SERVICE INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT (SIAM) ADVISORY SERVICES

IT TRANSFORMATION – ACCELERATED ASSESSMENT AND DESIGN

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service overview

Harrison’s SIAM Advisory Service offers a scalable diagnostic assessment that aligns with the global
Service Integration and Management (SIAM) standard. This assessment, with complexity tailored
to the client’s needs, prepares a viable roadmap and operating model to accelerate the client’s SIAM
implementation and support their digital transformation.
Harrison acts as the client’s representative to oversee end-to-end availability and quality of IT support for business processes across multiple service providers. Our Service Integration and Management
(SIAM) service provides the governance framework to manage service levels, monitor performance, and
ensure accountability across suppliers.

Service features

  • Advising and consulting clients on service integration and management (SIAM)
    frameworks and best practices.
  • Develop a shared vision and target operating model for the SIAM framework.
  • Outlines various sourcing models used in SIAM.
  • Creates and documents standard processes and procedures for the organisation’s
    SIAM framework.
  • Establishes organisational and governance structures for the SIAM framework.
  • Provides guidance on tooling and automation processes for SIAM.
  • Facilitates the transformation to a SIAM operating model.
  • Establishes standard processes to rapidly resolve incidents involving multiple
    suppliers.
  • Develops standardised procedures to follow up on issues that arise across multiple
    suppliers.
  • Establishes governance and standards for SIAM framework.
  • The scope of work can be customised to meet each client’s specineeds and
    requirements.
  • The division of responsibilities between the client and Harrison will always allow for
    ibility.
  • Aligned to IT4IT framework.
  • The system offers optional integration capabilities with ServiceNow ITSM.
  • Standardising service levels across multiple IT vendors to ensure consistency.
  • Implement a standardised process for onboarding and offboarding suppliers within
    the scope of the project.

Service benefits

  • Obtain buy-in from stakeholders and ensure the strategy aligns with their goals.
  • Grasp the advantages, breadth, and magnitude of the SIAM framework.
  • Pinpoint opportunities to enhance quality, ency, and transparency.
  • Build a shared understanding, agreement, and unity of purpose.
  • To achieve optimal results, utilise proven methods and focus on the most important
    elements for success.
  • We offer independent advisory and consulting services, including gap analysis to
    identify areas for improvement.
  • Develop a comprehensive roadmap customised to meet the specirequirements
    of the client.
  • Gaining a precise and well-coordinated understanding of the current state.
  • Uni point of contact for resolving incidents and problems across multiple suppliers.
  • The ability to decide which SIAM processes to outsource or retain can greatly
    enhance ibility.
  • ServiceNow optimisation.
  • Achieve transformation with low risk by following established procedures.
  • Investment safeguarding by adhering to ITIL and IT4IT standards ensures the
    protection of your investments.
  • Streamlining governance processes to minimise internal expenses associated with
    supplier management.
  • Enhanced business integration by aligning SLAs across multiple suppliers.
  • Gain valuable supplier performance insights by leveraging end-to-end visibility and
    key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Enhances innovation speed by rapidly onboarding new suppliers.

how our planning

service operates

SIAM Advisory offers insights and graphical representations to enhance comprehension of decision-making processes related to SIAM. This includes:

SIAM Scoping Scenarios
SIAM Sourcing Scenarios
High Level SIAM Target
Operating Model
High Level SIAM
Transformation Roadmap

The results are generated through four stages, involving multiple workshops with client representatives and Harrison’s SIAM consultants to de specic deliverables:

1. Initial SIAM Conversations &
Awareness Meetings
2. SIAM Diagnostic Advisory
Workshop Preparation
3. SIAM Diagnostic Workshop
Execution
4. SIAM Diagnostic Advisory
Report

Harrison’s recommended approach emphasises the importance of a gradual, phased transition and transformation for effectively implementing a SIAM function and ITSM solutions. It is crucial for your organisation to actively participate and collaborate with service providers’ staff during these stages to ensure timely results.

set-up and
migration

Understanding the mechanics of the set-up or migration service:
Harrison’s SIAM implementation project consists of stages, with each stage producing deliverables that undergo review by both the parties involved and the client prior to moving on to the next phase.

1. Start Up/Advisory: The Harrison team is committed to collaborating with you
to grasp your organisation’s strategy, the SIAM end-state vision, and the
associated implications and principles of this partnership to align
theexpectations of both your organisation and Harrison’s teams. Additionally, we will assist you in creating a comprehensive transition and transformation plan, as well as nalising project logistics.
2. Validate: Harrison is responsible for conducting comprehensive Transition
Planning and Due Diligence activities to verify the scope, dependency mapping,
and risk proling of the services.
3. Adopt: Harrison will primarily concentrate on implementing the Harrisonstandard SIAM framework, deng processes, procedures, and work instructions.
4. Enable: Harrison is responsible for establishing the SI team according to the
agreed SIAM Operating Model by implementing shadow support and primary
support functions.
5. Sign Off & Steady State Handover: Harrison will collaborate with your
organisation, the SI team, and the service providers to verify, assess, implement,
and authorise the use cases of processes before transitioning them to steady
state operations.

why harrison

IT consulting that isn’t scripted, templated or one we did earlier We’ve regularly experienced a hit and run culture of IT service providers that create an amazing sales experience.

Yet still, the delivery has fallen short, leaving the customer to pick up the pieces, often at a considerable cost.
At Harrison, our IT consulting is all tailored to the individual customer needs and desired outcomes. We utilise all of the best practice frameworks (ITIL, COBIT, SIAM, Prince2, Agile, etc.) across the full enterprise combining the best elements to ensure your goals and objectives are met.

Our interactions with clients embody a friendly and pragmatic ethos, centred around people. We take a holistic 360-degree approach to our work, deliberately avoiding silo thinking.
Choose Harrison for IT consulting with bespoke solutions, meticulously crafted to align with your unique business
objectives.

contact us

Please send your requirements to info@harrisonjamesit.com.
Alternatively, if you wish to discuss your requirements in more detail,
please send us the following information and we will be happy to
contact you:
1. Your organisation name
2. The name of this service
3. Your name and contact details
4. A brief description of your business situation
5. Your preferred timescales for starting the work

www.harrisonjamesit.com
+44 203 667 3666
info@harrisonjamesit.com
Guildford, United Kingdom