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Lesson 4 - ITIL SVS
Lesson 4 - ITIL SVS
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The ITIL Service Value System
Learning Objectives
The ITIL service value system (SVS) describes how all the components and activities of
the organization work together as a system to enable value creation.
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ITIL Service Value System (SVS)
SVS ensures that the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders
through the use of products and services.
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ITIL Service Value System (SVS)
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ITIL Service Value System (SVS)
The SVS can enable the creation of different types of value for a wide group of stakeholders
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Opportunity, Demand, and Value
Opportunity and demand trigger activities within the ITIL SVS that lead to value creation.
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Components of SVS
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Siloed Organizations
● Resistance to change
Organizational ● Difficulty in accessing information and specialized
silos occur when expertise
there is: ● Reduced efficiency that increases both cost and risk
● Difficulty in communication or collaboration
The ITIL SVS has been specifically designed to enable flexibility and discourage siloed working.
The ITIL SVS
The ITIL SVS supports many work approaches with a flexible value-oriented operating model.
The ITIL Guiding Principles
The ITIL Guiding Principles
The organization should create value for itself, its customers, and other stakeholders.
01
Know how service consumers
use each service.
02
Encourage a focus on value
among all staff.
03
Focus on value during operational
activities and improvement
04 initiatives.
Focus on the value in every step
of the improvement initiative.
Start Where You Are
Measurement should be used to support the analysis of what has been observed.
Recognize that
sometimes
nothing from the
current state can
be reused.
A service desk that focuses on time taken to resolve incidents shall mainly focus on minimizing
the negative impact to the customer instead of just resolving.
Organize work into small, manageable sections to execute them in a timely manner.
A feedback loop is a situation where part of the output is used for a new input.
Working in a timeboxed, iterative manner with feedback loops ensures greater flexibility, faster
responses, and an overall improvement in quality.
Applying the Principle: Progress Iteratively with Feedback
Right people in the right role ensures more buy-in, more relevance and increased likelihood of long-
term success.
Poor visibility of work affects decision-making and impacts the organization’s ability to
improve internal capabilities.
01
A holistic approach to service management requires an understanding of how all the parts of an
organization work together.
Demand Value
It requires an end-to-end visibility of how demand is captured and translated into outcomes.
Applying the Principle: Think and Work Holistically
02
Ensure the optimization has the Agree to what the future state and
appropriate level of stakeholder priorities of the organization should
engagement and commitment. be.
Automation is the use of technology to perform a step or series of steps correctly and consistently
with limited or no human intervention.
• Automating frequent and repetitive tasks helps organizations scale up and allows
human resources to be used for complex decision-making.
• The simplest form of automation involves standardizing and streamlining manual
tasks to allow decisions to be made automatically.
Applying the Principle: Optimize and Automate
Progress Keep it
iteratively with simple and
feedback practical
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Governance
The governing body The governing body assigns The governing body
evaluates the organization responsibility for, and monitors the
on a regular basis as directs the preparation and performance of the
stakeholders’ needs and implementation of, organization and its
external circumstances organizational strategy and practices, products, and
evolve. policies. services.
SVS Governance
b. It ensures that the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders.
c. It typically addresses areas such as availability, capacity, security levels, and continuity.
b. It ensures that the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders.
c. It typically addresses areas such as availability, capacity, security levels, and continuity.
SVS ensures that the organization continually co-creates value with all stakeholders through the use and
management of products and services.
Knowledge
Check
What is a guiding principle?
2
a. It is a process.
a. It is a process.
a. Focus of value
d.
All of the options
Knowledge
Check
Which of the following is a guiding principle?
3
a. Focus of value
d.
All of the options
There are seven guiding principles. Focus of value, start where you are, and think and work holistically are
a few of them.