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A Practical Guide to Service Management

You're reading from   A Practical Guide to Service Management Insights from industry experts for uncovering, implementing, and improving service management practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804612507
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Keith D. Sutherland Keith D. Sutherland
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Keith D. Sutherland – Forty-plus years in IT including specific practitioner experience across several industries: Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Health Care, and Customer Care. Twenty years’ experience in applying Service Management principles to day-to-day management of IT. Twenty years Master/Manager certified in ITIL/IT Service Management (ITSM), recognizing the ability to use years of IT experience, coupled with best practice disciplines, to provide optimal and pragmatic processes to help support IT services to all business units (IT inclusive). Keith has fifteen years’ experience in managing, moving, and upgrading data center environments, including all facets of Operations Control and Facilities Management.
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Lawrence J. "Butch" Sheets Lawrence J. "Butch" Sheets
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Lawrence J. Sheets – More than 50 years in IT, including Service Management practitioner experience across banking, military, and manufacturing, with 10 years spent as the architect for a Service Management implementation and the last 14 years as a Service Management educator and consultant. Over twenty (20) years’ experience in applying IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles to day-to-day management of IT. 20 years Master/Manager certified in ITIL/IT Service Management (ITSM), recognizing the ability to use years of IT experience, coupled with best practice disciplines, to provide solid processes to help support IT services to all business units (IT inclusive). Nine (9) years’ experience in applying 6 Sigma to ITSM projects.
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Preface 1. Part 1: The Importance of Service Management
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Service Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting to Grips with Service Management Frameworks 4. Chapter 3: Working with the “Design Thinking” Aspect of Service Management 5. Chapter 4: Systems Thinking in Terms of Service Management 6. Part 2: Essential Process Capabilities for Effective Service Management
7. Chapter 5: Service Management Key Concepts 8. Chapter 6: Incident Management 9. Chapter 7: Problem Management 10. Chapter 8: Change Management 11. Chapter 9: Release and Deployment Management 12. Chapter 10: Request Management 13. Chapter 11: Service Catalog Management 14. Chapter 12: Service Asset Management 15. Chapter 13: Configuration Management 16. Chapter 14: Business Relationship Management 17. Chapter 15: Service Level Management 18. Part 3: How to Apply a Pragmatic, Customized Service Management Capability
19. Chapter 16: Pragmatic Application of Service Management 20. Chapter 17: Implementing a Successful Service Management Capability with Key Artifacts 21. Chapter 18: Reviewing Critical Success Factors for Service Management Capability 22. Chapter 19: Realizing CSFs for Service Management Implementation 23. Chapter 20: Sustaining a Service Management Practice 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: SLA Template 1. Appendix B: SLR Template

Part 3: How to Apply a Pragmatic, Customized Service Management Capability

Part 3 describes many key elements to practically implement a service management capability, customized to an organization’s business needs in a sustainable and repeatable approach.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 16, Pragmatic Application of Service Management
  • Chapter 17, Implementing a Successful Service Management Capability with Key Artifacts
  • Chapter 18, Reviewing Critical Success Factors for Service Management Capability
  • Chapter 19, Realizing CSFs for Service Management Implementation
  • Chapter 20, Sustaining a Service Management Practice
  • Appendix A, SLA Template
  • Appendix B, SLR Template
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Keith D. Sutherland – Forty-plus years in IT including specific practitioner experience across several industries: Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Health Care, and Customer Care. Twenty years' experience in applying Service Management principles to day-to-day management of IT. Twenty years Master/Manager certified in ITIL/IT Service Management (ITSM), recognizing the ability to use years of IT experience, coupled with best practice disciplines, to provide optimal and pragmatic processes to help support IT services to all business units (IT inclusive). Keith has fifteen years' experience in managing, moving, and upgrading data center environments, including all facets of Operations Control and Facilities Management.
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Lawrence J. Sheets – More than 50 years in IT, including Service Management practitioner experience across banking, military, and manufacturing, with 10 years spent as the architect for a Service Management implementation and the last 14 years as a Service Management educator and consultant. Over twenty (20) years' experience in applying IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles to day-to-day management of IT. 20 years Master/Manager certified in ITIL/IT Service Management (ITSM), recognizing the ability to use years of IT experience, coupled with best practice disciplines, to provide solid processes to help support IT services to all business units (IT inclusive). Nine (9) years' experience in applying 6 Sigma to ITSM projects.
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