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13 ITIL Mind Maps:

 Service Management as a Practice
 ITIL Service Strategy
 ITIL Service Strategy Processes
 ITIL Service Design
 ITIL Service Design Processes
 ITIL Service Transition
 ITIL Service Transition (SACM)
 ITIL Service Transition (Change and Evaluation)
 ITIL Service Operation
 ITIL Service Operation Functions
 ITIL Service Operation Processes
 ITIL Continual Service Improvement
 ITIL CSI Improvement Processes

ITIL® 2011 Mind Maps
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ITIL - Service Management as a Practice
Facilitates outcomes without costs & risks
Uncertainty of outcome

Standards - ISO20000

Risk

Training and education
Sources

Functionality
Fitness for purpose

Industry practice - Sarbanes Oxley (SOX),
Financial Services Authority (FSA)

What the customer gets

Best
Practice

Fitness for use
Performance

Warranty

Internal and external experience
Research

Utility

Value to customers

How service is delivered

Service

Employees
Customers
Enablers

Economic value

Suppliers
Advisors

Reputation

Shown by

Technology

Customer Perception

Knowledge to achieve business objectives
Core
Enabling

Classification

Coordinated activities

Enhancing

Performance driven
Creates value for customers

Maintenance

Defines roles, activities, guidelines

Process

Prime customer contact

Measurable

Ensures delivery meets requirements

Service
Owner

Identify areas for input into CSI
register / raise RFC's
Communication with Process Owners
Reporting & monitoring
Accountable for delivery of service

Characteristics

Service
Management
as a Practice

Definitions

Function

Perform certain types of work

Responsible
Accountable

Assists with design

RACI Model

Documentation

Input to CSI register

Specialised units

Responsibility within process or function

Defines Strategy, policy, standards

Communication

Consulted
Clarifies roles and responsibilities

Process manager

Owner
Control

Documentation
Objectives
Feedback

Provides value for customers via services
IT service management

Service
Management

One person

Informed

Process
Owner

Process practitioner

Set of specialised capabilities

Customers
Responds to triggers

Role

Audits

Specific Results

Process
Model

Activities
Procedures
Process

Metrics
Improvement
Roles

Enablers

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ITIL Service Strategy
Current state assessment

Automation can
affect performance

target state definition

Simplify processes

Gap analysis

Technology

Project estimation
Project consolidation
Roadmap

Understand flow of
activities
Minimise interactions

Implementation

Definition of roles
Service portfolio, customer portfolio, customer agreement portfolio
Demand management procedures, techniques and tools

Define the market and identify customers
Understand the customer

Designing the strategy

Quantify the outcomes

Interfaces between all service strategy processes and other processes

Establish and maintain business relationships
Ensure service provider can meet needs of the business

Classify and visualise the service
Understand the opportunities

Rules, policies, processes by which
businesses are operated, regulated,
controlled

Define services based on outcomes
Service models

Assists business in articulating value of service

Core Services - deliver basic outcomes

Evaluates, direc ts, monitors the strategy, policies and plans

Strategy
principles

Evaluate
Direct

Activities

Enabling services are needed in order for
a core service to be delivered
Enhancing services are excitement factors
Define service
units and
packages

Monitor
Establish responsibilities

Deliver the basic outcomes desired by the customer
Represent the value the customer wants
Supporting Services

Strategy to set and meet objectives

Either enable or enhance the value proposition

Acquire for valid reasons

Framework

Ensure performance when required

Governance

Packaging core and supporting services
is an essential aspect of market strategy

Ensure conformance with rules

Packaging will also have an impact on the
design and operation of a service

Ensure respect for human factors
Service through collaboration

Strategic Asset

Service through coordination
Services through delegation

Service Management

Stages

Finances

Services through direction

Infrastructure

Services through network

Resources

Applications
People

What is our business?
Who is our customer?
What does the customer value?

Service
Strategy

Marketing mind set

Who depends on our services?

Assets

How do they use our ser vices?

Information
Service Assets

Management
Organisation
Capabilities

Processes
Knowledge

Why are they valuable to them?

