Key Book Benefits: Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Service Catalogs. Covers the full lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment through operations and support - Includes access to content.theartofservice.com with job aids, utilities, and full downloads of all documents. Drive Better Productivity and Increase Success with this book – Starting Now Discover Real-World Best Practices—Without Paying Expensive Consultants You’re investing in Service Catalogs for one reason: to drive major performance improvements across your entire organization. Service Catalog Best Practices will help you do just that. Drawing on their experience with dozens of deployments, The Art of Service offers expert guidance on every aspect of Service Catalog deployment, with results-focused best practices for every area of the organization touched by the Service catalog, including sales, marketing, customer service, finance, legal, and IT. This is information you’d otherwise have to pay a consultant $300/hour to get...information you won’t find in any other book! The Art of Service walks you through developing a comprehensive and effective implementation strategy, followed by tactics and specifics to overcome every challenge you face, including internal politics. Through this book and its companion Web site, content.theartofservice.com, The Art of Service provides questionnaires, step-by-step guides, and extensive resources–all part of the Content on Demand system that gives your organization maximum results from Service Catalogs. - Achieve higher end-customer satisfaction and dramatic productivity gains - Use the Art of Service Maturity Model to assess readiness, fill gaps, and gain early, deep user adoption - Overcome “people, product, and process” pitfalls that can limit the value of your Service Catalogs - Learn which procedures, processes and documentation are right for your implementation - This book’s start-to-finish roadmap for success can be used by companies of all sizes in all industries for executives, team leaders, implementation team members, developers, and users throughout the business.