• Examining how better service operation can be created by adapting to business change
• Learn how service operation can help ensure business continuity, maintain security and customer satisfaction, and provide a useful and universal structure with which to handle incidents.
• Cover the various functions of service operation, including the different types of service desk and their responsibilities (such as logging incidents and communicating with customers), IT operations management (which details how to establish and maintain a stable IT infrastructure), and the requirements of the Application Management lifecycle.
• Implementing service operations, including managing change to service operations and minimising disruption, and assessing how to tackle challenges and risks involved in the optimisation of an ITSM ecosystem.

Introduction to Service Operation:
• Bloom’s Level 2 Objectives – Full understanding of Service Operation terms and core concepts
• The functions contained within Service Operations including how they interact to make Service Operations work
• The processes and service lifecycle phases that Service Operation interfaces with
• The fundamental aspects of Service Operation and be able to define them

Service Operation Principles:
• How Service Operation is organized in relation to Functions, Groups, Teams, Department, and divisions.
• How an organisation can achieve balance when dealing with internal verse external organisational focus, identifying the issues related to organizations who operate at the extremes of these balances
• What “Operational Health” means, specifically addressing examples of “Self-Healing Systems” and the processes used by them
• The creation components and implementation of a complete communication strategy to be used with Service Operations

Service Operation Processes:
• The use of and interaction of each of the five key processes that make up Service Operation
• The value to the business that each of the Service Operation processes contributes
• The use of and interaction with all other lifecycle operational activities that contribute to Service Operation

Common Service Operation Activities:
• The difference between a Technology-Centric and a Business-Centric organisation, the five levels of maturity and how Service Operation can be used to move towards increasing the Business Centric focus
• How the activities identified in this unit support Service Operation and provide a detailed model of how to integrate them into a Service Operation organisation

Organising Service Operation:
• The objective, activities and roles of each of the four functions identified in this unit and how to build a Service Operation model based on these functions
• Service Operation roles and responsibilities, where and how they are used as well as how a Service Operation organization would be structured to use these roles

Technology Considerations:
• The technology that supports Service Operation, where and how these can be used
• The technology required to support each of the Service Operations processes and functions: Event Management, Incident Management, Request Fulfilment, Problem Management, Access Management, and Service Desk

Implementation Considerations:
• Strategies and models for managing Change in Service Operation and how to implement this activity within an organization
• Implementing Service Operation technologies within a company
• How to assess and manage risk within a Service Operation group including the interaction that needs to occur with the Service Design and Service Transition personnel

Challenges, Critical Success Factors, and Risks:
• The challenges and risks (e.g. staff, funding, management, etc.) related to Service Operation and the details behind how each challenge can be addressed
• The Critical Success Factors (CSFs) related to Service Operation as well as a detailed model for measuring and monitoring Service Operation CSFs

*After completing 2 days of classroom training and successfully passing your Foundation Exam, the third day of this course is a flexible exam preparation day to complete at your convenience in order to prepare you to take and pass your exam online.
We provide comprehensive support during the exam process to make the experience as simple as possible. This exam can be taken at a suitable time, subject to availability; online, anywhere.

Benefits of online exams include:
• Proven higher pass rates
• Quicker Results
• Save Travel Costs
• Flexibility
• Convenient
• Take your exam at your home, office, or work when you are ready

• Individuals who require basic knowledge about the ITIL framework and how it will be executed to enhance the quality of ITSM within an organization
• IT professionals who work in organizations that have adopted and adapted ITIL and want to continue to make a contribution to an ongoing service improvement program.
• Project and Business Managers

3 Days*