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Implementing Your ITSM Environment Without Waste is Essential for Surviving in the Current Economic Downturn

Published: August 18 2009, 10:32 AM
by Robert Stroud

I recently attended the itSMF Japanese conference, a excellent event with almost 1,000 delegates over two days in Tokyo.  As I have come to expect, the event was exceptionally well run with great sessions on a variety of topics. While in Japan I met with a number of Japanese companies who are moving their ITSM implementations to the next level and are leveraging the service lifecycle defined in ITIL Version 3.  One of the quotes the editor chose in a recent interview I did with ZDNET in Japan encapsulates my thoughts in this area: “Cost reduction efforts is a ‘must issue’ for any firm both in Japan and the United States, so it is required to ensure the right products are being delivered to the right customers in a timely fashion, and to also ensure their IT systems are being effectively utilized to promote business.” Click here to read the article - note that it is in Japanese.

The use of IT in the current economic environment and driving value was a topic of discussion with not just the press, also with the customers and at the itSMF Japanese conference.
At the itSMF Japanese conference I presented my session on leveraging the CMDB\CMS and I was pleased that the session was very well attended. There were numerous questions following the session and into the evening at the reception following the event. Based on the level of interest, I wanted to make the presentation available for download (see below). Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments.

 

By: Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud serves as VP and as Service Management, Cloud Computing and Governance Evangelist at CA Technologies. Robert also serves as an International vice president of ISACA, is part of the Framework committee and was the former chair of the COBIT Steering Committee. Robert also serves on the itSMF...
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3 people have left comments:

Hello Rob-san,

Thank you for interesting blog entry on your visiting Japan. Website below is a Japanese version of report site on itSMF Japan Conference/Expo.

www.ca.com/.../campaign.aspx

That was a great opportunity to lean how ITIL CMS/CMDB benefit on this bad economy. CMS/CMDB is getting one of major trend in Japan. Also, since enterprises are experiencing 2nd year of J-SOX initiative, it is also cost consuming / must do process, so automation and process standardization using ITIL will benefit as well.

Best regards, Tok

Posted by: Tok Kuniwa (Japan) | August 20, 2009 12:51 AM

Hi Rob

Where in your presentation and CMDB plans do you define services?  Also, I noticed the general roadmap was technology centric.

Where do you see the softer service elements fitting in - such as business processes?

Finally, in my opinion the implementation of a CMDB should be self-funding in that the benefits should outweigh the project costs.

Do you have any insights or opinions on this view?

Ian

Posted by: Ian Clayton | August 21, 2009 4:58 PM

Ian,

Thanks for your comments.  You highlighted that not all is on the slides as they are the basis for the speech so I welcome the opportunity to reinforce a few points.

Firstly, you and I both agree that the implementation of the CMDB should and must be based on a sound business case that delivers ROI in it's own right. This was discussed at length in my speech and in the many discussions that followed.  This was also true of the focus and integration with the Service.  Consensus with the resultant discussions was that in Japan (and elsewhere) is that the primary CI should be the service (I welcome more comments on that).

Based on the activity levels i am seeing in the industry at the moment the CMDB is clearly within focus in many organisations as the next step in their ITSM journey.  That said each step must be balanced with benefit and value and leveraging the CMDB to map to Business Services is an place to start a discussion.

Robert

Posted by: Robert Stroud | August 22, 2009 1:03 AM

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