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Overview

Course Overview

This course provides IT leaders, practitioners and support staff with the practical skills necessary to create a ‘learning and improving’ IT organization, with a strong and effective strategic direction. It provides practitioners with a practical and strategic method for planning and delivering continual improvement with the necessary agility. The course is based on the ITIL 4 best practice service value system featured in the latest guidelines.

In This Course You Will Learn:

  • Understand the Key Concepts of Direct, Plan & Improve
  • Understand the scope of what is to be directed and/or planned, and know how to use key principles and methods of direction and planning in that context
  • Understand the role of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and know how to integrate the principles and methods into the service value system
  • Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of continual improvement for all types of improvements
  • Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of Communication and Organizational Change Management to direction, planning and improvement
  • Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of measurement and reporting in direction, planning and improvement
  • Understand and know how to direct, plan and improve value streams and practices

Prerequisites

  • Take and complete the ITIL 4 Foundation Certification

Description

  • Understand the following key terms:
    • Direction
    • Planning
    • Improvement
    • Operating Model
    • Methods
    • Risks
    • Scope of control
  • Understand the differences between the following key concepts:
    • Vision and Mission
    • Strategy, Tactics and Operations
    • Governance compliance and management
    • Policies, Controls and Guidelines
  • Understand the concepts of Value, Outcomes, Costs & Risks and their relationships to direction, planning & improvement
  • Identify the scope of control and within this:
    • Know how to cascade goals and requirements
    • Know how to define effective policies, controls and guidelines
    • Know how to place decision-making authority at the correct level
  • Know how to ensure that controls are sufficient, but not excessive
  • Know how to use the ITIL continual improvement model to improve the service value system or any part of the SVS
  • Know how to identify assessment objectives, outputs, requirements and criteria
  • Know how to select an appropriate assessment method for a particular situation
  • Know how to define and prioritize desired outcomes of an improvement
  • Know how to build, justify and advocate for a business case
  • Know how to conduct:
    • Improvement reviews
    • Analysis of lessons learned
  • Know how to embed continual improvement at all levels of the SVS
  • Understand the nature, scope and potential benefits of organizational change management
  • Know how to use the key principles and methods of Communication & OCM
    • Identify and manage different types of stakeholders
    • Effectively communicate with and influence others
    • Establish effective feedback channels
  • Know how to establish effective interfaces across the value chain
  • Know how to define indicators and metrics to support objectives
  • Understand the differences between value streams and practices and how those differences impact direction, planning and improvement
  • Know how to select and use the appropriate methods and techniques to direct, plan and improve value streams and practices.
    • Addressing the 4 dimensions
    • Applying the guiding principles
    • Value stream mapping
    • Optimization of workflow
    • Elimination of waste
    • Ensuring & utilizing feedback