People
Internal (Type I)

Future vs Present

Shared Service Unit (SSU) (Type II)

Opposing
dynamics

External (Type III)
Supplies service to one or more customers
Outsourcing
Insourcing

Service provider

Disaggregation

Operational effectiveness vs
improvements in functionality
Value capture

Perspective

Aggregation

Positions
Defined by customers

4 P's

Affordable mix of features
Achievement of objectives
Changes over time and circumstance
Business outcome achieved
Customer's preferences

Patterns

Value

Ongoing Actions

Value for customer

Benefits

Basic Factors
Performance Factors

Business Portrayal
How to achieve vision

Cost effectiveness

Creating value

Customer's perception of what was delivered

Excitement Factors

Plans

Vision

Kano model

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Standardised processes
Services create value
Respond quickly to
changes in business
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ITIL Service Strategy Processes

How a service provider will enable an
organization to achieve its business
outcomes
Analyse internal and external factors

Service Design
Development
Operational Services

Service Catalogue

Define market spaces

Assessment

Service Pipeline

Identify strategic industry factors

Contents

Establish objectives
Determine perspective

Retired Services

Strategy
Management
for IT
Services

Tracks investment through lifecycle and ensures
appropriate returns are achieved
Ensures services clearly defined and
linked to business outcomes
Why should they buy these services from us?

Adopt patterns of action
Align assets with outcomes
Optimise CSFs

Execution

Prioritise investments
Measurement and evaluation

Clarify the answers to key
strategic questions

What are our pricing and chargeback models?

Craft a plan

Process

Purpose

Why should a customer buy these services?

Form a position

Generation

To ensure service provider has the right mix of services to
balance the investment in IT with ability to meet business
outcomes

CSI
Expansion and growth

Annual planning cycles

What are our strengths, weaknesses, priorities and risks?

New business opportunity
Triggers

How should our resources and capabilities be allocated?
Strategy management

Changes to internal and external
environments
Mergers or acquisitions

Business relationship management

Process initiation

CSI
Other service management processes

Enhanced decision making
Strategy

Speed of change

Request from business
Value to the business

Service improvement opportunities
Service suggestion
Existing services

Finance compliance and control
Operational control

Define

Value capture and creation

Service, customer and business outcomes

Portfolio
Management

Service models
Impact on service portfolio and service model

Cost centre
Profit centre

Service portfolio review
Analyse investments, value and priorities

SPM

Analyse

Policy decisions

Process

Funding

External
Internal
Rolling plan

Articulate value proposition
Funding models
Retain
Rationalise
Refactor
Renew

Approve

Zero based
Trigger based

Service
Strategy
Processes

Replace

Service valuation
Service Investment Analysis

Assesses the value or return of a service over the total lifecycle
Based on the value received and the costs incurred

Compliance

Retire
Outputs

Change proposal

Cost optimisation
Seeks to translate outage severity into a financial value

Change management authorisation
Change proposal authorised

Business Impact Assessment (BIA)

Financial
management

Communicate with stakeholders
Service design and transition processes

Charter

Aid to decision making and prioritisation
Helps to identify

Cost of service outage
Relative value of services

Planning confidence

Track progress and update portfolio
Analysis of previous budget
Opportunity

Assessment of plans

Value proposition

Budgeting

Business outcomes supported
Priorities

Budget(s)

Portfolio Contents

Cost model

Risks

Cost centres and cost units

Offerings & packages

Cost types and elements

Investments required
Accounting

Cost & pricing

Scope

Analyse patterns of business activity

Analysis and reporting
Action plans
Objective

Cost recovery or break even

Demand
Management

Work with capacity management
Achieve balance between cost and value of outcomes
Refines understanding of interactions

Cost classification
Chart of accounts

To identify and analyse the patterns of business activity that
initiate demand for services
User Profiles

Specification of changes to funding and spending
Cost and income estimation

Business cases

Policies

Decide on chargeable items

Enable executives to evaluate real investment

Pricing
Billing
Service provider
Contract

Establish and maintain business relationships
Ensure service provider can meet needs of the business
Assists business in articulating value of service

Objective

Cross subsidisation
Notional charging

Charging

Value to business

Recovery with margin

Business Relationship
Management

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ITIL Service Design

Statement of requirements (SOR)

Identify business need

Invitation to tender (ITT)
Business case

People

Award contract
Negotiate

Evaluation and procurement of new contracts and suppliers

4 P's

Select supplier

Supplier and contract
categorisation
Maintains supplier and contract management information
system (SCMIS)
Value for money

Supplier
Management

Service solutions
Why should a customer buy
these services?

