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Service management: Service catalogues as the starting point
Service catalogues are a key component within the service level manager's 'toolkit' but are often an afterthought behind better known products such as service level agreements, operational level agreements and service improvement plans, says Stephen Griffiths MBCS CITP, managing director of Datadeck. In this article, he outlines ten reasons to implement a service catalogue.
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