An organization experiences a high level of variation in the demand for its development services. The organization has the capacity to fulfil the overall level of demand but wants to reduce the variation so that it does not have to prioritize work at peak times.
Which action would BEST help the organization influence the demand for its services?
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?
An organization has received complaints from customers regarding incident resolution times. The organization is using value stream mapping to visualize the activities involved in restoring service following an outage. The team has designed an optimized flow that begins with the incident being generated by a monitoring tool, and ends when service is restored. Leadership is concerned that this approach has failed to provide the insight needed to reduce delays.
Which is the BEST action this team can take to address leadership’s concern?
A large organization is planning to integrate multiple systems into its existing IT infrastructure. What approach should the organization consider to achieve effective integration?
A service provider is struggling to meet the incident resolution objectives for some incidents. Reports generated by the service management tools show that the resolution time is often longer than agreed in three types of situation: incident resolution requires a change to be implemented, incident resolution involves the internal software development team, incident resolution involves an external supplier. What should the service provider do to improve the situation?
A technology organization is undergoing a strategic expansion, targeting emerging markets. The organization's current workforce has not had experience in dealing with the innovative products which are part of the new markets. What is the BEST strategic approach that the organization should adopt to resolve this situation?
To stay ahead of its competition, an organization’s leadership team is focused on ensuring that product innovations reach customers quickly. A team is discussing how it can leverage value stream mapping in support of this goal. The team wants to improve the entire end-to-end value stream.
Which improvement is MOST LIKELY to improve the entire value stream?
An organization with established processes for managing incidents, changes, and problems, receives a high volume of calls from users complaining that their issues are not being resolved efficiently. What should the organization do FIRST to start to improve the situation?
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?
When verifying that an incident has been resolved, which is an example of value as perceived by a user?
TESTED 16 Oct 2025