ITIL For Dummies provides an easy-to-understand introduction to using best practice guidance within IT service management. It breaks down the 5 stages of the service lifecycle into digestible chunks, helping you to ensure that customers receive the best possible IT experience. Whether readers need to identify their customers' needs, design and implement a new IT service, or monitor and improve an existing service, this official guide provides a support framework for IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users. Understanding how ITIL can help you Getting to grips with ITIL processes and the service lifecycle Implementing ITIL into your day to day work Learn key skills in planning and carrying out design and implementation projects

A plain-English guide to managing IT from the customer's perspective Practical guidance on delivering and managing IT so that it meets the multiple needs and demands of a company and its customers and end-users–both inside and outside the organization–is hard to come by; this accessible book takes a common-sense approach that explains exactly what IT services are and how to fit them most effectively into a business Topics include setting a framework, keeping costs down, improving efficiency, and maintaining standards and best practices This concept of how IT should be wired specifically into the goals and need of the company and its customers is part of a broader picture that includes ITIL, BPM, SOA, and Six Sigma

Under today’s shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.

A 2019 Axiom Business Award winner. In The Customer Centricity Playbook , Wharton School professor Peter Fader and Wharton Interactive's executive director Sarah Toms help you see your customers as individuals rather than a monolith, so you can stop wasting resources by chasing down product sales to each and every consumer.

Available for the First Time—Three Books in One! The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection is a must-have for any business leader looking to understand and implement customer-centric strategies. This collection includes three essential books by renowned experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, Michael Ross, and Sarah Toms, all of whom are leaders in the field of customer centricity. The collection includes three books in a single volume:Customer Centricity, by Peter FaderThe Customer Centricity Playbook, by Peter Fader and Sarah TomsThe Customer-Base Audit, by Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection offers a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and measuring the impact of customer-centric strategies.

Written by an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) consulting and training expert, this all-new guide helps you pass the ITIL v3 Foundation certification exam and serves as an on-the-job reference. ITIL Foundation All-in-One Exam Guide takes you through ITIL Foundation v3 (2011), explaining the fundamentals of IT Service Management, the five stages of the service lifecycle, ITIL processes, functions within them, and their crucial interactions, all while clearing up common misapprehensions about ITIL and adding valuable insights and examples. The ITIL is the best practice framework adopted worldwide for managing IT services, and the ITIL Foundation Certification can be considered a pre-requisite for success for all involved in IT services, as well as a stepping stone to IT Service Management certifications in ITIL. Exam Tips, accelerated reviews, and end-of-chapter practice exam questions ensure you’re on track to pass the Foundation exam. Filled with practical exercises and examples that reinforce learning, the book and electronic content include more than 300 practice exam questions and exclusive, real-world examples of how an understanding of ITIL can be used to address common service management challenges. ITIL Licensed Product -- an official endorsement of the quality and accuracy of the book's content Electronic content includes practice exams in a customizable test engine, video training from the author on key concepts, worksheets, and a Quick Review Guide In-depth case studies analyze projects end-to-end through ITIL's framework, taken from the author's 40 years of experience as an ITIL consultant Jim Davies, ITSM UK’s 2013 Trainer of the Year and ITIL Champion provides his “10 Commandments” of IT Service Management

ITIL For Dummies provides an easy-to-understand introduction to using best practice guidance within IT service management. It breaks down the 5 stages of the service lifecycle into digestible chunks, helping you to ensure that customers receive the best possible IT experience. Whether readers need to identify their customers' needs, design and implement a new IT service, or monitor and improve an existing service, this official guide provides a support framework for IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users. Understanding how ITIL can help you Getting to grips with ITIL processes and the service lifecycle Implementing ITIL into your day to day work Learn key skills in planning and carrying out design and implementation projects

The Business-Focused, Best-Practice Guide to Succeeding with ITIL Change and Release Management ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library®) can help organizations streamline and integrate their operations, dramatically improving efficiency and delivering greater business value. For the first time, there's a comprehensive best-practice guide to succeeding with two of the most crucial and challenging parts of ITIL: change and release management. Leading IBM® ITIL expert and author Larry Klosterboer shares solid expertise gained from real implementations across multiple industries. He helps you decide where to invest, avoid ITIL pitfalls, and build successful, long-term processes that deliver real return on investment. You’ll find detailed guidance on each process, integrated into a comprehensive roadmap for planning, implementation, and operation–a roadmap available nowhere else. Klosterboer offers in-depth coverage of the crucial issues every implementer will face, including make-or-break challenges most consultants can’t or won’t talk about. For example, he demonstrates how to set a reasonable project scope, migrate data, execute successful pilot programs, and continually improve quality once ITIL practices are in place. This book’s practical insights will be invaluable to every IT executive, professional, and user who wants to bring their current change and release practices in line with ITIL–and transform them from a source of frustration into a source of value. Coverage includes Discovering and managing your change and release management requirements Identifying the resources you’ll need to succeed Building comprehensive schedules for executing change/release management projects Moving from planning to real-world implementation Choosing the right tools–or modifying the tools you’ve already invested in Using change/release management to facilitate auditing and ensure compliance Leveraging the full business benefits of mature change/release management processes Covers ITIL version 3

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Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management, in a manner that is easy to understand. The authors provide a context for discussing several areas of application within this domain, allowing you to quickly gain insight into IT processes and Lean principles.The text reviews IT Service Management, with reference to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as a framework for best practices explaining how to use it to accommodate Lean processes and operations. Filled with straightforward examples, it provides enough modeling tools so you can start your Lean journey right away. Examining the work of IT from an IT practitioner perspective, the book includes coverage of:The OM Perspectiveconsiders the work of IT from an Operations Management (OM) perspective, showing how many of the concepts that have been successfully applied within manufacturing can be applied to ITThe Lean Improvement Modelexplains Lean concepts and practices and details the authors Lean improvement modelLean Problem-Solving (Identifying and Understanding Problems)considers operational work in IT and explains how to apply Lean practices related to problem identification and root cause analysisLean Problem-Solving (Identifying and Managing Solutions)describes how to use good problem identification as the basis for identifying the right solutionsLean IT Service Managementexamines IT work from an IT Service Management perspective, using the ITIL framework as a guideImplementing and Sustaining Lean IT Improvementsexplains how to implement and sustain Lean IT improvementsT