The course will help students to understand:

• Understand how to plan and build a service value stream to create, deliver and support services
• Know how relevant ITIL® 4 practices contribute to creation, delivery and support across the SVS and value streams
• Know how to create, deliver and support services
• Preparation to sit the ITIL® 4 Create, Deliver, Support examination
• Understand the role of governance, risk and compliance and how to integrate the principles and methods into the service value system
• Understand and know how to use the key principles and methods of Organizational Change Management to direction, planning and improvement
• Preparation to sit the ITIL® 4 foundation examination

• Individuals continuing their journey in service management
• ITSM managers and aspiring ITSM managers
• ITSM practitioners managing the operation of IT-enabled & digital products and services, and those responsible for the end-to-end delivery

Required Prerequisites:

Candidates must hold the ITIL® 4 Foundation certificate.

Follow-on Courses:

• ITIL® Specialist: Drive Stakeholder Value
• ITIL® 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT
• ITIL® Strategist: Direct Plan and Improve

• Understand the concepts and challenges relating to the following across the service value system:
• Organisational structure
• Integrated/collaborative teams
• Team capabilities, roles, competencies
• Team culture and differences
• Working to a customer-orientated mindset
• Employee satisfaction management
• The value of positive communications
• Understand how to use a ''shift left'' approach
• Know how to plan and manage resources in the service value system:
• Team collaboration and integration
• Workforce planning
• Results based measuring and reporting
• The culture of continual improvement
• Understand the use and value of information and technology across the service value system:
• Integrated service management toolsets
• Integration and data sharing
• Reporting and advanced analytics
• Collaboration and workflow
• Robotic process automation (RPA)
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Continuous integration and delivery/deployment (CI/CD)
• Information models
• Know how to use a value stream to design, develop and transition new services
• Know how the following ITIL® practices contribute to a value stream for a new service:
• Service design
• Software development and Management
• Deployment management
• Release management
• Service Validation and testing
• Change Enablement
• Know how to use a value stream to provide user support
• Know how the following ITIL® practices contribute to a value stream for user support:
• Service desk
• Incident management
• Problem management
• Knowledge management
• Service level management
• Monitoring and event management
• Know how to co-ordinate, prioritize and structure work and activities to create deliver and support services, including:
• Managing queues and backlogs
• Prioritizing work
• Understand the use and value of the following across the service value system:
• Buy vs build considerations
• Sourcing options
• Service integration and management (SIAM)