3. The Service Management Office (SMO) project at COTEMAR
The complex, specialized and strategic services provided by COTEMAR to its main client (PEMEX) make IT service management a vital element for planning business activities and processes as well as for communication between internal users to guarantee quality and efficiency in the delivery of its services and products. More specifically, with regard to IT services, the personnel involved became aware of the fact that not everything was technology and they realized the importance of understanding the strategy, tac-tics and business processes. Thus, the IT area began to undergo a transformation from a technical support and operational area to a strategic area focused on quality and business services.
COTEMAR became aware that Service Management (SM), and mostly ITIL, were the best practices to be adopted to guarantee service and continuous improvement for its superintendence. Ini-tially, they implemented Service Desk (SD), a solution which offers a single point of assistance for internal and external users, enabling the firm to improve its performance. Next, the consolidation of service management, initiated with the SD, required a strategy and an improvement stage, backed up by 11 Service Management (SM) processes and an evolutionary work period of nearly 4 years, which led to the implementation of the following IT service management:
(1) Service Desk + Incident & Problem Management + Request ful-fillment (2007–2008); (2) the basis for Configuration & Release & Change and SL Management (2008–2009); (3) Event and Access