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ITIL 4 essentials : your essential guide for the ITIL 4 Foundation exam and beyond / Claire Agutter.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Agutter, Claire, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Information technology--Management--Examinations--Study guides.
Information technology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England : IT Governance Publishing, [2020]
Summary:
ITIL® 4 Essentials contains everything you need to know to pass the ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate, plus more.
Contents:
Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Key concepts of service management
Why is service management important?
Why use ITIL® for service management?
A brief history of ITIL
Why has ITIL been successful?
Value
Service management
Service management as a professional practice
Organisation
Co-creation
Chapter 2: Service management roles
Some role considerations
Service provider
Stakeholder
Service relationship
Service consumer
Using RACI models for role mapping
Chapter 3: All about services
Products and services
Outputs and outcomes
Cost and risk
Utility and warranty
Chapter 4: Service relationships
Service offerings
Service relationships
The service relationship model
Chapter 5: The four dimensions of service management
Dimension 1: Organizations &amp
people
Dimension 2: Information &amp
technology
Dimension 3: Partners &amp
suppliers
Dimension 4: Value streams &amp
processes
Chapter 6: The Service Value System
Chapter 7: The SVS: Opportunity, demand, value
Chapter 8: The SVS: Guiding principles
Guiding principle 1: Focus on value
Guiding principle 2: Start where you are
Guiding principle 3: Progress iteratively with feedback
Guiding principle 4: Collaborate and promote visibility
Guiding principle 5: Think and work holistically
Guiding principle 6: Keep it simple and practical
Guiding principle 7: Optimize and automate
The benefits of automation
Getting ready to automate
Service management automation
Chapter 9: The SVS: Governance
Chapter 10: The SVS: The service value chain
Activity: Plan
Activity: Improve
Activity: Engage
Activity: Design &amp
transition
Activity: Obtain/build
Activity: Deliver &amp
support.
Chapter 11: ITIL practices introduced
From processes to practices
Process models
Chapter 12: General management practices
Continual improvement
Practice considerations
Putting continual improvement to work
Architecture management
Information security management
Knowledge management
Measurement and reporting
Organisational change management
Portfolio management
Project management
Relationship management
Risk management
Service financial management
Strategy management
Supplier management
Service integration and management
Workforce and talent management
Chapter 13: Service management practices
Availability management
Business analysis
Process considerations
Capacity and performance management
Change enablement
Incident management
IT asset management
Monitoring and event management
Problem management
Release management
Service catalogue management
Service configuration management
Service continuity management
Service design
Design thinking
The service desk
Service level management
Service request management.
Practice considerations
Service validation and testing
Chapter 14: Technical management practices
Deployment management
Infrastructure and platform management
Software development and management
Chapter 15: Service management training and qualifications
The ITIL qualification scheme
Chapter 16: Multiple-choice exam strategies
The ITIL Foundation certificate
Sample exams
Approaching multiple-choice exams
Bibliography
Further reading.
Notes:
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-78778-219-0
OCLC:
1153077306

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