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Contents at a Glance

 

Introduction ................................................................

1

Part I: Introducing Service Management .......................

5

Chapter 1: Understanding Service Management ...........................................................

7

Chapter 2: Getting Inside Service Management...........................................................

15

Chapter 3: The Customer Is King...................................................................................

25

Part II: Getting the Foundation in Place......................

33

Chapter 4: Service Management Standards and Best Practices ................................

35

Chapter 5: Implementing ITIL.........................................................................................

47

Chapter 6: Implementing a Service Management Strategy.........................................

57

Chapter 7: Launching into Service Management .........................................................

73

Part III: Service Management Technical Foundation.....

81

Chapter 8: The Service Management Universe............................................................

83

Chapter 9: The Technical Foundation of Service Management.................................

95

Chapter 10: Governing the Service Universe..............................................................

109

Part IV: Nitty-Gritty Service Management ................

119

Chapter 11: Managing the Data Center .......................................................................

121

Chapter 12: Service Support and the Service Desk ...................................................

141

Chapter 13: Desktop and Device Management ..........................................................

155

Chapter 14: Data Management in a Service Management World.............................

169

Chapter 15: Virtualizing the Computing Environment..............................................

179

Chapter 16: IT Security and Service Management.....................................................

193

Chapter 17: Business Service Management................................................................

207

Chapter 18: Planning the Evolution of the Data Center ............................................

215

Part V: Real Life with Service Management...............

225

Chapter 19: Manufacturing ...........................................................................................

227

Chapter 20: Health Care ................................................................................................

239

Chapter 21: Retail...........................................................................................................

253

Chapter 22: Hospitality .................................................................................................

257

Chapter 23: Education...................................................................................................

263

Chapter 24: Service Provider........................................................................................

267

Part VI: The Part of Tens ..........................................

273

Chapter 25: Ten Service Management Dos and Don’ts .............................................

275

Chapter 26: Ten Swell Service Management Resources ...........................................

279

Glossary..................................................................

283

Index ......................................................................

297

Table of Contents

 

Introduction .................................................................

1

About This Book ..............................................................................................

1

Foolish Assumptions.......................................................................................

2

How This Book Is Organized ..........................................................................

2

Part I: Introducing Service Management ......................................................

2

Part II: Getting the Foundation in Place........................................................

2

Part III: Service Management Technical Foundation...................................

3

Part IV: Nitty-Gritty Service Management ....................................................

3

Part V: Real Life with Service Management..................................................

3

Part VI: The Part of Tens ................................................................................

3

Icons Used in This Book .................................................................................

4

Where to Go from Here...................................................................................

4

Part I: Introducing Service Management ........................

5

Chapter 1: Understanding Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.7

Knowing That Everything Is a Service ..........................................................

8

Looking at How the Digital World Has

 

Turned Everything Upside Down...............................................................

9

Implementing Service Management ............................................................

10

Managing Services Effectively......................................................................

11

Behind-the-scenes management activities .......................................

11

Provider/customer collaboration ......................................................

13

Chapter 2: Getting Inside Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15

Building a Foundation for Service Management........................................

15

Inputs and outputs ..............................................................................

17

Assets and tools...................................................................................

18

A standardized process model ..........................................................

19

Skilled participants..............................................................................

20

Seeing the Importance of Oversight............................................................

21

Balancing the Physical World and IT Systems...........................................

22

Physical and IT systems......................................................................

22

Service best practices .........................................................................

23

Service delivery and oversight...........................................................

23

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Chapter 3: The Customer Is King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Understanding Customers’ Expectations...................................................

26

Looking at a Service from the Outside........................................................

26

Understanding Service Management ..........................................................

28

Dealing with the Commercial Reality..........................................................

29

Gaining Control of Services and Service Components .............................

30

Part II: Getting the Foundation in Place.......................

33

Chapter 4: Service Management Standards and Best Practices . . .

.35

Understanding What Best Practices and Standards Can Do for You......

36

Using Standards and Best Practices to Improve Quality..........................

37

Finding Standards..........................................................................................

39

ITIL.........................................................................................................

39

ISO..........................................................................................................

41

COBIT ....................................................................................................

42

eTOM .....................................................................................................

44

Getting Certified.............................................................................................

