A cross-functional team is designing a value stream to support the development of a new financial service. Some members of the team are suggesting that multiple value streams are needed.
Which factor would MOST LIKELY influence the need for multiple value streams?
An internal service provider of a large retail organization is working on a major update of the self-checkout terminals used in the supermarkets. The update includes new hardware, software, and integration with a new card payment system. How should the service provider ensure that the update is sufficiently tested?
An organization wants to make some changes to individual and team objectives. The new objectives need to align to the organization’s goal of anticipating the needs of its customers.
Which concept is the key element of this alignment?
During a service design workshop, a development team aims to tailor their solutions to the needs and circumstances of the target users. What is the BEST approach for the team to achieve this?
A technology firm has implemented a new ticketing system for managing customer support requests. However, the firm is facing challenges in effectively prioritizing and managing these tickets due to varying levels of urgency and complexity. Some high-priority issues are being delayed, while less critical requests are being addressed too soon, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficiencies in the workflow. How should the firm improve this situation?
A healthcare organization is implementing data analytics to analyze patient data. Why is data analytics important in this context?
A service has been in use for a number of years, and is not being developed or updated. Customers are not happy because they think that the applications that support the service are missing important functionality.
Which practice is most likely to identify this issue and initiate improvement actions?
An organization uses value streams to help them deliver consistent services, and they use ‘service integration and management’ to manage many different suppliers.
How does ‘service integration and management’ work with the organization’s value streams?
A service desk uses triage to ensure they work on the most urgent tasks first. This sometimes causes user satisfaction issues, because low priority requests can wart a long time before anyone starts to work on them.
What is the BEST way to manage this issue?
An organization is writing its test strategy in order to define the test levels and test types that are in scope for testing. In the past, the organization has experienced service disruptions after some releases of a particular application. These disruptions were happening because the application caused other applications to generate errors.
Which test level should the organization focus on to address this weakness?
Which approach may help to improve incident resolution times by moving support activities from specialist teams to frontline teams or users?
When verifying that an incident has been resolved, which is an example of value as perceived by a user?
An internal service provider has made the service desk a single point of contact for all user queries, including incidents, service requests, complaints, and compliments. To ensure a fair allocation of the service desk resources, a common rule for processing all incoming queues has been agreed: "first in, first out." It has soon become apparent that some incidents reported by users spend too much time waiting to be processed and triaged by the service desk. This leads to delayed incident resolution and negative business impact. What is the BEST way to improve the situation?
A large organization has a centralized service desk, and many different teams that help to resolve incidents and manage service requests. They also use many different suppliers to support these activities.
What is the minimum number of different value streams that they need, in order to manage this work?
A large organization is planning to integrate multiple systems into its existing IT infrastructure. What approach should the organization consider to achieve effective integration?
Which of the following involves consideration of the skills and availability of both internal and external resources?