Servicing ITSM

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490719563
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
What services does the IT organization really deliver? Rather than discuss the theory around what a service catalog or service portfolio is, this book gives you the actual IT service descriptions for running, operating, and managing an entire IT infrastructure. It's all here--complete service descriptions, catalog and portfolio templates, service implementation plans, service governance processes, and much more all packed into this one handbook! Just about every IT support service is described in this book. Take the service descriptions you need, mix, match and customize them to quickly create the content needed for your own service catalogs and portfolios. "Many books talk about how to build a service catalog--this book is a service catalog!" "We really struggled to identify and pull our IT services together until we saw this material--it saved us months!" "With this material, we can finally tell the business what IT actually delivers to them!" "A valuable reference resource for ITSM practitioners, service managers, CIOs, procurement managers, and anyone else sourcing the services needed to run an entire IT infrastructure operation!" "One can put together an entire IT service management operation just from the service descriptions in this book!"

The ITSM Process Design Guide

Author: Donna Knapp
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
ISBN: 1604270497
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The ITSM Process Design Guide: Developing, Rengineering and Improving IT Service Management closes the knowledge gap by providing detailed guidance on assessing, designing, measuring, and integrating ITSM processes. The advice and techniques in this book apply unilaterally to every IT service provider and ITSM framework, standard, and maturity model.

Servicing Itsm

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490720952
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
What services does the IT organization really deliver? Rather than discuss the theory around what a service catalog or service portfolio is, this book gives you the actual IT service descriptions for running, operating, and managing an entire IT infrastructure. Its all herecomplete service descriptions, catalog and portfolio templates, service implementation plans, service governance processes, and much more all packed into this one handbook! Just about every IT support service is described in this book. Take the service descriptions you need, mix, match and customize them to quickly create the content needed for your own service catalogs and portfolios. Many books talk about how to build a service catalogthis book is a service catalog! We really struggled to identify and pull our IT services together until we saw this materialit saved us months! With this material, we can finally tell the business what IT actually delivers to them! A valuable reference resource for ITSM practitioners, service managers, CIOs, procurement managers, and anyone else sourcing the services needed to run an entire IT infrastructure operation! One can put together an entire IT service management operation just from the service descriptions in this book!

The Practical Guide To World-Class IT Service Management

Author: Kevin J. Smith
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 057818897X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459

Book Description
This guide contains 6 Core and 12 World-Class processes each of which is described in chapters that provide a logical view of the element itself and why it is important to the organization, along with a flexible process model that can be adapted to most businesses and how the process works in practice—plus proven and practical models and Tips for Success from high-performing organizations on implementing the process. The technical content takes a mid-level view to be useful to a broader group of readers and is complemented by other relevant chapters, including: •A Brief History of IT Service Management •Understanding ITIL, COBIT, and ISO •The Consumerization of IT •Making Sense of Cloud and On-Premise •Enterprise Service Management •A Culture of Excellence •An Approach to Leverage Technology •The Exploration of Service Automation The Practical Guide to World-Class IT Service Management also examines the future of IT service management and where this exciting journey is likely to lead.

Implementing ITSM

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149071958X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 461

Book Description
The traditional IT operating model of delivering IT to the business in the form of bundled capabilities and assets is now wearing thin in an age of cloud computing, on-demand services, virtualization, mobile devices, outsourcing and rapidly changing business delivery strategies. The role of IT is rapidly changing from a primary focus on engineering to a primary focus on service integration. How might an IT organization effect this transformation? Finally, there is a book that shows you how! This is not a theoretical treatise but a practical guide that shows you the activities and steps to show results quickly. Learn how to define and build a comprehensive IT service management solution that incorporates process, technology, organization, and governance activities. Discover practical tips and step-by-step approaches for defining your IT Service Management Vision, building your processes, developing a communications strategy, analyzing stakeholders, identifying technology requirements, and building your transformation program. Organizations that have already undertaken a transformation to IT service management are finding game-changing results positively received by both business executives and customers of their IT services. Using this book, start your transformation today!

The Official Introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle

Author: OGC - Office of Government Commerce
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780113310616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
ITIL was created by the UK government in the 1980s as an efficiency-improving initiative. This text gives an essential guide to the overall structure of ITIL and an outline of its principles.

Servicing ITIL

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
ISBN: 9781425140328
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Rather than discuss ITIL theory around Service Catalogs and Portfolios, this book gives you the actual IT service descriptions for running, operating and managing an entire IT infrastructure!

Organizing Itsm

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149076271X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Organizational change for IT people! The first book of its kind written specifically for IT service management practitioners and executives. Most IT organizational structures are falling out of date with the shifts created by the introduction of new technologies, expanding services, pace of business change, and the overall trend of lifting IT up and out of the traditional data center and into the cloud. This is about transitioning the IT organization from engineering silos providing capabilities to valued IT services that deliver business value. IT organizations embarking on IT service management must address both cultural and structural barriers in a way that involves the whole enterprise if they are going to be successful. Readers of this book will find practical guidance for transitioning to the people and culture side of IT service management. It identifies pros and cons of different IT organizational models, how to deal with resistance, building a communications plan step-by-step, training considerations, and much more.

High Velocity Itsm

Author: Randy A. Steinberg
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490776559
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
If you read through this book and still dont believe there is a critical need for IT Service Management then good luck seeing if you can survive in IT for the next 5 years. Agile, DevOps, Lean IT, Virtualization, Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud Computing and many other technologies are rapidly pulling IT in many directions. These modern ways of operating IT to cope with a world of rapid change will not go away. Somehow they need to be pulled together to avoid the chaos. Service Management is the glue needed to hold these all together. There is no IT value for the business until the point a service is received. For this reason, this book is written for IT leaders, managers and practitioners from a Service Management perspective. Having the best development practices, be it Agile, DevOps or others means little if a service is not delivered to the business. When they need it. High Velocity ITSM is about transitioning the IT Organization from traditional waterfall slower service development and support to a service delivery organization operating at high velocity. This book provides practical guidance for: ? Transitioning IT towards high velocity ITSM ? Using Agile and DevOps for rapid service build ? Using Lean IT to operate at high velocity ? Streamlining your ITSM management processes ? Building a Lean IT CSI Program ? Learning and applying modern IT methods and much more!

Service operation

Author: Great Britain. Office of Government Commerce
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0113310463
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Management, Computers, Computer networks, Information exchange, Data processing, IT and Information Management: IT Service Management