44

Chapter 5: Implementing ITIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.47

ITIL V3: A Useful Blueprint for Enterprise Service Management.............

48

Book 1: Service Strategy......................................................................

48

Book 2: Service Design ........................................................................

49

Book 3: Service Transition..................................................................

51

Book 4: Service Operation ..................................................................

52

Book 5: Continual Service Improvement...........................................

54

Practical Considerations in Implementing ITIL .........................................

54

How ITIL Integrates with Other Best-Practices Frameworks...................

55

Chapter 6: Implementing a Service Management Strategy . . . . . . . .

.57

Seeing What Service Management Can Do for Your Organization..........

57

Considering a real-world example .....................................................

58

Relating the example to service management .................................

59

Starting with the Service Strategy ...............................................................

59

Creating a service strategy .................................................................

60

Finding out what customers really want ..........................................

60

Creating a Service Management Plan..........................................................

61

Defining a Service Management Plan ..........................................................

62

Understanding Service Management and Governance.............................

63

Automating Service .......................................................................................

65

Planning Service Strategy and Service Management ................................

67

 

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Finding Out How Your Organization Measures Up ...................................

67

 

Seeing What Service Management Will

 

 

Look Like in Your Organization ...............................................................

68

 

Putting the focus on business performance.....................................

69

 

Understanding service oriented architecture..................................

69

 

Getting to the Desired End State .................................................................

71

 

Chapter 7: Launching into Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .73

 

Four Key Elements to Consider ...................................................................

74

 

Education: A crucial component........................................................

74

 

Service strategy: The driver of the service management plan ......

76

 

Assessment: Where you are today and where you want to go......

77

 

Service management plan: A road map for moving forward..........

78

 

Don’t Forget to Measure, Monitor, and Optimize......................................

79

 

Part III: Service Management Technical Foundation......

81

 

Chapter 8: The Service Management Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.83

 

Viewing Service Management in a Business Model...................................

84

 

Understanding the Six Layers of Service Management ............................

85

 

Defining the six layers .........................................................................

86

 

Recognizing the dynamic nature of the six layers...........................

88

 

Determining the Value of Service Management.........................................

90

 

Support costs .......................................................................................

90

 

Optimization costs...............................................................................

91

 

Risk costs ..............................................................................................

92

 

Change costs ........................................................................................

93

 

Chapter 9: The Technical Foundation of Service Management . . . .

.95

 

Understanding the Relationships in Systems ............................................

96

 

Computers and computer networks .................................................

96

 

Service management systems ............................................................

97

 

Working with a Configuration Management Database..............................

98

 

Integration infrastructure ...................................................................

99

 

Asset management and discovery...................................................

101

 

Identity management.........................................................................

102

 

Configuration management ..............................................................

103

 

Federating the CMDB ..................................................................................

104

 

Strategy ...............................................................................................

106

 

Maturity...............................................................................................

106

 

Key performance indicators.............................................................

107

 

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Chapter 10: Governing the Service Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Understanding the Roles of IT Governance .............................................

109

Helping the organization meet its goals..........................................

110

Providing a view from the top..........................................................

110

Improving efficiency ..........................................................................

111

Balancing IT and Business Requirements ................................................

112

Measuring and Monitoring Performance..................................................

113

Measurement methods .....................................................................

113

Proactive communication.................................................................

114

Making Governance Work ..........................................................................

114

Developing Best Practices..........................................................................

115

Establishing a governance body ......................................................

116

Monitoring and measuring IT service performance......................

117

Cataloging control and compliance data ........................................

117

Part IV: Nitty-Gritty Service Management .................

119

Chapter 11: Managing the Data Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .121

Understanding the Siloed Nature of the Data Center .............................

121

Seeing the Data Center As a Factory .........................................................

122

Optimizing the Data Center........................................................................

124

Managing the Data Center ..........................................................................

126

Supplier management........................................................................

126

Governance and compliance............................................................

127

Managing the Facility ..................................................................................

128

Asset optimization.............................................................................

128

Facility management..........................................................................

129

Disaster recovery...............................................................................

130

Managing Workloads...................................................................................

131

Application self-service.....................................................................

132

IT process automation ......................................................................

133

Workload automation........................................................................

134

Managing Hardware ....................................................................................