Design IT services,
together with the
governing IT practices,
processes and policies,
to realize the service
provider’s strategy and
to facilitate the
introduction of these
services into supported
environments ensuring
quality service delivery,
customer satisfaction
and cost-effective
service provision.

Manage supplier and contract
performance

Define and maintain policies
and methods
Plan design resources and
capabilities
Coordinate design activities
Improve service design

Partners
Processes

Ensure contracts are aligned to business

Manage design risks and issues

Products

Design coordination

Plan, coordinate and monitor
individual designs
Review designs and ensure
handover of SDPs

Why should they buy these
services from us?
What are the pricing or
chargeback models?
What are our strengths and
weaknesses, priorities and risks?
How should our resources and
capabilities be allocated?
Opportunity
Service portfolio

Value proposition
Business outcomes
supported
Business cases
Contents

Systems and tools

Risks
Offerings and packages

Corporate visions, strategies, etc

Investments required

Service management visions, strategies,
policies, objectives and plans

Ongoing costs
and pricing

Constraints and requirements for compliance
with standards and regulations

Key Principles

IT strategies, policies and plans
Business requirements

Priorities

Inputs

Services

5 major aspects

Supported levels of performance
Policies

Service portfolio

Minimum requirements

ITSM processes, risks and issues registers

Ordering and request

Service catalogue

Revisions to IT strategies, policies, designs, plans,
architectures, processes

Support terms and conditions
Dependencies

Service level package

Points of contact

Service
Design

Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)
Improved quality of service
Consistency of service

Pricing and charging
Business / organisation
Enterprise

Easier implementation of new services

Service
Technology and management
architectures

Better service alignment
Improve service performance
Improve IT governance

Benefits

Application
Data / Information
Environment

Improved service alignment

IT Infrastructure

More effective service
management

Design top down, build bottom up
Processes required

Better IT processes

Progress

Improved information and decision making
Measurement methods and metrics
Coordinate all design activities

Functionality

Balanced design

Produce associated service design packages
Ensure service designs and/or SDPs are produced and handed
over to service transition

Ensure all service models and service solution designs conform to
strategic, architectural, governance and other corporate requirements
Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of service design activities and processes
Ensure that all parties adopt a common framework of standard, reusable
design practices

Effectiveness
Efficiency

Plan and coordinate the resources and capabilities required to design
new or changed services

Manage the quality criteria, requirements and handover between design,
strategy and transition

Compliance

Resources
Schedule
ITSC

Objectives

Availability

Other Service Design
Processes

See "Service Design Processes" Map

Monitor and improve the performance of the service design lifecycle stage

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Capacity
Service Level
Service Catalogue

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ITIL Service Design Processes
Align IT security with business security
Effectively manage information security
Management of risks

Manage information contained in service catalogue

Training & awareness

Ensure service catalogue is available and accurate

Security strategy and plan

Service Catalogue
Management

Management of suppliers and contracts regarding access to systems and services
Management of all security breaches and incidents associated with all systems and services
Proactive improvement of security controls, and security risk management and the reduction of security risks

Control
Plan

Live services
Business service catalogue

Integration of security aspects within all other IT service management processes
Manage information security management system

Ensure service catalogue supports evolving needs
of service management processes

Technical service catalogue

Information Security
Management

Security Framework

Implement

Delivered service matches or exceeds needs of customer

Evaluate

Perform as agreed

Maintain

Service availability

Availability

Preventive

Component availability
Design for availability and recovery

Reductive
Measures

Detective

Perform as its agreed function

Reliability

Repressive

Speed to restore to normal working

Maintainability

Corrective

Serviceability

Agreed level of IT Service

Ability of 3rd party to meet terms of contract

Achievable targets

Identifying vital business functions (VBFs)

