Category Archives: Services

The Four Aspects of IT Services, Aspect One

IT service management is about delivering sustainable value to the business from the use of technology. It is not about defining the best process. It’s not about assigning process owners or service level managers. It is not about implementing a … Continue reading

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What is a Service

Service is an integrated composite that consists of a number of components, such as management processes, hardware, software, facilities and people that provides a capability to satisfy a stated management need or objective. IT services can be divided into customer/end-user … Continue reading

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Who Cares what a Process is?

Process is a series of related activities aimed at achieving a set of objectives in a measurable, usually repeatable manner. It has defined information inputs and outputs, consumes resources and is subjected to management controls over time, cost and quality. … Continue reading

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Service Focus Trumps Technology Focus

Every IT organization is familiar with the natural boundaries for communication and cooperation that arise from organizing IT around technology specialties, which are often referred to as technology silos. In the past, there was good reason to organize IT in … Continue reading

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Services Have Types?

Service is an integrated composite that consists of a number of components, such as management processes, hardware, software, facilities and people that provides a capability to satisfy a stated management need or objective. IT services can be divided into customer/end-user … Continue reading

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Customers Want Business Services from IT

Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) embodies the idea that the IT department is a service organization, delivering IT services to the business. As such, IT should be focused on creating and delivering IT services that are defined in business terms. … Continue reading

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IT is Dead, Long Live IT

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. – Alfred North Whitehead IT is a mere infant in the business world, having existed no more than a few decades. By contrast, professions such as accounting, production, economics, … Continue reading

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