scholarly journals Improving IT Support by Enhancing Incident Management Process with Multi-modal Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 431-446
Author(s):  
Atri Mandal ◽  
Shivali Agarwal ◽  
Nikhil Malhotra ◽  
Giriprasad Sridhara ◽  
Anupama Ray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Modal Analysis ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
It Support

Deriving In-Depth Knowledge from IT-Performance Data Simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Petruch ◽  
Gerrit Tamm ◽  
Vladimir Stantchev
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
International Telecommunication ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Typical Data ◽  
It Support

Knowledge of behavioral patterns of a system can contribute to an optimized management and governance of the same system, or of similar systems. While human experience often manifests itself as intuition, intuition can be notoriously misleading, particularly in the case of quantitative data and subtle relations between different data sets. This article augments managerial intuition with knowledge derived from a specific byproduct of automated transaction processing performance and log data of the processing software. More specifically, the authors consider data generated by incident management and ticketing systems within IT support departments. The authors’ approach utilizes a rigorous analysis methodology based on System Dynamics. This allows for identifying real causalities and hidden dependencies between different datasets. The authors can then use them to derive and assemble knowledge bases for improved management and governance in this context. This approach is able to provide more in depth insights as compared to typical data visualization and dashboard techniques. In the experimental results section, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. It is applied on real life datasets and log files from an international telecommunication provider and considered different improvements in management and governance that result from it.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Implementing the ITIL Problem Management Process in IT Support Organisations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Michael Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
It Services ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Problem Management ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure ◽  
It Service ◽  
It Support ◽  
Organisational Factors

<p>Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework and an integrated set of process orientated best practices for providing IT infrastructure support, managing and delivering IT services. As organisations in the digital age rely on Information Technology for their daily operations as well as future growth and success, the ITIL framework is widely adopted. The Problem Management process is one of the Service Operation processes defined by the ITIL framework. Whilst the adoption of the ITIL framework is often for the benefit of both the organisations that provide IT support and services and the organisations which consume them, the challenges of implementing this framework and its processes is often left to the IT support organisations. This paper focuses on the ITIL Problem Management process; it reviews the principles and objectives of this IT Service Management process from an IT Governance stand point, and its implementation in the context of organisational IT services and operations. This paper collects and presents the views and insights from IT professionals who routinely worked with ITIL processes. As empirical research, this paper seeks to identify and prioritize the challenges associated with implementing the ITIL Problem Management process by the IT support organisations; it also seeks to understand the ways and methods to overcome these challenges. This paper identifies 23 unique challenges in 6 categories including “the understanding”, “the buy-in”, “the investment”, “the interrelation”, the “execution” and “the organisational factors” which are associated with implementing the ITIL Problem Management process. The ranking of these challenges is also finalized. This paper further offers suggestions for IT support organisations to overcome these challenges. It suggests that IT support organisations may first address and overcome the challenges associated with the understanding and the buy-in of the ITIL Problem Management process, and use an overall top-down approach and effective organisational communication as they try to implement the ITIL Problem Management process.</p>

scholarly journals Towards the Control and Prevention of Waste in IT Service Operation Using Fuzzy Logic: Focus in Incident Management Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Wadie Berrahal ◽  
Rabia Marghoubi ◽  
Zineb El Akkaoui
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
It Service Management ◽  
It Services ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
It Service ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
It Operations

All production lines are continuously confronted with the phenomenon of waste, especially in IT operations. A waste is assessed in terms of the required resources and the cost employed to solve the problem behind it. Eliminating the waste in daily operations is essential to improve IT service management. This article aims to provide an estimation of the level of potential waste, where waste generation trends are provoked by the activities of IT service management processes. We are going to focus particularly on the possibility of applying a Lean improvement process to IT services processes when using fuzzy logic method. We specifically demonstrate our contribution through the application of fuzzy analysis to the incident management process. This approach also aims at developing a theoretical and pragmatic model and promoting the knowledge of IT experts. In order to make our framework as generic as possible, concepts of IT operations, including the incident management, are inspired by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the most prominent framework for IT service governance according to the current literature.

scholarly journals Development of the Incident Management Model in an Enterprise Information System Based on a Three-Tier Architecture Using Key (Relevant) Metrics

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
A. A. Mikryukov ◽  
A. V. Kuular
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Enterprise Information System ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Target Values

The aim of the study is to increase the efficiency of the incident management process in an enterprise information system. The article analyzes the work on improving the incident management process. The expediency of applying a number of key metrics is substantiated, which makes it possible to assess the degree to which the process indicators achieved their target values, that is, assess the quality of the incident management: the speed of solving the incident, the degree of satisfaction of service users and the availability of channels for processing user requests. A comparative analysis of the existing model of the incidents’ management process and the proposed model is performed. The proposed model, which includes an additional support line, can significantly improve key indicators of incident handling and resolution process. The scientific novelty of the developed proposals lies in the integrated use of a combination of process, technological and service metrics, which provides the construction of a more effective model of incident management.Materials and methods. The theoretical basis of the study is the analysis of recommendations for the use of metrics in accordance with: the management methodology of the COBIT information technology, recommendations for building an incident management process based on the ITIL library of information technology infrastructure, as well as the results of scientific research by Russian and foreign scientists and publications of leading organizations in the field of management incidents in enterprise information systems. The analysis of incident management process metrics is carried out. The mathematical methods of quantitative measurement of key metrics are used. The analysis of statistical data received by the technical support service for incident management processes was carried out.Results. The use of key metrics is justified, with the help of which the task of promptly responding to incidents, their subsequent processing and resolution is solved in conditions of ensuring guaranteed access to channels for processing calls. A three-tier incidents’ management model was developed, which made it possible to more effectively solve the problem of managing their processing based on the integrated use of key metrics.Conclusion. The study revealed the shortcomings of the existing model of the incident management process. The analysis of metrics used in existing models of the incident management process is carried out. The choice of a set of relevant metrics is substantiated, the complex application of which allowed us to develop a more effective incident management model that meets both the requirements of service consumers and the requirements for the operation of an information system. The developed model provides improved quality of incident processing (speed, completeness, reliability).A distinctive feature of the developed model is the use of objective quantitative characteristics obtained on the basis of relevant metrics of the incident management process, which made it possible to substantiate proposals for improving the existing incident management model in the enterprise information system.

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