ITIL® Foundation ITIL 4 Edition
Contents
Welcome to ITIL 4
About this publication
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
1.1 IT service management in the modern world
1.2 About ITIL 4
1.3 The structure and benefits of the ITIL 4 framework
1.3.1 The ITIL SVS
Figure 1.1 The service value system
1.3.2 The four dimensions model
CHAPTER 2 KEY CONCEPTS
OF SERVICE
MANAGEMENT
2 Key concepts of service management
2.1 Value and value co-creation
2.1.1 Value co-creation
2.2 Organizations, service providers, service consumers, and other stakeholders
2.2.1 Service providers
2.2.2 Service consumers
2.2.3 Other stakeholders
Table 2.1 Examples of value for different types of stakeholder
2.3 Products and services
2.3.1 Configuring resources for value creation
2.3.2 Service offerings
Table 2.2 Components of a service offering
2.4 Service relationships
2.4.1 The service relationship model
Figure 2.1 The service relationship model
2.5 Value: outcomes, costs, and risks
2.5.1 Outcomes
Figure 2.2 Achieving value: outcomes, costs, and risks
2.5.2 Costs
2.5.3 Risks
2.5.4 Utility and warranty
2.6 Summary
CHAPTER 3 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT
3 The four dimensions of service management
Figure 3.1 The four dimensions of service management
3.1 Organizations and people
3.2 Information and technology
3.3 Partners and suppliers
Table 3.1 Relationships between organizations
3.4 Value streams and processes
3.4.1 Value streams for service management
3.4.2 Processes
3.5 External factors
3.6 Summary
CHAPTER 4 THE ITIL SERVICE VALUE SYSTEM
4 The ITIL servicevalue system
4.1 Service value system overview
Figure 4.1 The ITIL service value system
4.2 Opportunity, demand, and value
4.3 The ITIL guiding principles
Table 4.1 Overview of the guiding principles
4.3.1 Focus on value
4.3.2 Start where you are
4.3.3 Progress iteratively with feedback
4.3.4 Collaborate and promote visibility
4.3.5 Think and work holistically
4.3.6 Keep it simple and practical
4.3.7 Optimize and automate
4.3.8 Principle interaction
4.4 Governance
4.4.1 Governing bodies and governance
4.4.2 Governance in the SVS
4.5 Service value chain
Figure 4.2 The ITIL service value chain
4.5.1 Plan
4.5.2 Improve
4.5.3 Engage
4.5.4 Design and transition
4.5.5 Obtain/build
4.5.6 Deliver and support
4.6 Continual improvement
Figure 4.3 The continual improvement model
4.6.1 Steps of the continual improvement model
4.6.2 Continual improvement and the guiding principles
Table 4.2 The steps of the continual improvement model linked to the most relevant ITIL guiding principles
4.7 Practices
4.8 Summary
CHAPTER 5 ITIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
5 ITIL management practices
Table 5.1 The ITIL management practices
5.1 General management practices
5.1.1 Architecture management
Figure 5.1 Heat map of the contribution of architecture management to value chain activities
5.1.2 Continual improvement
Figure 5.2 Heat map of the contribution of continual improvement to value chain activities
5.1.3 Information security management
Figure 5.3 Heat map of the contribution of information security management to value chain activities
5.1.4 Knowledge management
Figure 5.4 Heat map of the contribution of knowledge management to value chain activities
5.1.5 Measurement and reporting
Figure 5.5 Heat map of the contribution of measurement and reporting to value chain activities
5.1.6 Organizational change management
Table 5.2 Organizational change management activities
Figure 5.6 Heat map of the contribution of organizational change management to value chain activities
5.1.7 Portfolio management
Figure 5.7 Heat map of the contribution of portfolio management to value chain activities
5.1.8 Project management
Figure 5.8 Heat map of the contribution of project management to value chain activities
5.1.9 Relationship management
Figure 5.9 Heat map of the contribution of relationship management to value chain activities
5.1.10 Risk management
Figure 5.10 Heat map of the contribution of risk management to value chain activities
5.1.11 Service financial management
Figure 5.11 Heat map of the contribution of service financial management to value chain activities
5.1.12 Strategy management
Figure 5.12 Heat map of the contribution of strategy management to value chain activities
5.1.13 Supplier management
Figure 5.13 Heat map of the contribution of supplier management to value chain activities
5.1.14 Workforce and talent management
Figure 5.14 Workforce and talent management activities
Figure 5.15 Heat map of the contribution of workforce and talent management to value chain activities
5.2 Service management practices
5.2.1 Availability management
Figure 5.16 Heat map of the contribution of availability management to value chain activities
5.2.2 Business analysis
Figure 5.17 Heat map of the contribution of business analysis to value chain activities
5.2.3 Capacity and performance management
Figure 5.18 Heat map of the contribution of capacity and performance management to value chain activities
5.2.4 Change control
Figure 5.19 Heat map of the contribution of change control to value chain activities
5.2.5 Incident management
Figure 5.20 Heat map of the contribution of incident management to value chain activities
5.2.6 IT asset management
Figure 5.21 Heat map of the contribution of IT asset management to value chain activities
5.2.7 Monitoring and event management
Figure 5.22 Heat map of the contribution of monitoring and event management to value chain activities
5.2.8 Problem management
Figure 5.23 The phases of problem management
Figure 5.24 Heat map of the contribution of problem management to value chain activities
5.2.9 Release management
Figure 5.25 Release management in a traditional/waterfall environment
Figure 5.26 Release management in an Agile/DevOps en
Figure 5.27 Heat map of the contribution of release management to value chain activities
5.2.10 Service catalogue management
Figure 5.28 Heat map of the contribution of service catalogue management to value chain activities
5.2.11 Service configuration management
Figure 5.29 Simplified service model for a typical IT service
Figure 5.30 Heat map of the contribution of service configuration management to value chain activities
5.2.12 Service continuity management
Table 5.3 Examples of disaster sources, stakeholders involved, and organizational impact
Figure 5.31 Heat map of the contribution of service continuity management to value chain activities
5.2.13 Service design
Figure 5.32 Heat map of the contribution of service design to value chain activities
5.2.14 Service desk
Figure 5.33 Heat map of the contribution of the service desk to value chain activities
5.2.15 Service level management
Figure 5.34 Heat map of the contribution of service level management to value chain activities
5.2.16 Service request management
Figure 5.35 Heat map of the contribution of service request management to value chain activities
5.2.17 Service validation and testing
Figure 5.36 Heat map of the contribution of service validation and testing to value chain activities
5.3 Technical management practices
5.3.1 Deployment management
Figure 5.37 Heat map of the contribution of deployment management to value chain activities
5.3.2 Infrastructure and platform management
Figure 5.38 Heat map of the contribution of infrastructure and platform management to value chain activities
5.3.3 Software development and management
Figure 5.39 The software lifecycle
Figure 5.40 Heat map of the contribution of software development and management to value chain activities
END NOTE
End note: The ITIL story, one year on
APPENDIX
A Examples of value streams
A.1 A user needs an incident to be resolved
Table A.1 Value streams for incident resolution
A.2 An error in third-party software creates issues for a user
Table A.2 Value streams for software issues
A.3 Business requirement for a significant new IT service
Table A.3 Value streams for creation of an IT service
A.4 Regulatory change requires new software development
Table A.4 Value streams for new software development
Further research
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index