near you or when you would like to attend? Contact your Account Manager or find an HDI Partner to discuss your needs.


HDI Support Center Analyst

Date: 6/7 - 6/9/11

Location: Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel
5855 West Century Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045

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