ITIL Foundation The ITIL Service Value System and Service Value Chain Syllabus

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1. 1

   Overview of the Service Value System

   3 topics

   • Purpose and components of the SVS
     • Inputs of opportunity and demand
     • Output of value
   • How the SVS components interconnect
     • Guiding principles, governance, value chain, practices, continual improvement
   • Overcoming organisational silos
     • Reducing work in silos to enable value flow
2. 2

   The Service Value Chain Model

   3 topics

   • Purpose of the service value chain
     • Operating model for creating, delivering and improving services
   • Flexibility and value stream configuration
     • Combining activities into multiple value streams
   • Inputs and outputs of the value chain
     • Interaction with practices at each activity
3. 3

   The Six Value Chain Activities

   6 topics

   • Plan
     • Shared understanding of vision, status and direction
   • Improve
     • Continual improvement of products, services and practices
   • Engage
     • Understanding stakeholder needs and maintaining relationships
   • Design and transition
     • Meeting expectations for quality, cost and time to market
   • Obtain/build
     • Ensuring components are available when needed
   • Deliver and support
     • Delivering services to agreed specifications
4. 4

   Governance in the SVS

   3 topics

   • Role of governance in directing the organisation
     • Evaluate, direct and monitor
   • Governing body and its relationship to management
     • Policies and oversight
   • Governance interaction with the value chain and practices
     • Embedding governance throughout the SVS

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1. What is the ITIL Service Value System (SVS)?

   It describes how all the components and activities of an organisation work together as a system to enable value creation. The SVS facilitates value co-creation through IT-enabled services.

2. What are the five core components of the ITIL Service Value System (SVS)?

   1) Guiding principles, 2) Governance, 3) Service value chain, 4) Practices, and 5) Continual improvement.

3. What are the inputs to the ITIL Service Value System?

   Opportunity and demand. (Opportunity = options to add value; Demand = the need/desire for products and services from stakeholders.)

4. What is the output of the ITIL Service Value System?

   Value — the realisation of benefits for the organisation and its stakeholders through the co-creation of value.

5. Define 'opportunity' as an input to the SVS.

   Opportunities represent options or possibilities to add value for stakeholders or otherwise improve the organisation.

6. Define 'demand' as an input to the SVS.

   Demand is the need or desire for products and services among internal and external consumers.

7. What is the purpose of the ITIL Service Value System?

   To ensure the organisation continually co-creates value with all stakeholders through the use and management of products and services.

8. What are the ITIL guiding principles within the SVS?

   Focus on value; Start where you are; Progress iteratively with feedback; Collaborate and promote visibility; Think and work holistically; Keep it simple and practical; Optimise and automate.

9. In the SVS, what is the role of the guiding principles?

   They provide recommendations that guide an organisation in all circumstances, regardless of changes in goals, strategies, type of work, or management structure.

10. In the SVS, what is the role of 'practices'?

    Practices are sets of organisational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective. ITIL 4 defines 34 management practices.

11. In the SVS, what is the role of 'continual improvement'?

    A recurring activity, occurring at all levels, to ensure the organisation's performance continually meets stakeholders' expectations; it is embedded throughout the SVS and value chain.

12. How do the SVS components interconnect to create value?

    Demand and opportunity feed into the service value chain; guiding principles and governance steer all activities; practices supply resources to the value chain activities; and continual improvement is applied throughout — together transforming inputs into value.

13. What is an organisational silo, and why is it a problem for the SVS?

    A silo is a team, department, or unit that operates in isolation with limited visibility or collaboration. Silos obstruct the flow of information and work, prevent holistic working, and impede value co-creation.

14. How does the SVS help overcome organisational silos?

    By providing a single, flexible, coordinated structure (governance, guiding principles, value chain, practices, continual improvement) that promotes collaboration, visibility, and holistic working across functions.

15. Which ITIL guiding principles most directly help break down silos?

    'Collaborate and promote visibility' and 'Think and work holistically' — they encourage cross-functional cooperation and viewing the organisation as a whole system.

16. What is the architecture characteristic of the SVS that combats inflexibility and silos?

    Its non-linear, flexible operating model — the value chain activities can be combined in many sequences (value streams), avoiding rigid, siloed workflows.

17. What is the ITIL Service Value Chain?

    An operating model within the SVS that outlines the key activities required to respond to demand and facilitate value realisation through the creation and management of products and services.

18. What is the purpose of the service value chain?

    To provide a flexible operating model defining the activities an organisation must perform to convert demand and opportunity into value via products and services.

19. List the six activities of the ITIL service value chain.

    1) Plan, 2) Improve, 3) Engage, 4) Design and transition, 5) Obtain/build, 6) Deliver and support.

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