Technology Service Catalog Maturity Assessment
A 65-question diagnostic across 9 domains that evaluates how the service catalog is governed, fed, structured, run on its platform, offered and fulfilled, maintained, retired, adopted and measured, including AI services,...
Overview
A 65-question diagnostic across 9 domains that evaluates how the service catalog is governed, fed, structured, run on its platform, offered and fulfilled, maintained, retired, adopted and measured, including AI services, reusable platform offerings and access by AI agents. Written for the Service Catalog Manager or Head of IT Service Management who needs to answer: does our catalog give every consumer, human or agent, an accurate view of what IT offers, and does it drive how services are requested and delivered?
Detailed Description
A service catalog should be the front door to IT. In many organizations it is a list on the intranet that nobody trusts: entries are out of date, prices and service levels are missing, requests still arrive by email, approved AI tools are nowhere to be found, and retired services leave behind users, licenses and integrations nobody cleaned up.
This assessment checks whether the catalog has a policy, a defined process with clear accountability, a governing board, owners and funding. It checks whether new services are justified, reviewed for overlap, forecast and readied before launch; whether entries follow a data standard, are easy to find and request, and show the right items to the right people; and whether the platform is controlled, integrated, secure and readable by AI agents as well as people. It covers whether offerings carry service levels, costs and change linkage, including AI tools and reusable platform services such as pipeline templates; whether entries stay accurate as services and their AI components change; whether retirements are clean; whether people actually use the catalog; and whether adoption, speed, satisfaction and shadow IT drive improvement.
Each question is scored on three dimensions: Documented, Implemented and Effective. This separates practices that exist only on paper from practices that run but are never written down, and from practices that run but are never measured.
Assessment Details
Audience
Service Catalog Manager / Head of IT Service Management / Service Owners / Platform and Portal Owners. Secondary: Service Desk and Fulfillment Leads, IT Finance, Enterprise Architects, AI Governance and Platform Engineering leads.
Purpose
Shows whether the catalog accurately represents what IT delivers and drives how services are consumed, where entries go stale or fulfillment breaks down, whether AI tools and platform services are offered under control, and which fixes will most raise adoption, speed and trust.
Effort
Initial assessment: 10-14 hours of interviews with the catalog owner, service owners, fulfillment and service desk leads, platform owners, IT finance and AI governance. Evidence gathering: 2-3 weeks, including a portal walk-through, an agent interface test and samples of entries, requests and change records. Reassessment: 6-8 hours.
Cadence
Annually. Reassess after an ITSM platform change, a major portfolio or reorganization change, the introduction of AI agents that request or fulfill services, or a significant drop in portal adoption.
Framework Alignment
KPIs
- Catalog Coverage - Share of in-scope live IT services published in the catalog. Target: 100%.
- Fulfillment Within Service Level - Share of catalog requests fulfilled within the published target. Target: 95% or higher.
- Entry Accuracy - Share of audited entries with no error in price, service level, owner or availability. Target: 98% or higher.
- Catalog Adoption - Share of IT fulfillment requests raised through the catalog rather than email, phone, chat or walk-up. Target: 85% or higher.
- Sanctioned AI Access - Share of AI tools in use that are available as approved catalog offerings. Target: 100%.
