Skill Recommendation components in Workforce Optimization for ITSM

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    Summary of Skill Recommendation components in Workforce Optimization for ITSM

    Workforce Optimization for ITSM leverages skill recommendation components to enhance incident resolution by predicting necessary skills for agents. This system involves roles for administration, tables for data storage, configurable properties, and scheduled jobs to facilitate skill recommendations, ensuring efficient handling of incidents.

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    Key Features

    • Roles:
      • Skill Recommendation User: Allows viewing of skill recommendation tables.
      • Skill Recommendation Admin: Grants rights to edit skill recommendation properties.
    • Properties:
      • Enable skill recommendation: Activate this for recommending skills (default: true).
      • Max supervised skills: Set the maximum number of skills predicted using supervised learning for each incident (default: 3).
      • Max unsupervised skills: Set the maximum number of skills predicted using unsupervised learning for each incident (default: 3).
      • Number of similar incidents: Determine how many resolved incidents to consider for predicting skills (default: 15).
      • User predicted skill threshold: Set the prediction threshold for skills recommended to agents (default: 20).
      • Solution definitions: Customize Predictive Intelligence solution definitions for supervised and unsupervised learning.
    • Scheduled Job: A daily job that runs at 1 AM to predict skills based on closed incidents from the previous day, enhancing the accuracy of recommendations for open incidents.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing these components, ServiceNow customers can optimize incident resolution processes, ensure agents are equipped with the necessary skills, and continually improve service delivery through tailored skill recommendations. The system's configuration allows for a responsive and adaptive workforce capable of addressing varying incident complexities effectively.

    Workforce Optimization for ITSM uses roles to administer skill recommendation, tables to store skill data, and properties to modify default behavior, and scheduled job to recommend skills in configurable Workforce Optimization for ITSM.

    Roles

    Role title [name] Description Contains roles
    Skill Recommendation User [sn_sre.user] Grants rights to view skill recommendation tables. wfo.user
    Skill Recommendation Admin [sn_sre.admin] Grants administrative rights to edit the properties for skill recommendation.
    • wfo.admin
    • sn_sre.user

    Properties

    Navigate to Skill Recommendation > Configuration to configure these properties.

    Property Description

    Enable skill recommendation.

    sn_sre.enable_skill_recommendation
    Enable this property to start recommending skills for agents.
    • Type:true | false
    • Default value:true

    Maximum number of skills to predict based on supervised learning.

    sn_sre.max_supervised_skills
    Using supervised learning, the maximum number of skills to predict for each incident ordered by confidence of prediction.
    • Type:Integer
    • Default value:3

    Maximum number of skills to predict based on supervised learning.

    sn_sre.max_unsupervised_skills
    Using unsupervised learning, the maximum number of skills to predict for each incident ordered by confidence of prediction.
    • Type:Integer
    • Default value:3

    Number of resolved similar tasks to use for predicting skills.

    sn_sre.number_of_similar_incidents
    The number of resolved similar incidents to use to predict skills using supervised learning, ordered by confidence of prediction, to resolve similar types of incidents.
    • Type:Integer
    • Default value:15

    Number of times Predictive Intelligence must predict the same skill for an agent before recommending it for the agent.

    sn_sre.user_predicted_skill_threshold
    The number of times Predictive Intelligence must predict the same skill for an agent before recommending the skill for the agent.
    • Type:Integer
    • Default value:20

    Similarity solution definition to recommend skills from similar incidents.

    sn_sre.unsupervised_solution_definition_for_incidents
    Name of the Predictive Intelligence solution definition used for predicting skills to resolve incidents using unsupervised learning. If you have created your own solution definition, you can replace the default one with the one you have created.
    • Type:String
    • Default value:ml_sn_sn_sre_global_recommend_similar_skills_for_incidents

    Similarity solution definition to recommend skills for incidents.

    sn_sre.supervised_solution_definition_for_incidents
    Name of the Predictive Intelligence solution definition used for predicting skills to resolve incidents using supervised learning. If you have created your own solution definition, you can replace the default one with the one you have created.
    • Type:String
    • Default value:ml_sn_sn_sre_global_recommend_skills_from_similar_incidents

    Scheduled job

    Scheduled job Description
    Start skill prediction Runs the job every day at 1 AM on all incidents that were closed the previous day. Recommends the skills used to close the incidents to resolve similar open incidents.

    Tables

    Table Description
    User Predicted Skill [sn_sre_user_predicted_skill]
    • Stores how many times a skill has been predicted for the user.
    • Skills not recommended in the last 60 days are automatically deleted from this table.
    Task Predicted Skill [sn_sre_task_predicted_skill]
    • Stores the skills predicted to resolve each type of incident.
    • Tables created over 60 days ago are automatically deleted from this table.