{"id":182,"date":"2014-03-29T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-04-10T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:58:40","slug":"writing-an-organizational-assesment-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Writing an Organizational Assesment from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itilcommunity.com\/modules.php?name=Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;t=3157&amp;highlight\">ITIL Community Forum<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"question\"><span class=\"label\">Q:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently studied ITIL, learned the stages involved and took\u00a0the exam.However now the time comes that I&#8217;m supposed to apply this in a written report on the implementation of ITIL v3&#8230;.<br \/>\nDoes anyone know just how on earth this is done?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"answer\"><span class=\"label\">A:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A good way to approach to such an assignment is to look at:<\/p>\n<p>1) Where are they now (what best practices do they currently have in place)?<\/p>\n<p>2) What processes do they not have implemented that ITIL says they should?<\/p>\n<p>3) What is a road map to implement the unimplemented ITIL processes?<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t answer question one, then you can&#8217;t really be asked to answer question two. If you can&#8217;t answer questions one and two, then don&#8217;t attempt to answer the third question.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to further breakdown the answer to the questions, ask yourself about each question:<\/p>\n<p>1) What personnel issues will need to be addressed (role assignments, authority of people, job descriptions, etc) in answering the question?<\/p>\n<p>2) What technology and tools will be affected (ticketing, inventory, knowledge base, etc)?<\/p>\n<p>3) What processes need to be addressed (flow of information, hand-off of responsibilities, notifications, consultations, etc)?<\/p>\n<p>By breaking it down into the basic Deming questions centered around People, Technology, and Process you can attack this assignment with some structure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the ITIL Community Forum Q: I&#8217;ve recently studied ITIL, learned the stages involved and took\u00a0the exam.However now the time comes that I&#8217;m supposed to apply this in a written report on the implementation of ITIL v3&#8230;. Does anyone know just how on earth this is done? A: A good way to approach to such &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/?p=182\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itiltopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}