Dissecting IT service management (ITSM) Model in Mid Size companies

IT service management (ITSM) Model and its effectiveness:

In today's Agile environment where clients needs and fast changing business environment keeps service delivery on top of the minds of CIO, over a period of time many frameworks have grown up as part of service delivery management which have standardized as well like ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) that guides us in delivering services with quality and efficiently which satisfy client needs and demands.

ITIL objective focuses on implementation of delivery model and how efficiently we can optimize resources to best availability to infrastructure and other services offered. ITIL encompasses as structured framework which has five elements as part of service life cycle named as Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, Continual Service Improvement. Now the question is how these elements be accommodated in day to day operational level implementation.

Above listed service life-cycle elements can be customized according to organisation needs which again energized with six sigma, and other control methods. At the more granular level it has been further categorized into several criteria which are named as in ITIL V3 like Availability Management, Problem Management, Capacity Management, Release & Deployment Management, Change Management, Request Fulfillment, Event Management, Service Asset & Configuration Management, Financial Management, Service Catalog Management, Incident Management, Service Level Management, IT Service Continuity Management, Service Portfolio Management, Knowledge Management will be used as per organization suitability metrics.

Obviously these terms looks quite abstract in nature but can be deciphered at more specific requirements at times needed but in general it provides a governance framework as part of service delivery management with effectiveness in many ways.

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