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ITIL 4 Foundations
Key Concepts and Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service Management | A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value to customers in the form of services. |
| Value | The perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something. |
| Customer | Person who defines requirements for services. |
| User | Person who uses the service on a daily basis. |
| Sponsor | Person who authorizes the budgets for services. |
| Supplier | Person/entity who provides services to the organization. |
| Organization | A group of people that has its own functions, responsibilities, and authorities to achieve specific objectives. |
| Service | The means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks. |
| Product | A configuration of resources, created by the organization, that will be potentially valuable to customers. |
| Service Offering | A specific mix of services and products sold to a specific customer. |
| Three types of service offerings | Goods, access to resources, and service actions |
| Goods | Ownership is transferred to the customer. |
| Access to Resources | Customer is allowed to use it, but organization still owns it. |
| Service Actions | Things the service provider does for the customer. |
| Output | Tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity. |
| Outcome | Result for a stakeholder enabled by one or more outputs. |
| Cost | Can be removed from or imposed on the customer. |
| Value Proposition | Cost is removed from the customer. |
| Service Consumption | Cost is imposed on the customer. |
| Risk | Uncertainty of outcome. |
| Opportunity | A positive risk. |
| Hazard | A negative risk. |
| Utility | Fit for purpose; service does what it's meant to do. |
| Warranty | Fit for use; service does this good enough. |
| Warranty Categories | Availability, capacity, continuity, and security. |
| Value Formula | Value = Utility + Warranty (+ Perception) |