134

Desktop and device management....................................................

134

Hardware provisioning and virtualization......................................

135

Network management .......................................................................

135

Managing Data Resources ..........................................................................

136

Managing the Software Environment........................................................

137

Managing the Service Management Infrastructure .................................

138

Cloud computing................................................................................

138

Service management reporting ........................................................

138

Integration infrastructure .................................................................

138

Understanding Strategy and Maturity ......................................................

139

 

 

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Chapter 12: Service Support and the Service Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

141

 

Watching the Service Desk in Action . . .

or Inaction ..............................

141

 

Seeing How a Service Desk Works.............................................................

 

 

142

 

Goals of the service desk ..................................................................

 

 

143

 

Functions of the service desk...........................................................

 

 

144

 

Managing Events..........................................................................................

 

 

144

 

Reporting on events ..........................................................................

 

 

145

 

Diagnosing problems.........................................................................

 

 

145

 

Remediating and verifying problems ..............................................

148

 

Tracking Service Key Performance Indicators ........................................

151

 

Service-level metrics .........................................................................

 

 

153

 

Service desk metrics..........................................................................

 

 

153

 

Chapter 13: Desktop and Device Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

155

 

Clients, Clients Everywhere . . . .................................................................

 

 

156

 

Dividing Client Management into Five Process Areas ............................

158

 

Asset management.............................................................................

 

 

159

 

Service monitoring.............................................................................

 

 

159

 

Change management .........................................................................

 

 

160

 

Security ...............................................................................................

 

 

161

 

Integration/automation .....................................................................

 

 

162

 

Moving the Desktop into the Data Center ................................................

163

 

Session-based computing .................................................................

 

 

164

 

Operating-system streaming ............................................................

 

 

164

 

True client virtualization ..................................................................

 

 

165

 

The PC blade ......................................................................................

 

 

165

 

Meeting Service Expectations in Client Environments...........................

166

 

Chapter 14: Data Management in a Service Management World . . .

169

 

Creating a Data Management Strategy......................................................

 

 

170

 

Reviewing the Elements of Data Management.........................................

171

 

Typing your data for delivery ..........................................................

 

 

171

 

Getting at data: Storage and retrieval .............................................

172

 

Securing data: Backup and recovery...............................................

174

 

Preparing for the worst: Disaster management .............................

176

 

Storing data long-term: Archiving....................................................

 

 

177

 

Chapter 15: Virtualizing the Computing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . .

179

 

Understanding Virtualization.....................................................................

 

 

179

 

Using a hypervisor in virtualization ................................................

182

 

Abstracting hardware assets............................................................

 

 

182

 

Managing Virtualization..............................................................................

 

 

183

 

Foundational issues...........................................................................

 

 

183

 

Abstraction layer ...............................................................................

 

 

184

 

Provisioning software........................................................................

 

 

185

 

Virtualizing storage ...........................................................................

 

 

186

 

Hardware provisioning......................................................................

 

 

186

 

Security issues ...................................................................................

 

 

187

 

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Taking Virtualization into the Cloud.........................................................

188

Defining cloud computing.................................................................

189

Using the cloud as utility computing ..............................................

190

Veiling virtualization technology from the end user.....................

191

Chapter 16: IT Security and Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .193

Understanding the Universe of Security Risks ........................................

194

Inside and outside threats ................................................................

194

Types of attacks on IT assets ...........................................................

195

Taking a Structured Approach to IT Security ..........................................

197

Implementing Identity Management .........................................................

198

Benefits of identity management .....................................................

198

Aspects of identity management .....................................................

199

Employing Detection and Forensics..........................................................

201

Activity logs........................................................................................

201

HIPS and NIPS .....................................................................................

202

Data audit............................................................................................

203

Encrypting Data ...........................................................................................

203

Creating an IT Security Strategy ................................................................

204

Chapter 17: Business Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .207

Defining Business Service Management ...................................................

208

Using Key Performance Indicators in Risk Management........................

208

Putting Service Levels in Context..............................................................

209

Business service levels .....................................................................

210

IT service levels .................................................................................

210

Seeing Business Service Management As a Balancing Act.....................

213

Chapter 18: Planning the Evolution of the Data Center . . . . . . . . . .

. .215

Approaching Service Management the Google Way ...............................

