As a former Kifinti Solutions Consultant, I am quite familiar with Kifinti Solutions, having developed, streamlined, and implemented my best practices and latest solutions on a contract basis for Kifinti Solutions, a Frontrange Business Partners and now Ivanti Business Partner.
These days I prefer working directly with clients, eliminating the business partner overhead, and allowing me to deliver more, while focusing on my best practice system. The testimonials speak for themselves.
Ivanti HEAT ISM Best Practices Consultant since 1996
former Kifinti Solutions Consultant
“ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR IVANTI IMPLEMENTATION?“
You aren’t. Not until you talk to me! GUARANTEED!”
TestimonialS from the City of Brampton
The City of Brampton was a19 Consulting‘s main account while on contract for Kifinti Solutions, prior to founding the a19 Best Practice System. Among the a19 Best Practices implemented were Change Notifications, SLA Indicator, Email Summaries and Templates, a19 Auto Ticket Generator, SCCM Integration, Software Asset Management with License Reconciliation, and over 19 Service Request Offerings including HR Onboarding and Offboarding Service Requests.
Overall, call and email volumes dropped by over 50% upon implementation of the a19 Self Service and a19 Request Offering Best Practices.
Everyone else said it couldn’t be done
In addition to the IT Service Desk implementation, and Self-Service Kiosks, a19 Consulting implemented a Parking Booking & Reservation system for the Municipal Services Department’s Ivanti CRM System.
“Gregor was able to implement what everyone else at Kifinti Solutions said couldn’t be done! A booking and reservation system for our parking authority. Now citizens of the City are able to reserve daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly parking passes. Gregor delivered what other consultants said was impossible.“
— Shelley, City of Brampton, Municipal Services Manager
PRO-ACTIVE INSTEAD OF RE-ACTIVE
Brampton, Ontario – Canada’s “Flower City” – is also Canada’s second fastest growing city. One-third of the population has moved in within the last ten years.
When a municipality grows rapidly the city services and support systems can suffer, or even collapse, without the proper leadership and support.
No longer a small town, Brampton needed to provide its constituents with big city services. A mandate came from the mayor and the city council for a new proactive approach to municipal services.
The mandate was given to the Senior Management Team, with Rob Meikle, Brampton’s new Chief Information Officer, as the lead. The focus was to overhaul the city’s customer service strategy, from top to bottom and move quickly to make the necessary changes. “One of the first things I asked my staff,” says Meikle, “was for metrics on the volume of calls and the type of calls coming to the IT Help Desk so that we could have a pulse on what was happening. Shockingly none of that information existed.”
Meikle described the key issue as not only generating statistics but changing the way the city government did business. He says: “I set a goal to create a culture of customer service that emphasizes that regardless of how small the item you are working on, or how large, the main thing is to provide pro-active, excellent service.”
Meikle adds, “We believe that customer service is an integrated delivery supply chain. So we describe our vision as a combination of providing excellent services to both internal city workers and to the external customers who deal with the city. You add those two together and you get excellent municipal services. This for me was a mindset and a cultural change.”
Meikle says one of the key changes was re-branding the IT Help Desk as the IT Service Desk. He adds, “a help desk implies, break, fix and react. Our goal now is to proactively manage our business so that the services that we deliver and enable continue in a seamless and more than acceptable fashion.
“I realized,” says Meikle, “that if I’m going to drive customer service transformation that I needed to start in my own backyard. The implementation of a robust IT service management system would be fundamental to our success.”
“We have approximately 70 locations across the city,” says Ann Perry, Senior Advisor, IT Service Management. “This includes everything from fire stations, transit locations, recreation centres, public facing service counters, works departments, etc.
“For the most part, IT systems support and enable our internal business partners to provide those services to the citizens which should appear seamless, unless, of course, something goes wrong. This is why it was critical to implement an IT Incident Management solution that could monitor and manage those incidents and requests with speed and accuracy.”
Says Ms Perry, “We had already implemented ITSM software from HEAT. However, to improve our internal service delivery with ITSM, we turned to Kifinti Solutions, an Ontario based company that specializes in helping customers implement and integrate ITSM solutions.
“Kifinti’s flexible approach worked well and helped our team understand what we really need to be more efficient and effective in our day to day operations. Kifinti has also maximized ITSM capabilities far beyond our expectations.
“Kifinti’s services have helped us integrate the HEAT ITSM modules to manage our Incident, Changes and Asset Management processes. This integration has provided us with a better understanding of our day-to-day operations and produced metrics to identify service gaps so we can focus our efforts on improvements to our IT service delivery and support.”
It’s a long way from those days when Meikle first arrived. Lots of information and analysis now exist that didn’t before.
The Kifinti implementation provides a host of reporting possibilities on a regular basis, all important for keeping the people who run Brampton up to date. The system provides analytical reports on a monthly basis and even an executive dashboard, a top of the screen panel that lets people see at a glance what’s happening and what’s changing.
Says Meikle “The strategy in Brampton is now to anticipate problems and fix them before they happen; to be proactive instead of reactive. And that is now our definition of success.”
Press Releases by former Kifinti Solutions Consultant
a19 Consulting releases a19 Asset Scanner | Apple iOS Mobile App | Ivanti Service and Asset Manager
Nov 20, 2020
Scanning Assets with Ivanti Service Manager and Ivanti Asset Manager just got easier! No special hardware required. All you need is an iPhone or iPAD. An Ivanti ITSM first!
Nov 09, 2020
Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant publishes Android Mobile Application in the Google Play Store to make Barcode Asset Scanning with Ivanti Service Manager easier than ever.
Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant releases a19 Best Practices iOS Mobile App
Oct 18, 2020
The a19 Best Practices iOS Mobile Application offers Ivanti Service Manager and Ivanti Asset Manager Best Practices, Latest Solutions, Tips & Tricks
Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant releases a19 Best Practices Android Mobile App
Oct 13, 2020
The a19 Best Practices Android Mobile Application offers Ivanti Service Manager and Ivanti Asset Manager Best Practices, Latest Solutions, Tips & Tricks
Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant launches ITxM Health Check Audit
Sep 29, 2020
Providing Ivanti Best Practices (formerly HEAT ITSM), since 1996, Gregor now focuses on his company a19 Consulting and provides Ivanti Professional Services.
Sep 24, 2020
The a19 UAT Test Scripts module significantly improves your Ivanti Service Manager Implementation, upgrades, and collaboration internally, and with your Ivanti Consultant.
Ivanti Asset Manager Best Practice System Released
Dec 13, 2019
Ivanti Consultant has released the Ivanti Asset Manager Best Practice System to complement the Ivanti Service Manager Best Practice System leveraging Ivanti Service Manager (HEAT) and Asset Manager experience since 1996
Ivanti HEAT Neurons Podcast Episodes
Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant releases a19 UAT Test Scripts Module for Ivanti Best Practices System – Independent ITSM Podcast covering Ivanti Service Manager ISM HEAT Latest Solutions & Best Practices
Q & A. Separate Ivanti Service Manager (ISM) instance for AP? – Independent ITSM Podcast covering Ivanti Service Manager ISM HEAT Latest Solutions & Best Practices
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