ITIL 2011 Continual Service Improvement (1 Year Online Subscription)

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Online access to the latest ITIL^® 2011 Continual Service Improvement guidance

ITIL^® provides guidance on the provision of quality IT services, and on the processes needed to support them. The purpose of the CSI stage of the lifecycle is to align IT services with changing business needs by identifying and implementing improvements to IT services that support business processes.

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ITIL^® 2011 Continual Service Improvement provides guidance in four main areas:

• The overall health of ITSM as a discipline
• The continual alignment of the service portfolio with the current and future business needs
• The maturity and capability of the organisation, management, processes and people utilised by the services
• Continual improvement of all assets that support them.

Summary of updates

The concepts in ITIL^® 2011 have been updated for clarity and consistency, without affecting the overall message, ensuring every stage of the service lifecycle remains focused on the business case, and relates to all the companion process elements that follow. ITIL^® 2011 is fully aligned with MSP^®, M_o_R^®, PRINCE2^® and P3O^®.

• The seven-step improvement process and its relationship with the Deming Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and knowledge management has been clarified.
• The CSI model has been renamed the CSI approach and the concept of a CSI register has been introduced as a place to record details of all improvement initiatives within an organisation.
• Minor changes have been made throughout the book to clarify the meaning and to improve readability.
• Particular emphasis has been made on documenting the interfaces from CSI to other lifecycle stages.

It is recommended that ITIL^® 2011 Continual Service Improvement is used in conjunction with the other core ITIL^® publications.

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This publication is also available in various different formats. Multiuser access is also available, or you can purchase all the core ITIL^® books as an online subscription in the ITIL^® Lifecycle Publication Suite.

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