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 Four Dimensions of Service Management System

The four dimensions of service management ensures a holistic approach

to service management and enables effective and efficient facilitation
of value of customers and other stakeholders. These four dimensions
represent perspectives which are relevant to the whole SVS and to specific
products and services. Organizations should ensure that there is a balance
of focus between each dimension.

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 Four Dimensions of Service Management System

1 2

Organizations and Information and

People Technology
ƒƒ Formal organizational structures and culture. ƒƒ Information, knowledge, and technologies necessary
ƒƒ Roles, responsibilities, and systems of authority and for service management.
communication. ƒƒ Relationships between different components of the
ƒƒ Skills and competencies of teams or individual SVS, such as the inputs and outputs of activities and
members, management and leadership styles. practices.
ƒƒ Information created, managed, and used in the course of
service provision and consumption, and the technologies
that support and enable a particular service.
ƒƒ Exchange of information between different services
and service components.

3 4

Partners and Value Streams and

Suppliers Processes
ƒƒ Relationships with other organizations that are ƒƒ Working of various parts of the organization in an
involved in the design, development, deployment, integrated and coordinated way to enable value
delivery, support, and/or continual improvement of creation through products and services.
services. ƒƒ Activities, workflows, controls, and procedures needed
ƒƒ Contacts and other agreements between the to achieve agreed objectives.
organization and its partners or suppliers.. ƒƒ Identification and understanding of the various value
streams and structuring the organization’s service and
product portfolios around value streams allows.
ƒƒ Identification and removal of any barriers to workflow
and non-value-add activities, that is waste.

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 The ITIL® Guiding Principles

Are recommendations to Support successful actions

guide an organization in and good decisions of all
all situations. types and at all levels.

The seven
ITIL guiding
principles

Ensure a common Are universally applicable

understanding and to almost any initiative and
approach to service to relationships with all
management across stakeholder groups.
the organization.

Organizations should consider the relevance of each principle and how they can be
applied together. Not all principles will be critical in every situation; the principles
should be reviewed and applied based on their relevance in different situations.

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 The ITIL® Guiding Principles

Focus on Value
Map every action, directly
or indirectly, to value for the
Think and work
stakeholders. Encompasses all holistically
perspectives, including the No service, or element used to
experience of customers provide a service, stands alone.
and users. The outcomes will suffer unless
the organization works on the
service as a whole, not just on
its parts.

Start Where You Are

Always consider what is Keep it simple and
already available to be practical
leveraged. Current state Eliminate that which provides
should be investigated no value or produces no useful
and observed directly to outcome. In a process or
ensure it is understood. procedure, use the minimum
number of steps necessary to
accomplish the objective(s).
Use outcome-based thinking
Progress iteratively for practical solutions and
results.
with feedback
Do not attempt to do everything
at once. Use smaller, manageable
iterations to execute and complete
in a timely manner and maintain
Optimize and
focus on each effort. Use feedback automate
before, throughout and after to Resources, including human
ensure actions are focused.
resources (HR) and technology,
should be used to their best
effect. Human intervention
Collaborate and should only happen where
it really contributes value.
promote visibility
Work together across boundaries
to have greater buy-in and better
likelihood of long-term success.
Work should be visible, hidden
agendas avoided and information
shared to the greatest
degree possible.

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 The ITIL® Service Value Chain

Value created for the

organization, its customers
and other stakeholders.

Opportunity and demand

feeding into the SVS from both
internal and external sources.

The service value chain is a set of interconnected activities that an organization performs
to deliver a product or service to its customers and to facilitate value realization.
The ITIL service value chain is a flexible operating model that:
ƒƒ Defines six activities that can be combined in various ways.
ƒƒ Can be adapted to multiple approaches, such as DevOps and Centralized IT.
ƒƒ Is enhanced by the ITIL practices; each ITIL practice supports multiple service value chain
activities.

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 The ITIL® Service Value Chain

Deliver and support

Ensuring the delivery and support
for services according to agreed
specifications.
Acquire/Build
Ensuring that the service components are
available when and where they are needed
and meet the agreed specifications.
Design and transition
Ensuring that the services
continually meet expectations for
quality, costs, and time-to-market.
Engage
Providing engagement and understanding
of stakeholder needs, transparency, and
good relationships.
Improve
Ensuring continual improvement
across all value chain activity and
the four dimensions of service Plan
management.
Enabling the shared understanding of the
vision, status, and direction for all services.

Six Activities of
Service Value Chain

In order to convert inputs into outputs, the value chain activities use different combinations
of ITIL practices.

In order to carry out a certain task or respond to particular scenario, service value streams
are created. Service value streams are specific combinations of activities and practices,
designed for a particular scenario.

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 The ITIL® Practices: Purpose

An ITIL practice is a set of organizational resources designed for performing a work or fulfilling
an objective. The practices enhance the flexibility of the service value chain. Each ITIL practice
supports multiple service value chain activities, providing a comprehensive and adaptable
toolset for ITSM practitioners.