216

Corporate and IT Strategizing, and Data Center Planning .....................

217

Project portfolio management .........................................................

218

Technology evaluation......................................................................

221

Governance and compliance............................................................

222

Business service management .........................................................

222

Drawing an Evolutionary Road Map for the Data Center .......................

223

Start Developing Your Service Strategy Now!..........................................

223

Part V: Real Life with Service Management................

225

Chapter 19: Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .227

Elbit Systems of America............................................................................

228

Implementing a service desk............................................................

228

Streamlining business processes.....................................................

229

Creating a service catalog.................................................................

229

 

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Implementing a CMDB.......................................................................

230

 

Employing virtualization...................................................................

231

 

Establishing best practices...............................................................

231

 

Cisco..............................................................................................................

232

 

Using the multilayer service catalog ...............................................

232

 

Enhancing the CMDB.........................................................................

233

 

Changing to a customer-experience mindset.................................

235

 

Varian Medical Systems..............................................................................

235

 

Defining the challenges of the industry ..........................................

236

 

Implementing a remote-access solution .........................................

236

 

Creating a rotating service desk ......................................................

237

 

Measuring the impact of service management ..............................

238

 

Chapter 20: Health Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

239

 

The Medical Center of Central Georgia ....................................................

240

 

Revamping the Technical Support Center......................................

240

 

Automating processes.......................................................................

241

 

Establishing best practices...............................................................

242

 

Independence Blue Cross...........................................................................

242

 

Putting transparency back into the process ..................................

243

 

Getting proactive for the business: The OCC.................................

244

 

Identifying best practices .................................................................

245

 

Sisters of Mercy Health System .................................................................

246

 

Seeing the need for improved service management .....................

246

 

Prescribing a service management solution ..................................

247

 

Providing a service management makeover ..................................

248

 

Achieving a healthy prognosis.........................................................

249

 

Partners HealthCare...................................................................................

250

 

Monitoring services...........................................................................

250

 

Planning capacity needs ...................................................................

251

 

Identifying team roles........................................................................

252

 

Chapter 21: Retail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

253

 

Virgin Entertainment Group.......................................................................

253

 

(Store) room for improvement ........................................................

254

 

The circle game..................................................................................

254

 

Monitor the infrastructure; think about the business ..................

255

 

Don’t light my fire ..............................................................................

256

 

Chapter 22: Hospitality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

257

 

InterContinental Hotels Group...................................................................

258

 

Creating a center of excellence........................................................

258

 

Meeting service levels .......................................................................

260

 

Finding a balance ...............................................................................

261

 

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Chapter 23: Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Commission scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke..................................

263

Organizing to succeed.......................................................................

264

Deploying the strategy ......................................................................

264

Changing the way things are done ..................................................

265

Establishing best practices...............................................................

266

Chapter 24: Service Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .267

CIBER.............................................................................................................

267

Service management solutions: Then and now .............................

268

Service-level agreements: Business versus technical ...................

269

Lessons learned and best practices ................................................

271

Part VI: The Part of Tens...........................................

273

Chapter 25: Ten Service Management Dos and Don’ts . . . . . . . . . .

. .275

Do Remember Business Objectives ..........................................................

275

Don’t Stop Optimizing after a Single Process ..........................................

276

Do Remember Business Processes ...........................................................

276

Do Plan for Cultural Change.......................................................................

276

Don’t Neglect Governance..........................................................................

276

Do Keep Security in Mind ...........................................................................

277

Don’t Try to Manage Services without

 

Standardization and Automation...........................................................

277

Do Remember Industry Standards and Best Practices...........................

277

Do Start with a Visible Project...................................................................

278

Don’t Postpone Service Management .......................................................

278

Chapter 26: Ten Swell Service Management Resources . . . . . . . .

. .279

Hurwitz & Associates ..................................................................................

279

ITIL.................................................................................................................

280

ITIL Central...................................................................................................

280

ISO .................................................................................................................

280

ISACA and COBIT.........................................................................................

280

eSCM..............................................................................................................

281

CMMI .............................................................................................................

281

eTOM.............................................................................................................

281

TechTarget ...................................................................................................

282

Vendor Sites .................................................................................................

282

Glossary ..................................................................

283

Index .......................................................................

297

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