ITIL v4 Flashcards
What is ITIL?
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of best practices for IT
service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of
business.
ITIL Service Value System (SVS)
SVS represents how the various components and
activities of the organization work together to facilitate value creation through IT-enabled services.
What are the core components of the ITIL SVS?
– the ITIL service value chain
– the ITIL practices
– the ITIL guiding principles
– governance
– continual improvement.
What are the 4 dimensions of Service Management?
– organizations and people
– information and technology
– partners and suppliers
– value streams and processes.
Organization
A person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities,
authorities, and relationships to achieve its objectives.
Is a Service Provider internal or external to an organization?
When provisioning services, an organization takes on the role of the service provider.
The provider can be external to the consumer’s organization or they can both be part
of the same organization.
Service
Means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes that
customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage the specific
costs and risks.
IT Service
A service based on the use of information technology.
Product
A configuration of an organization’s resources designed to offer value for a consumer.
IT Service Management
A set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the
form of services.
Implementation and management of quality IT services that meet the needs of the
business.
Service Offering
One or more services designed to address the needs of a target
consumer group. May include goods, access to resources, and service actions.
When does an organization take on the role of the service consumer?
When receiving services
Customer
A person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption.
User
A person who uses the services.
Sponser
A person who authorizes budget for service consumption.
Value
The perceived benefits, usefulness and importance of something.
Acting as a service provider, an organization produced ____ that help its consumers to achieve certain ____
Acting as a service provider, an organization produced outputs that help its consumers to achieve certain outcomes
Output
A tangible or intangible outcome of an activity.
Outcome
A result for a stakeholder enabled by one or more outputs.
Cost
The amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource.
Risk
A possible event that could cause harm or loss, or make it more difficult to
achieve objectives.
Utility
The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
“What the service does”
“Fit for purpose”
Warranty
Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements.
“How the service performs”
“Fit for use”
Best Practices
Proven activities or processes that have been successfully used by
multiple organizations.
Organizations & People
Roles and responsibilities, formal organization structures, culture, required staffing and competencies which are related to the creation, delivery and improvement of a service.
Information & Technology
The information created, managed, and used in the course of service provision and consumption, and the technologies that support and enable that service.
Cloud Computing
A model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources that can be rapidly provided with minimal management effort or
provider interaction
Partners & Suppliers
An organization’s relationship with other institutes involved in the design, development, deployment, delivery, support and/or continual improvement of services. Also incorporates contracts and other agreements between the organization and its partners or suppliers
Values Streams & Services
How various parts of organization work in an integrated and coordinated way to enable value creation through products and services.
Value Stream
A series of steps an organization undertakes to create and deliver products and services to consumers.
Process
Set of activities that transform inputs into outputs
Value Chain
Operating model which outlines the key activities required to respond to demand and facilitate value realization through management of products and services
What factors make up the acronym PESTLE?
political, economic, social, technological,
legal and environmental
What are the 6 components of the Service Value System?
Opportunities, Guiding Principles, Governance, Service Value Chain, Practices, Continual Improvement
What is the outcome of the Service Value System?
Value
Opportunities
Options or possibilities to add value for stakeholders or otherwise improve the organization.
Demand
The need or desire for products and service among internal and external consumers.
Guiding Principles
Recommendations that can guide an organization under all circumstances,
regardless of change in its goals, strategies, types of work or management structure.
Governance
The means by which an organization is directed and controlled.
Practices
Sets of organizational resources designed to perform work or accomplish an
objective.
Continual Improvement
A recurring organizational activity performed at all levels to ensure that organization’s performance continually meets stakeholder’s expectations.
Patterns of Business Activity
A workload profile of one or more business activities that can be used to help the IT service provider understand and plan for different levels of business activity
Focus on Value
Everything that the organization does needs to map, directly or indirectly, to value for the stakeholders. Encompasses many perspectives, including the experience of customers and users.
Start where you are
Do not start from scratch and build something new without considering what is already available and can be leveraged. The current state should be investigated and observed directly to make sure it is fully understood
Progress iteratively with feedback
Do not attempt to do everything at once. Using feedback before, throughout, and after each iteration will ensure that actions are appropriate.
Collaborate and promote visibility
Work together across boundaries. Work and consequences should be made visible, hidden agendas avoided, and information shared to the greatest degree possible.
Think and work holistically
Results are delivered to internal and external customers through the effective and efficient management and dynamic integration of information, technology, people, practices and partners which should all be coordinated to provide a defined value.
Keep it simple and practical
In a process or procedure, use the minimum number of steps necessary to accomplish the objective(s). Use outcome-based thinking to deliver results.
Optimize and automate
Eliminate anything that is truly wasteful and use technology to achieve whatever it is capable of.
Customer experience (CX)
The entirety of the interactions a customer has with an organization and its products.
The 6 Service Value Chain Activities
plan, engage, design and transition, obtain/build, deliver and support, improve.
Plan
To ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status and improvement
direction for all four dimensions and all products across the organization.
Engage
To provide a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, continual
engagement and good relationships with all stakeholders.
Design & Transition
To ensure that products and services continually meet stakeholder expectations for quality, costs and time-to-market.
Obtain/Build
To ensure that service components are available when and where they are needed and meet agreed specifications