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A Practical Guide to Service Management

By : Keith D. Sutherland, Lawrence J. "Butch" Sheets
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Book Image

A Practical Guide to Service Management

4 (1)
By: Keith D. Sutherland, Lawrence J. "Butch" Sheets

Overview of this book

Many organizations struggle to find practical guidance that can help them to not only understand but also apply service management best practices. Packed with expert guidance and comprehensive coverage of the essential frameworks, methods, and techniques, this book will enable you to elevate your organization’s service management capability. You’ll start by exploring the fundamentals of service management and the role of a service provider. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the different service management frameworks used by IT and enterprises. You'll use system thinking and design thinking approaches to learn to design, implement, and optimize services catering to diverse customer needs. This book will familiarize you with the essential process capabilities required for an efficient service management practice, followed by the elements key to its practical implementation, customized to the organization’s business needs in a sustainable and repeatable manner. You’ll also discover the critical success factors that will enhance your organization’s ability to successfully implement and sustain a service management practice. By the end of this handy guide, you’ll have a solid grasp of service management concepts, making this a valuable resource for on-the-job reference.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Importance of Service Management
6
Part 2: Essential Process Capabilities for Effective Service Management
18
Part 3: How to Apply a Pragmatic, Customized Service Management Capability
Appendix B: SLR Template

IT Service:

Interview questions

Processes

  1. Which key business activities or processes are the most important for the customer’s business?

    This is to help understand the relationship between the business process and the IT service. The answer to this question will define high-impact incidents for this particular customer. These key business activities or processes must be aligned with business importance levels.

    Process involvement: All ITSM processes

    Option:

    What key business activities or processes does the IT service support?

    • List business processes and activities here
    • Other business areas impacted
  1. Do your key business activities or processes have dependencies on any others?

    Determine significant upstream or downstream effects of an outage. Are there impacts on other business groups?

    • Prioritize the importance of each function and each dependency

    Process involvement: All ITSM processes

  1. What are...