Proactive measures
Produce and agree service level requirements (SLRs)
Negotiate between internal service providers

Designing in availability

Availability Management

Improvements to service

Component failure impact analysis (CFIA)

Define

Single point of failure (SPOF)
Proactive Activities

Operational level agreement (OLA)

Modelling
Risk assessment

Service
Multi Level

Fault tree analysis (FTA)

Negotiate between IT and customer

Planned maintenance

Document

Service level agreement (SLA)

Service Level
Management

Customer
External contractors

Contracts

Process
Agree
Measure

Projected service outage document (PSO) document

Service
Design
processes

Monitor, measure, analyse, report
Expanded incident lifecycle
Reactive Activities

Unavailability analysis

Component failure
impact analysis (CFIA)

Monitor
Regular
Ad-Hoc

Required services resumed within required and agreed timescales

Report

Support business continuity management (BCM)

Red, amber, green (RAG) / Service level
agreement monitor (SLAM) charts

Agreed and required timescales
Review

Policy setting
Terms of reference and scope

Cost justifiable capacity available in time

Initiation

Capacity matched to evolving agreed needs of customer

Resource allocation
Project organisational and control structure

Supply vs demand

Agree project and quality plans

Cost vs resource

Business impact analysis (BIA)

Capacity plan
Proactive activities

Risk analysis

Activities

Assistance with Capacity incident resolution

IT Service Continuity
Management (ITSC)

Modelling and trending
Application sizing
Monitoring
Tuning

Iterative

Techniques

Manual

ITSC strategy

Process

Demand management

Live service capacity
Incident / problems
Performance, capacity, utilisation

Gradual
Intermediate
Fast

Capacity Management

Immediate
Implementation

Threshold management and control

Requires financial plans and business strategy

Reciprocal

Requirements & strategy

Analysis

Future business needs

Service failure analysis (SFA)

Develop plans / procedures
Testing
Education, awareness, training

Business capacity management
Service capacity management

Ongoing operations

Testing
Change management

Invocation

Component capacity management

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ITIL Service Transition

Plan and manage service changes efficiently and effectively
Manage risks relating to new, changed
or retired services

Speed vs accuracy

Successfully deploy service releases into supported environments

Safety critical services

Objectives

Difficulties

Restricted resources
Working with difficult customers

Set correct expectations on the performance and use of
new or changed services
Ensure that service changes create the expected business value
Provide good-quality knowledge and information about
services and service assets.

Stakeholder change
Communications
Stakeholder map

Confidence that a new or changed service will
deliver the value and outcomes required of it

Stakeholder commitment analysis

Benefits

Emotional cycle of change

Governance process
Organisational capabilities

Provides a measured degree of confidence.

Managing
People

Leadership
Organisational adoption
Organisational change

Understanding of risk

Define customer requirements
Design

V Model

Strong communication process
Kotter's 8 steps

Provide clear comprehensive plans
Assure quality

Transition
Planning and
Support

Produce transition strategy
Activities

Validate service packages
Service acceptance

Service
Validation
and
Testing

Release policy

Plan and coordinate transition

Design service solution
Design service release

Business and service performance measures

Prepare for transition

Define service requirements

Test

Service operational readiness
Service release package
Component and assembly
Library of tests

Plan and design tests

Levels of testing

Service
Transition

Provide transition process support

Test environment

Verify test plan and designs
Process

Prepare test environment
Perform tests
Evaluate exit criteria

See "Change and Change evaluation Map"
See "Change and Change evaluation Map"
See "Knowledge, Service Asset
and Configuration Map"

Report

Change

Test and clean up

Other
Service
Transition
Processes

Evaluation

Service Asset and Configuration

See "Knowledge, Service Asset and Configuration Map"

Knowledge

Should be separate to release and deployment manager
Enable projects to estimate the cost, timing, resource requirement and
risks associated with the service transition stage more accurately
Result in higher volumes of successful change
Be easier for people to adopt and follow
Enable service transition assets to be shared and re-used across projects and services
Reduce delays from unexpected clashes and dependencies

