ITIL Intermediate Service Capability Continual Service Improvement

Course details

This course is a classroom training relevant for professionals who play a role in developing, implementing, managing and improving IT service quality in order to deliver business value. This course is a free-standing qualification and is also part of the ITIL® intermediate lifecycle stream, and one of the modules that leads to the ITIL® Expert Certificate in IT Service Management. The purpose of this training module and the associated exam and certificate is, respectively, to impart, test and validate the knowledge on industry practices in service management as documented in the official ITIL® Continual Service Improvement publication. Practical examples and real life case studies are used to guide and assist with the understanding of key concepts throughout the course. At the end of the four-day classroom training, the certification exam may be taken.

The ITIL® Continual Service Improvement certificate is awarded to candidates passing the examination. Participants will also earn 28 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units upon course completion.

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction to CSI

• The purpose, objectives and scope of CSI
• The value to the business of adopting and implementing CSI
• The context of CSI in the ITIL® service lifecycle
• The approach to CSI, including key interfaces and inputs and outputs

CSI principles

• How the success of CSI depends on understanding change in the organization and principles having clear accountability
• How service level management and knowledge management influence and support CSI
• How the complete Deming Cycle works, and how it can be applied to a real world example
• How CSI can make effective use of the various aspects of service measurement
• What situations require the use of frameworks and models, and examples of how each type can be used to achieve improvement

CSI process

• What the seven step improvement process is, how each step can be applied and the benefits produced
• How CSI integrates with the other stages in the ITIL® service lifecycle
• How other processes play key roles in the seven-step improvement process

CSI methods and techniques

• When to use assessments, what to assess and how a gap analysis can provide insight into the areas that have room for improvement
• How to use benchmarking, service measurement, metrics, service reporting, including balanced scorecard and SWOT, to support CSI
• How to create a return on investment, establish a business case and measure the benefits achieved
• How techniques within availability management, capacity management, IT service continuity management and problem management can be used by CSI

Organizing for CSI

• The role of the CSI manager, and the roles of service owner, process owner, process manager and process practitioner in the context of CSI and how they can be positioned within an organization
• How to design, implement and populate a RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed) diagram as well as how to use it to support CSI

Technology considerations

• The technology and tools required and how these would be implemented and managed to support CSI activities such as performance, project and portfolio management, as well as service measurement and business intelligence reporting

Implementing CSI

• CSI implementation: strategy, planning, governance, communication, project management, operation, as well as how to deal with cultural and organizational change

Challenges, critical success factors and risks

• The challenges and risks such as staffing, funding, management, etc., which can be related to CSI and the details behind how each challenge can be addressed
• The critical success factors related to CSI as well as how to measure and monitor them