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Service Catalog - any ideas on best practice?

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  • June 18, 2020
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steve.calder-macphee
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I work for a SME manufacturing company, most of my users have limited IT knowledge and the struggle to stop them raising an Urgent Incident for everything is real. I am getting them used to having a Service Catalog, but right now I have around 90 items and even grouping into H/W, S/W etc makes it look pretty cluttered, plus they need to add details multiple times if they want several items (e.g. when on-boarding).

Anyone got any approaches to their catalog I could use to streamline?

For me and Amazon approach would be good, you choose a bunch of items and then at the end you add the common info, like where it's going and who will approve.

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BarclayRae
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  • August 10, 2021

Catalog should really be designed to relate to services and not just products - then it should get more intelligent usage as it will be more relatable to users. Ideally this is best achieved and understood by engaging with your users/customers to find out how they view and name your services, and what their actual priorities are (ie not just all shouting loudest). If the relationship is built on more trust and shared understanding then there should be less issues around priorities. 

 

You can find a step by step approach to building a catalogue at my pages on ITSM Goodness.

 

 


manns
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  • August 10, 2021

In my experience, ideally the structure should be based on what employees look for, and how, when they have needs. So getting their input, as a sample of use cases, will help formulate the necessary “logic” and service - rather than product - groupings. Additionally, the quality of the search capability will help take the pressure off the structure if the aim is to get employees to what they need as efficiently as possible.

As @BarclayRae stated - he has good guidance on his website :)

https://www.barclayrae.com/resources/itsm-goodness/