Dependencies
Assessment Outline
(9 domains · 65 questions)-
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1 Catalog Governance and Accountability
Catalog policy and scope, management process and RACI, governance board, service owners, business engagement, funding and resourcing, team competency
- 1.1 Catalog Policy and Scope 1 questions
- 1.2 Catalog Management Process and RACI 1 questions
- 1.3 Catalog Governance Board 1 questions
- 1.4 Service Owner Assignment 1 questions
- 1.5 Business Stakeholder Engagement 1 questions
- 1.6 Catalog Funding and Resourcing 1 questions
- 1.7 Catalog Team Competency 1 questions
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2 Service Pipeline and Intake
Pipeline register, business case, architecture and overlap review, demand forecast, launch and support readiness, pipeline-to-catalog traceability
- 2.1 Service Pipeline Visibility 1 questions
- 2.2 New Service Justification 1 questions
- 2.3 Architecture and Overlap Review 1 questions
- 2.4 Service Demand Forecasting 1 questions
- 2.5 Service Launch Readiness 1 questions
- 2.6 Support Readiness for New Services 1 questions
- 2.7 Pipeline-to-Catalog Traceability 1 questions
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3 Catalog Data and Structure
Catalog data standard, taxonomy, consumer descriptions, entitlement, bundles, portal usability and accessibility, personalization
- 3.1 Catalog Data Standard 1 questions
- 3.2 Catalog Taxonomy 1 questions
- 3.3 Consumer-Oriented Descriptions 1 questions
- 3.4 Catalog Entitlement Rules 1 questions
- 3.5 Service Bundling 1 questions
- 3.6 Portal User Experience 1 questions
- 3.7 Personalized Service Recommendations 1 questions
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4 Catalog Platform and Integration
Platform requirements, item build and release control, CMDB and asset integration, interfaces, portal security, mobile, AI discovery, agent-readable catalog, AI agent requesters, roadmap
- 4.01 Catalog Platform Requirements 1 questions
- 4.02 Catalog Item Build and Release Control 1 questions
- 4.03 Configuration and Asset Integration 1 questions
- 4.04 Catalog Integration Interfaces 1 questions
- 4.05 Portal Security 1 questions
- 4.06 Mobile Catalog Access 1 questions
- 4.07 AI-Assisted Service Discovery 1 questions
- 4.08 Agent-Readable Catalog 1 questions
- 4.09 AI Agent Requesters 1 questions
- 4.10 Catalog Technology Roadmap 1 questions
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5 Service Offerings and Fulfillment
Offering definition, published service levels, costing, AI service offerings, reusable platform and pipeline offerings, standard change linkage, fulfillment automation, custom requests, fulfillment monitoring
- 5.1 Offering Definition 1 questions
- 5.2 Published Service Levels 1 questions
- 5.3 Service Costing and Chargeback 1 questions
- 5.4 AI Service Offerings 1 questions
- 5.5 Reusable Platform and Pipeline Offerings 1 questions
- 5.6 Standard Change Linkage 1 questions
- 5.7 Fulfillment Workflow Automation 1 questions
- 5.8 Customization Governance 1 questions
- 5.9 Fulfillment Performance Monitoring 1 questions
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6 Catalog Maintenance and Accuracy
Scheduled review, overdue escalation, change-triggered updates, CMDB synchronization, dependency maps, AI components, supplier alignment, change notices, accuracy audits
- 6.1 Scheduled Entry Review 1 questions
- 6.2 Overdue Review Escalation 1 questions
- 6.3 Change-Triggered Catalog Updates 1 questions
- 6.4 Catalog-to-CMDB Synchronization 1 questions
- 6.5 Service Dependency Mapping 1 questions
- 6.6 AI Components in the Service Model 1 questions
- 6.7 Supplier Contract Alignment 1 questions
- 6.8 Consumer Notification of Catalog Changes 1 questions
- 6.9 Catalog Accuracy Audit 1 questions
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7 Service Retirement and Decommissioning
Retirement governance, user migration, license and cost reclamation, dependency cleanup, record retention
- 7.1 Service Retirement Governance 1 questions
- 7.2 User Migration and Transition 1 questions
- 7.3 License and Cost Reclamation 1 questions
- 7.4 Dependency and Integration Cleanup 1 questions
- 7.5 Retired Service Records Retention 1 questions
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8 Adoption, Communication and Change
Awareness, consumer enablement, channel steering, cross-IT collaboration, major catalog change management
- 8.1 Catalog Awareness 1 questions
- 8.2 Consumer Enablement 1 questions
- 8.3 Request Channel Steering 1 questions
- 8.4 Cross-Functional Catalog Collaboration 1 questions
- 8.5 Major Catalog Change Management 1 questions
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9 Catalog Performance and Improvement
Adoption, cycle time benchmarks, satisfaction, request patterns, shadow IT and shadow AI, improvement program
- 9.1 Catalog Adoption Measurement 1 questions
- 9.2 Fulfillment Cycle Time Benchmarking 1 questions
- 9.3 Consumer Satisfaction Measurement 1 questions
- 9.4 Request Pattern Analytics 1 questions
- 9.5 Shadow IT and Shadow AI Discovery 1 questions
- 9.6 Catalog Improvement Program 1 questions
At a Glance
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