[Use Case Templates] IT Service Management ⚙️

Hi Community 🤗

We are happy to say that our Use Case Templates series continues 🥳 Today, we’d like to introduce you to the IT Service Management template.

An IT Service Management team provides quality and timely service, enabling other teams and individuals to do their job and constantly improve processes. Wrike can help establish and manage IT service processes. This setup uses Information Technology Infrastructure Library – the most commonly used ITSM framework – to provide a base configuration and sample data to demonstrate one of the ways an ITSM team can work in Wrike.

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Please note that now not only account owners and admins can use these templates, but also those users who have the right to create spaces 😊

IT Service Management Template

This template space consists of a folder structure with sample folders, projects, and tasks, custom workflows, request forms, reports, a calendar, and a dashboard. It also contains a useful step-by-step guide on how to get started with this flow.

Step 1. Streamline Intake

Service Management starts with setting up an efficient channel for incoming requests. With Wrike’s request forms you can structure incoming work and automatically distribute requests to assignees or queues for prioritization and processing.

This setup contains two request forms:

• Contact IT Service Desk
• New Employee Onboarding request

You can try them out right away from the + menu. Account admins can edit them in the Account Management section of the Settings menu.

• Submitting a request form will create a task in the Requests and Incidents folder, while IT technicians can get various types of alerts in addition to monitoring relevant dashboards.
• You'll notice that all answers given in the form landed either directly into the task description or various additional custom fields. 
• You can work on the task per your team's process to see how it matches your current workflow, e.g. transitioning to the different statuses.

📌Tip: Getting or granting an approval before work takes off can be helpful in your process. Notice that some of the custom workflows in this template contain an approval step.

📌Tip: You can also add or edit custom fields to capture and track additional information that your organization needs.

Step 2. Plan Teamwork

It is important to keep your projects transparent and updated for both your team and stakeholders. Calendars help visualize work items allowing you to get the big picture of the important events and projects at a glance.

📌Tip: Calendars’ External link is one of the features that keep external stakeholders updated. 

Step 3: Manage the Queue and Execute

Traffic control can be a major limiting factor for an IT Service team. To ensure prompt responses and timely resolutions, your team needs to be able to easily find new requests and work that has been assigned to them. 

By using dashboards in Wrike, you can create a visual board that shows all the relevant information at a glance. Your agents and engineers can be assigned tasks automatically or alerted about incoming requests via Wrike or other channels.  

This template includes an IT Team Dashboard that gives an overview of all tasks and projects that require IT Team’s attention. 

Step 4: Monitor and Report

Reporting on your team's progress and achievements provides food for thought when comparing outcomes vs. estimates. Reports will help keep growing request trends in check and adjust accordingly.

This setup includes several reports like ITSM: Incident by priority or ITSM: Change by Type that slice and dice team operations stats.

Would your IT Team or Service Team benefit from this use case template? Please comment below and share your thoughts 👇

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