Big bang / phased
Release options

Push / pull

Benefits

Automated / manual

Result in higher volumes of successful change

Full
Delta

Be easier for people to adopt and follow

Release unit

Enable service transition assets to be shared and re-used across projects and services

Package

Release and
Deployment
Management

Planning
Preparation
Build and test
Service testing and pilot
Planning and preparing for deployment

Enable projects to estimate the cost, timing, resource requirement and risks
associated with the service transition stage more accurately

Activities

Performing transfer, deployment and retirement

Reduce delays from unexpected clashes and dependencies

To assist organisations seeking to plan and manage service changes and
deploy service releases into the production environment successfully

Early life support
Review and closure of deployment and Service Transition
Role should be separate to test manager

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ITIL Service Transition - SACM
IT staff to understand the configuration and relationships of services and the configuration items

Policies

Better forecasting and planning of changes

Objectives, scope, resources

Successful assessment, planning and delivery of changes and releases

Planning & management

Resolution of incidents and problems within the service level targets
Delivery of service levels and warranties
Better adherence to standards, legal and regulatory obligations
More business opportunities as the service provider is able to demonstrate control of assets and services
Traceability of changes from
requirements

CSFs
Involve change/release
Start small

SACM
Benefits

Regulatory compliance
An asset, service component or other item which is or
will be, under the control of configuration management
Types

Ability to identify the costs of a service
Reduced cost and time to discover configuration information when it is needed

Define

Proper stewardship of fixed assets that are under the control of the service provider

Design, manage & maintain configuration management system (CMS)
Control receipt, identification, storage of CI's

Regular housekeeping
Amend database to suit business requirements

Attributes
Relationships
Business case

Configuration
manager

Service lifecycle

Configuration librarian

Create process & procedures & training

Naming convention

SACM
Activities

Configuration analyst
CMS tools administrator

SACM
Roles

Hardware

Configuration item (CI) identification

People
External / internal
Categories

Documentation
Organisation

Service asset manager

Agrees naming convention

Service Transition:

- Knowledge Management
- Service Asset and
Configuration Management

Configuration management databases (CMDB's)
Definitive media libraries (DML's) information
Known error databases (KEDB)

Data, information & tools layer

Availability management information system (AMIS)
Service knowledge
management system (SKMS)

Capacity management information system (CMIS)
Data mining

Information integration layer

Modelling

Knowledge processing layer
Reports

Presentation layer
Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW)
Improve the quality of management

Accommodation
Software

Design & maintain asset management systems
Asset management system processes & procedures

Service
management plans

Service
Configuration control
Status accounting

Internal policies
Business strategy

Service capability assets
Service resource assets

Authorised CIs
CIs under change control
Define each status
Before /after major change

Verification and audit

After IT service continuity invoked
Planned, regularly, random
Automate

Knowledge
Management

Enable the service provider to be more efficient and improve quality of service,
increase satisfaction and reduce the cost of service by reducing the need to
rediscover knowledge
Ensure that staff have a clear and common understanding of the value of their services
Maintain a service knowledge management system (SKMS) that provides controlled
access to knowledge, information and data that is appropriate for each audience

Configuration management databases (CMDB's)
Definitive media libraries (DML's)
Data, information & tools layer

SACM
CMS

Known error databases (KEDB)
Availability management information system (AMIS)
Capacity management information system (CMIS)

Physical storage information

Definitive spares
Definitive media library

Gather, analyse, store, share, use and maintain knowledge, information and
data throughout the service provider organization.

