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 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!

How do you implement ITIL? 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. In this book you will learn about: Defining and building a comprehensive implementation approach that incorporates process, technology, organization and governance activities; Practical tips and step-by-step approaches for defining your Service Management Vision, building your processes, developing a communications strategy, analyzing stakeholders, identifying technology requirements and building your implementation program; What areas should be addressed as part of a proper assessment approach and how to focus assessment efforts to gain the maximum results from 3rd party consultants; How to best organize your program work plans; What key Work Products need to be produced by each step in your program; Different options for transitioning your Service Management solutions and building an appropriate IT Service Management organization. In addition, this book is chock full of reference charts where you can easily find things such as Service Management Organizational Role descriptions, input and output dependencies for every ITIL process and function, work products that should be produced by each process, key tooling functions and more. This is a comprehensive guide for building your IT Service Management program with all the information you need in one place. "This is the book we've been waiting for! It definitely complements much of the available ITIL literature that describes the processes, but not how you actually get them implemented!" "We will use many of these concepts in our program planning!" "Real, valuable, informative - Great!" "Some great tips for implementing ITIL!" "Very valuable information!"

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.

Guides the reader through an ITSM transformation journey based on the authors’ real-world experiences, in a ten-step approach.

This book 'Implementing Metrics for IT Service Management' provides a measurement framework which is based on a continuous improvement lifecycle. The measurement framework is aligned with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) set of best practices. The framework is compatible with the Control Objectives for IT (CobiT®) framework and supports ISO/IEC 20000 standards for IT Service Management. This book also provides the basic concepts around measurements for business/IT alignment, achieving compliance and driving operation excellence. Where possible, examples, case studies and check lists have been included along with a scorecard accelerator software tool to further improve the learning experience and accelerate the adoption of measurements. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with a measurement framework to align IT with the business objectives to create value through continuous improvements. This book is complimentary to the book 'Metrics for IT Service Management' also published by Van Haren Publishing.