General Management Practices 1

Continual Improvement
Aligning the organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing
identification and improvement of services, service components, practices, or any other element
involved in management of products and services.

Information Security Management

Protecting information needed by the organization; ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability,
authentication, and non-repudiation.

Relationship Management
Establishing and fostering the links between the organization and its stakeholders at strategic and
tactical levels. Includes identification, analysis, monitoring, and continual improvement of relationships
with and between stakeholders.

Supplier Management
Managing suppliers and their performance to support the seamless provision of quality products and
services. Includes creating collaborative relationships with key suppliers to uncover and realize new value
and reduce the risk of failure.

2 Service Management Practices

IT Asset Management
Planning and management of IT assets to maximize value, control costs, manage risks, support decision
making about purchase, re-use, retirement of assets, and meet regulatory and contractual requirements.

Monitoring and Event Management

Observing services and service components and recording and reporting changes of state identified as events.
Includes identifying and prioritizing infrastructure, services, business processes, and information security
events and establishing the appropriate response to those events.

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 The ITIL® Practices: Purpose

Release Management
Making new and changed services and features available for use.

Service Configuration Management

Ensuring accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the configuration
items that support them.

Change Control
Maximizing the number of successful IT changes by ensuring that risks have been properly assessed,
authorizing changes to proceed, and managing the change schedule.

Incident Management
Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.

Problem Management
Reducing the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents
and managing workarounds and known errors.

Service Desk
Capturing the demand for incident resolution and service requests. Service Desk is a point of
communication for the service provider with all its users.

Service Level Management

Setting clear business-based targets for service performance, so that delivery can be assessed, monitored
and managed against these targets.

Service Request Management

Handling all predefined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.

Technical Management Practices 3

Deployment Management
Moving new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to
live environments. Deployment management may also be involved in deploying components to other
environments for testing or staging.

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 The ITIL® Practices: Contribution to the Service Value Chain

Activity of Service Value Chain

Plan Improve Engage

Continual improvement This practice structures Continual improvement

is applied to planning resources and activities should be applied to
Continual
activities, methods, and enabling improvement engage activity.
Improvement techniques to ensure at all levels of the
they are relevant. organization and the SVS.

Control is provided for Changes within Customers and users

changes for product improvements should be need to be consulted or
Change Control and service portfolios, assessed and authorized informed about changes.
policies, and practices. in the same way as all
other changes.

Incident records Communication is

are a key input to required to understand
Incident improvement activities, issues, set expectations,
Management and are prioritized both provide status updates,
in terms of incident and agree when issues
frequency and severity. resolved.

Effective problem Customers may be

management reduces required in prioritisation,
Problem the number of incidents, and status and plans
ITIL Practice

Management and the impact of should be communicated.

incidents that can’t be Workarounds provided in
prevented. a service portal.

Activities are monitored The service desk is

and evaluated to the main channel for
support alignment, tactical and operational
Service Desk improvement, and value engagement with users.
creation. Feedback is
collected to support
continual improvement.

This practice provides This practice includes

channel for initiatives, communication to
compliments and collect user-specific
Service Request
complaints from users, requirements, set
Management and provides trend, expectations, and
quality and feedback provide status updates.
information.

This practice supports This practice can be This practice ensures

planning of service a driving force for ongoing engagement
offerings with service improvement, with customers and
Service Level
information about using service feedback users through feedback
Management service performance and from users as well as processing and continual
trends. requirements from service review.
customers.

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 The ITIL® Practices: Contribution to the Service Value Chain

Activity of Service Value Chain

Design and
Obtain/build Deliver and support
transition

Continual improvement Continual improvement Subjected to continual

Continual
should be applied to should be applied to improvement
Improvement engage activity. engage activity.

Changes are initiated Changes to components Change impacts should

because of new or are subject to change be communicated to
Change Control changed services. This control, whether they personnel who may
practice is a major are built in house or also be assessing and
contributor to transition. obtained from suppliers. authorizing changes.

Incidents during Incidents during The practice ensures

test, and release and development should be resolving of incidents
Incident
deployment should be resolved in timely and and problems.
Management resolved in timely and controlled manner.
controlled manner.

The problem The problem The problem

management practice management activities management practice
Problem provides information identify product defects prevents incident
ITIL Practice

Management that helps to improve that are managed as part repetition and
testing and knowledge of obtain and build. supporting timely
transfer. incident resolution.

The service desk Service desk staff can The service desk is the
communicates to the be involved in acquiring coordination point for
users about new and service components managing incidents and
Service Desk changed services and used to fulfil service service requests.
participates in release requests and resolve
planning, testing and incidents.
early life support.

Standard changes to The fulfilment of This practice contributes

services can be initiated service requests may to normal service
Service Request and fulfilled as service require acquisition of delivery and ensures
Management requests. pre-approved service users continue to be
components. productive by fulfilling
requests.

This practice provides This practice provides This practice

inputs to the design objectives for communicates
of new and changed performance, and performance objectives
Service Level
services. measurement and to support teams and
Management reporting capabilities collects their feedback
of the products and as an input for service
services. improvement.

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