1. Key Concepts of Service Management Flashcards
- means of enabling value co-creation
- facilitating outcomes
- without customer having to manage specific costs and risks
Service
Set of specialised organisational capabilities for enabling value for customers.
Service Management
- defines the requirement for service
- takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption
Customer
Person who uses service.
User
Authorises budget for service consumption
Sponsor
- configuration of organisation’s resources
- offers value
- visible / invisible
Product
- FUNCTIONALITY offered by product/service
- what the service does
- fit for PURPOSE
- support performances
- or remove constraints
Utility
- ASSURANCE that product/service will meet agreed requirements
- how the service performs
- fit for USE
- addresses: Availability, Capacity, Security, Continuity
Warranty
Amount of money spent on specific activity/resource
Cost
Perceived benefit / usefulness / importance
Value
- person / group that has its own functions
- with responsibilities, authorities, relationships
- to achieve objectives
Organisation
- end-result desired by customer
- result enabled by OUTPUT/s
Outcomes
- deliverable of an activity
- tangible/intangible
Output
- POSSIBLE event causing difficulties
- or uncertainty of outcome
Risk
A package, may include:
- Goods
- Access to resources
- Service Action
Service Offering
Activities performed to PROVIDE service
by provider
Service Provision
Activities performed to CONSUME service
by consumer
Service Consumption
- JOINT activities
- co-operation
- between Service Consumption and Service Provision
Service Relationship Mgmt