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Contents

Introduction

A key process in the Service Strategy life cycle phase.

Goals & Objectives

  • To ensure that the Service Portfolio is up to date:
    • The Pipeline includes services that are aligned to the strategy
    • The Service Catalogue is consistent with the rest of the Service Portfolio

Terminology

  • Pipeline: The services we want to be able to deliver in the future
  • Service Catalogue: Descriptions of all the operational services we are able to deliver today
  • Retired services: Descriptions of all the services that we no longer offer

Roles

Scope

Activities

Input from Category:Strategy Generation Management should be treated as follows:

Define

  • What do we offer today?
  • Do we have valid Business Cases for every proposed new service?
  • Is the Service Portfolio up to date?

Analyze

  • Which proposed services will be most appropriate to achieve our future goals?
  • What resources and capabilities are needed to move these services from the Pipeline to the Service Catalogue?
  • What resources and capabilities are available?
  • Which proposed services should be prioritized?

Approve

  • Verify the list of proposed services
  • Remove unnecessary items
  • Authorise the list of proposed services
  • Authorise the use of resources and capabilities needed

Charter

  • Communicate the decisions as appropriate
  • Allocate the resources needed
  • Give the final go-ahead

Interfaces

Inputs/Outputs

Inputs

Input from Strategy Generation Management

Outputs

  • An up to date Service Portfolio
  • A list of chartered services to be created.

Value to the Business

A clear view of

  • What the IT Service Provider does
  • How it does it
  • What it want to do (Where it is going)
  • What it has done (Where it has been)

Implementation

Challenges to implementation

Flow Chart Model

Tips for exam

References and resources

Service Transition, OGC

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