We think we know services — not a day goes by without using them — until we have to design them. It is then that their realities confront us, teasing us sometimes. While services have always been ‘designed’, the qualities of their designs are more important than ever, given how much more we depend on them. Thus the need for deepening our understanding of what services are, what they can be, and why they fail — often in unexpected ways. This book reveals the surprising design of serv...

IT Service Management (ITSM) quality is one of the most important requirements to provide valuable services that add value to the business. The ISO/IEC 20000 standard for the IT Service Management has been able to join together the principles of ISO quality management and the standard ITSM processes in the market.

The purpose of this book is to help in the preparation of EXIN ITSM Foundation based on ISO/IEC 20000 exam, providing an overview of IT Service Management from the perspective of ISO...

On a daily basis, millions of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are generated to provide guidance, feedback and direction. Decisions, big and small, find their origin in KPIs. Performance Measurement has become a well established management area and it is hard to imagine that not so long ago we were able to manage our progress with just a few financial metrics. How different it is in today's day and age. From people to systems and from individuals to organisations, there is little we don't me...

Organizations become more agile and teams more self-organizing. Insight into yourself and others is therefore more important than ever. The Enneagram is a proven model that describes nine personality types. It offers tools with which you can communicate more effectively, manage more consciously and achieve better results with teams.

The Enneagram theory clarifies which of the nine types applies to you the most. Each type uses a specific strategy as a means to success, but each approach also e...

Digital disruption is the biggest challenge that businesses are facing today. But where there is risk, there is opportunity. New technologies allow you to think big. At the same time, you need to think practical. Make Disruption Work shows you what digital disruption entails and how to ride the wave. The book is focused on evidence, not opinion, and offers real-world examples of companies that underwent digital disruption and how they now bank extremely healthy digital sales. Disruption need ...

This pocket guide will introduce you to VeriSM key concepts and the VeriSM model and help you to understand how they can apply in your organization.

VeriSM is an approach that offers value-driven, evolving, responsive, and integrated service management. VeriSM is designed to enable organizations and professionals understand how to create a flexible operating model using Governance, Service Management Principles and a Management Mesh to define, produce, provide and respond to consumer require...