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Change and Evaluation

Raised by

Recorded

Reason

Assessed/evaluated

Return
Risks
Resource

7 R's

Impact

Responsible

(ChM)
Change
process

(ChM) Change
assessment

Relationship
Cost

Authorised
Prioritised
Planned
Tested
Implemented
Reviewed

Regular

Strategic

Assess, plan, schedule changes
Review previous changes

Tactical

(ChM) Change
advisory board (CAB)

Flexible membership
Change schedule (CS)

Consider remediation / back out plans
Test as much as possible
Retrospective RFC

Operational activity

- C hange M anagement ( ChM)
- Change Evaluation (ChE)

Projected service outage (PSO)

Control using change model

Password reset

Service Transiti on

(ChM)
Request
for Change

(ChM) Emergency
change advisory
board (ECAB)

Standard change

Lack of commitment to the process by the
business, management or IT staff

Evaluate the intended and unintended effects of a service change

Evaluation required before each of authorization by the suitable
authority to provide advice and guidance

Preauthorised,
accepted procedure

Normal change

Set stakeholder expectations correctly

Provide good-quality outputs so that change management can
expedite an effective decision about whether or not a service change is
to be authorized.

Reboot
Project change proposal

Emergency change

Provide effective and accurate information to change management

(ChE) Change
evaluation

(ChM)
Change
risks

Bypassing the process
Change assessment being reduced to box ticking
Overly-bureaucratic process
Insufficient time

Change evaluation is concerned with value.
Establish the use made of resources in terms of delivered benefit

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Reduced labour / costs
Reduced duration / frequency of service outages

Value to business

Meet goals of ISM policy
Increased effectiveness and efficiency

Undertake activities & processes that manage and
deliver services at agreed levels to business users
and customers. To manage the technology used to
deliver the services and to collect information on
performance & Service metrics
Manage operational costs

Services
Service management processes
Technology

Maintain live services to defined service standards

Benefits

Scope

People

Ensure access to service for authorised users

Protect live services
Proactive activities

Maintain business satisfaction
Minimise impact of service outages

Identify incidents & problems

Objectives

Service
Operation

Deliver services at agreed levels to the business
Manage day to day activities and processes

Objectives

Internal (technology) vs external (services)
Stability vs responsiveness
Cost vs quality

Balance

Monitor ongoing performance
Manage the service technology
Harvest data & report against agreed metrics

Reactive vs proactive
Technical management
See "Service Operation
Functions" map

Incident management
Event management
Problem management
Access management
Request fulfilment

See "Service Operation
Processes" map

Functions
Processes

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ITIL Service Operation Functions
Manage knowledge and expertise
Ensure applications appropriately designed

Single point of contact

Assist in resolution of failures

Manage service requests

Design and deployment of applications

Application
Management

Incident management
Request fulfilment
Record changes

Provide resource throughout lifecycle
Research and development
Training programmes

Supplier liaison

Application portfolio

Provide information
Complaints

Manage and maintain IT infrastructure

Improve customer service
Improve communication
Virtual and follow the sun
Central
Local

Types

Provide stable environment

Service
Desk

Diagnose & resolve IT failures
Console management
Job scheduling

Business
Technical

Skill set

Interpersonal
Outsourcing

Print & output management
Ongoing maintenance
Physical environment

Service
Operation
Functions

Retention

Directory service

Restores

IT Operations
Management

Staffing depends
on organisational
requirements

Super users

Back ups

Operations Control

Specialised

Facilities Management

Recovery sites
Datacentres

Standard operating procedures (SOP)
Documentation

Operations logs
Shift schedules and reports

IT Operations
Middleware

Manage technical knowledge

Internet/Intranet

Help in planning, implementation
and maintenance of infrastructure

Network

Guidance to Service Operations for live environment

Server
Mainframe

Technical
management

Database
Storage / Archive
Desktop and mobile support
Facilities / Datacentre management
Improvement of operations activities

Common Service
Operation Activities

Closed

Definition of standards
Problem management
Provide resource throughout lifecycle

Active / Passive

Open

Training programmes
Research and development

Technical
specialisation

Reactive / Proactive
Continuous / Exception

Guidance to Service Design in development

Activity

Monitoring

Organisational
Structures

Control loops

Internal / External
Reporting

Process
Geography
Hybrid
Combined

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ITIL Service Operation Processes

Eliminate recurring incidents
Objective

Restore normal service operation as quickly as possible

Minimise impact of incidents that cannot be prevented

Purpose

Prevent problems and resulting incidents from happening
Underlying cause of one or more incidents

