Introduction and Overview
- Purpose and goals
- Scope of Service Design
- Doing it right the first time
- Designing new and changed service
- How Service Design creates business value
Key Service Design Principles
Five aspects of Service Design
- New or changes service solutions
- Service management systems and tools
- Technology architectures and management systems
- Processes, roles and capabilities
- Measurement, methods and metrics
Four Ps of Design
- People
- Products
- Processes
- Partners
Primary Activities of Service Design
Analyzing business requirements
- Collection, analyzing and engineering requirements
- Evaluating Service Design models
- Identifying solution alternatives reusing existing components
- Designing the appropriate solution
- Developing service acceptance criteria
- Evaluating total costs and agree expenditures
Achieving balance between design and existing strategies
- Ensuring inclusion of governance and security controls
- Completing IT readiness assessment
- Aligning supplier and supporting agreements
- Assembling the Service Design Package (SDP)
- Producing, maintaining and revising all services, design processes and documents
- Liaison with other design and planning activities
- Aligning with corporate and IT strategies
Service Design Processes
Service Catalog Management (SCM)
- Managing the Service Catalog
- Providing a central source of information on IT services delivered to the business by the service provider
- Ensuring the business can view an accurate and consistent picture of IT services available, including details and status
| Service Level Management (SLM)
- Negotiating, agreeing and documenting appropriate IT service targets with the business
- Monitoring and producing reports on delivery against agreed level of service
Capacity Management
- Matching capacity of IT to agreed business demands
- Capacity Management: right resource, right time, right cost
Availability Management
- Ensuring that availability targets are measured and achieved in a cost-effective manner
- Building availability into the design
IT Service Continuity Management
- Maintaining ongoing recovery capability to match agreed needs, requirements and time scales
- Developing service continuity and recovery plans
- Aligning plans with business needs over time
Service Design and Technology
Technology-related activities
- Requirements Engineering: requirement types, activities and techniques
- Data and Information Management activities
- Techniques within Application Management
- Investigating Service Design requirements
- Technology considerations for Service Design
Organizing Service Design
- Roles appropriate within Service Design and Service Design-focused processes
- Defining Service Design responsibilities
- Aligning information security with business security
- Managing suppliers to ensure quality and value for money
Implementation Challenges and Risks
- Outlining the challenges and risks facing Service Design
- Establishing critical success factors and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Developing risk-benefit analyses for adoption of Service Design
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