Definitions Flashcards
Service management:
SERVICE
A means of enabling value co–creation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks.
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Service Management
A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value for customers in the form of services.
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SPONSOR
A person who authorizes budget for service consumption. Can also be used to describe an organization or individual that provides financial or other support for an initiative.
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USER
A person who uses services.
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UTILITY
The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need. Utility can be summarized as “what the Service does“ and can be used to determine whether a service is “fit for purpose“.
To have Utility, a service must either support the performance of the consumer or remove constraints from the consumer. Many services do both.
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WARRANTY
Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements. Warranty can be summarized as “how the service performs“ and can be used to determine whether a service is “fit for use“.
Warranty often relates to service levels aligned with the needs of service consumers. This may be based on a formula agreement, or it may be a marketing message or brand image.
Warranty typically addresses such areas as the availability of the service, its capacity, levels of security, and continuity. A service may be said to provide acceptable assurance, or “warranty“, if all defined and agreed conditions are met.
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Customer
A person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption.
ITIL Terms:
Change
The addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services.
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Configuration Item (CI)
Any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service.
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IT Asset
Any financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service.
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Event
Any change of state that has significance for the management of a service or other configuration item.
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Known Error
A problem that has been analyzed but has not been resolved.
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Incident
An unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in the quality of a service.
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Problem
A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents.
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Problem Management
The practice of reducing the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents, and managing workarounds and known errors.
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Change control practice
The practice of ensuring that risks are properly assessed, authorizing changes to proceed and managing a change schedule in order to maximize the number of successful service and product changes.
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continual improvement practice
The practice of aligning an organizations practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification and improvement of all elements involved in the effective management of products and services.
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Deployment Management Practice
The practice of moving new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other service component to live environments.
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Information Security Management Practice
The practice of protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
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Incident Management Practice
The practice of minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.
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IT Asset Management Practice
The practice of planning and managing the full lifecycle of all IT assets.
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Monitoring and Event Management Practice
The practice of systematically observing services and service components, and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events.
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Release Management Practice
The practice of making new and changed services and features available for use.
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Relationship Management Practice
The practice of establishing and nurturing links between an organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels.
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Supplier Management Practice
The practice of ensuring that an organization suppliers and their performance levels are managed appropriately to support the provision of seamless quality products and services.
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Service Configuration Management Practice
The practice of ensuring that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the configuration items that support them, is available when and where needed.
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Service Desk Practice
The practice of capturing demand for incident resolution and service requests.
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Service Level Management Practice
The practice of setting clear business-based targets for service performance so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.
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Service Request Management Practice
The practice of supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user–initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.