Identify training requirements

Problem

Align business with IT activity

Reactive
Proactive

Benefits

Identify potential improvements
Increased availability and customer satisfaction

Temporary way of overcoming difficulties

Workaround

Restore service asap

Predefined

Known Error (KE)

Incident is an unplanned interruption to an IT Service
Incident

Reduction in the quality of an IT Service

Problem diagnosis complete and workaround identified

Detection

Failure of a CI that has not yet impacted an IT service

Logging
Event Management

Categorisation

Web interface

Input

Telephone

Prioritisation

eMail

Incident
Management

Identification
Logging

Investigation and diagnosis

Process

Create KE
Raise RFC
Resolution

Categorisation
Urgency
Business Impact

Closure

Prioritisation

Technical
Hierarchical

Problem
Management

Process

Investigation and Diagnosis
Escalation

Possible major problem review

Event management
Incident management
Input

Service desk
Proactive problem management
Supplier or contractor

Resolution and Recovery
Closure

Updated records
Resolved problems

Specific incidents
Standardised method

Output

Incident Model

Pre defined steps

RFCs
Workarounds
Known errors

Major Incident

Problem management reports
Follow policies from Information security management

Kepner & Tregoe

Verify identity of users

Ishikawa

User's rights / privileges

Brainstorming

Restricting non users access

Access
Management

Logging and tracking access
RFC
Service request

Chronological
Pain value

Service
Operation
Processes

Triggers

Request from HR or manager
Detect, analyse, take appropriate
control action

Techniques

Pareto
Affinity mapping
5 Whys
Hypothesis testing
Lotus blossom
Technical observation

Early detection of events
Automated operations

Predefined method to handle repeat requests

Request model

Assign support before outage occurs
Detectable or discernable occurrence

Day to day demands from users

Informational

Small changes
Types of event

Warning

Service Request

Low risk and cost

Exception

Frequently performed

Constant state CIs
Software licence
Security

Scope

Event
Management

Normal activity
Any change of state that has significance for the management of a CI

Reactive

Pre approved by change authority
Self service and self select tools
Standard change

Channel for:
Monitoring

Managed as service request
Pre-approved change

Standard service request

Event

Active
Passive

Request
Fulfilment

Information on availability of services
General information
Comments and complaints

Proactive

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ITIL Continual Service Improvement

To align IT services to the changing business needs
by identifying and implementing improvements to IT
services that support business processes.

Lead to a gradual and continual improvement in service quality
Ensure that IT services remain continuously aligned to business requirements

Define success
Build framework
Choose measures

Value

Steps

Define procedures & policies

Gradual improvements in cost effectiveness through a
reduction in costs and or the capability to handle more work at
the same cost
Identify opportunities for improvement in all lifecycle stages
and processes through monitoring and reporting
Identify opportunities for improvements in organizational structures,
resourcing capabilities, partners, technology, staff skills, training and
communications

Assessment
Gap analysis
Benchmarking

Provides an environment within which CSI can operate and thrive

Comparison with industry norms

Business governance

Process maturity comparison
Total cost of ow nership (TCO)

Enterprise
Governance

Return on investment (ROI)
Availability reporting

Service measurement

Predict and report service performance against targets

IT governance

Ensures IT sustains and extends the
organisation's strategies and objectives

Technology

Availability
CSF

Processes

Ensure applicable quality management methods
are used to support continual improvement
activities

Process

KPI
End to end service

Service

Metrics

Continual
Service
Improvement

Resources
Balancing elements

Tension

Schedule

Objectives

Ensure that processes have clearly defined
objectives and measurements that lead to
actionable improvements
Understand what to measure, why it is being
measured and what the successful outcome
should be
Ownership is fundamental to any improvement strategy

Financial
Customer
Innovation

Balanced Scorecard

Internal

Accountable for ensuring best practice is adopted and
sustained throughout the organization

Methods and
Techniques

Chief advocate and owns all CSI issues
CSI manager

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities

SWOT

Baselines

Strategic goals and objectives
Must be established at each level:

Ensures adequate resources to support and enable CSI

Accountable and responsible for the production and
maintenance of the CSI register

Used to establish an initial data point to determine if a service or process needs to be improved
Must be documented, recognized and accepted throughout the organization

Accountable for the success of
CSI in the organization
Not accountable for improvements to specific services which
are the responsibility of the appropriate service owner working
within the CSI framework

Threats

Tactical process maturity

Leadership
Organisational structure

Performance

Functionality

Responsibility of board of directors and
executive management.

