1. Introduction Flashcards

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Guidance to organisations
Set of best practices for delivering IT services

Purpose - improve the value of services

Components - Service Value system & Four dimensions of service management

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Information Technology Infrastructure Library

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A set of organisational resources designed for performing work or objective

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Practice

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A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity

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Output

Created by carrying out an activity

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A result for a stakeholder

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Outcome

Can be one or more outputs

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Who uses services

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User

User or authorised representative submits service request

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Who defines the requirements

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Customer

Responsible for outcome

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Who authorizes budget

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Sponsor

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Transferable ownership

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Goods

Consumer takes responsibility post transfer

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Assurance to meet agreed requirements

How the service performa

Fit for use

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Warranty

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A possible event that could harm or loss or make it more difficult to achieve objectives

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Risk

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Types of cost

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Cost Removed from consumer

Cost imposed on a consumer

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Configuration of organisation’s resources to offer value to consumer

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Product

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Co-create value by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without customer managing costs and risks

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Service

Service offering is one or more services

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Functionality of a product or service

What the service does
Fit for purpose

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Utility

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Action required to deliver a service output to a user

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Service action

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Joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer

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Service Relationship Management

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A set of specialised organisational capabilities for enabling value for customer in the form of services

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Service Management

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A model representing how all the components and activities of an organisation work together to facilitate value creation

Purpose - organisation continually co-creates value with all stakeholders in line with objectives

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Service Value system

Components-
7 Guiding Principles
Governance
Service Value Chain
Practices
Continual Improvement
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Need or desire for products and services among internal and external customers

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Demand

Input to the service value system

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Options or possibilities to add value for stakeholders or improve the organisation

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Opportunities

Input to the service value system

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The perceived benefits, usefulness and importance of something

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Value

Output of the Service Value System

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Perspectives that are critical to the effective and efficient facilitation of value for customers and other stakeholders in the form of products and services

Purpose- Support a holistic approach to service management

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Four dimensions of Service management

Achieves Effective and balanced Service Value System

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Culture
Strategy
Governance
Organisational structure - Roles and responsibilities (Authority of people)
Staffing and competences - quality of people, Training
Capacity - quantity of people or do u need AI
Communication
Interfaces - touchpoint between teams n do these support flow of your value stream

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Organisations and People

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Protect, manage, archive and disposal of Information and knowledge (Security)
Exchange, regulate information with policies (Compliance)
Tools - workflow management systems, inventory systems, Communication systems, knowledge bases,service catalog, event monitoring,reporting
Automation

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Information and technology

Includes all information and technologies used to manage all aspects of Service value systen

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Organisation’s relationships
Contracts(contain agreements)

Influencing Factors:
Strategic focus
Corporate culture
Resource scarcity 
Cost
Subject matter expertise
External constraints 
Performance, Flexibility, Relationships
Demand patterns
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Partners and Suppliers

Partners have confidential information and share common goals and objectives (risks and costs (strategic

Suppliers are goods providers

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How the various parts of organisation work in an integrated ans coordinated way to enable value creation effectively and efficiently 
Focus on value
How work happens n why
Who performs which activity 
Activities
Workflows
Controls
Procedures
Productive-
    Analyse current state
    Identify wasteful activities 
Optimisation - 
    Identify steps to automate
    Adopt Emerging technologies
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Value streams and Processes

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A set if interrelated or interacting activities that transform inputs into outputs

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Process

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A series of steps an organisation undertakes to create and deliver products & services to consumers

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Value Streams

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Operating model for service providers that covers all the keys activities

A set of interconnected activities to create value

Enables organization to react to changing demands

Transforms inputs to outputs using combination of practices

Purpose - shared understanding of vision, current status n improvement for all 4Ds

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Service value Chain

Each practice supports multiple Service value chain activities
Each value chain activity contributes to the value chain by transforming specific inputs into outputs

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Recurring organisational activity

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Continual Improvement

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Plan - direction, strategy
Engage - relationships, stakeholders
Design and transition - ensure to meet expectations for quality,cost,time
Obtain/build - available when & where needed, meet agreed specifications
Deliver and support - delivered n supported as per agreed specifications n expectations
Improve - 4Ds of SM

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Activities of Service Value Chain

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Policies, requirements, constraints provided by governing body

Demands n opportunities, third party service components provided by engage

Perf info,improvement initiatives, plans n improvement reports provided by improve

New n changed from d/t n o/b

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Inputs to Service Value Chain

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Activities by which governance is realised

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Direct, monitor, evaluate