Critical
Roles

Accountable for the delivery of a
specific IT service

Operational metrics and KPIs
Service Owner

To validate
To direct
To justify

Responsible to the customer for the initiation,
transition and ongoing maintenance and support of a
particular service
Accountable to the IT director or service
management director for the delivery of the
service

Measure value

To intervene

Reviews and analyses data from components, systems
and sub systems in order to obtain a true and end-to-end
service achievement

Contains important information for the overall service provider
Reporting analyst

Introduces a structure and visibility to CSI ensuring all initiatives are captured and recorded, and
benefits realized
Improvement opportunities should be categorized into initiatives that can
be achieved quickly, or in the medium or longer term
Each improvement initiative should show the benefits that will be achieved by its implementation

Service level manager
CSI register

Should be held and regarded as part of the service knowledge management
system (SKMS)
Provides a coordinated, consistent view of the potentially many
improvement activities

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and Inte gration
with other processes

CSI approach
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7 Step improvement
Deming cycle

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ITIL CSI Processes and Interaction
What is the vision?
Where are we now?
Where do we want to be?
How will we get there?
How do we know we have arrived?

CSI
Approach

How do we keep the momentum going?

Identify strategy for improvement
Define what will you measure
Gather the data

CSI 7 Step Process

Plan
Do
Check
Act

Process the data
Analyse the information and data
Present and use the information
Implement improvement

CSI Deming
Cycle

Defining security monitoring and data collection requirements

To align business needs with IT service delivery

Monitoring, verifying and tracking the levels of security according
to the organizational security policies and guidelines

Involving the business to determine its service level requirements (SLRs)
Identifying internal relationships in IT organizations, negotiating terms and
responsibilities and codifying them with operational level agreements (OLAs)
Working with the supplier manager to Identify existing contractual
relationships with external vendors and verifying that the underpinning
contracts (UCs) meet the revised business requirements
Using the service catalogue as the baseline to negotiate service
level agreements (SLAs) with the business

Assisting in determining effects of security measures on the data
monitoring and collection from the confidentiality, integrity and
availability perspectives

Security

Processing response and resolution data on security incidents
Creating trend analyses on security breaches

Service level

Validating success of risk mitigation strategies
Utilizing the agreed upon reporting format
Analysing processed data for accuracy

Reviewing service achievement and identifying where
improvements are required, feeding them into CSI

Fault tree analysis
Service fault analysis
Technical observation

Monitoring and collecting data associated with the actual
expenditures versus budget

Continual Service
Improvement
processes and
interaction with
other processes

Component failure impact analysis

Availability

Extended incident lifecycle
SIPs and reports

Provides input on questions such as whether costing or revenue
targets are on track

Financial

Monitors the ongoing cost per service etc
Provides the necessary templates to assist CSI to create the budget
and expenditure reports for the various improvement initiatives
Provides the means to compute the ROI of the improvements

Business

SIP

Service

Root cause Analysis

Component
Iterative activities
Application sizing

Problem
Capacity

Identify improvements / trends
Preventative action
Reporting

Demand management
Modelling

Documenting and reviewing incident trends on incidents, service
requests and telephony statistics over a period of time to identify
any consistent patterns

SIPs and reports

Implementing improvement
Post Implementation review
CAB

Comparing results with prior months, quarters or annual reports

Service Desk
and Incident
Management

Manage RFCs from SIPs

Change & Release

Comparing results with agreed-to levels of service
Identifying improvement opportunities
Analysing processed data for accuracy
Input into SIPs

Kotter's 8 steps
SKMS

Identify risk
Identify changes that affect ITSC
Regulatory impact

ITSC

CMS

CMDB

Data, information, knowledge, wisdom

Knowledge

Shared knowledge
Inclusion in CSI register
Building SIPs

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