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The continual improvement practice identifies, prioritizes, and justifies improvement initiatives, including developing business cases for improvement action. Identifying incident causes is part of problem management, authorizing changes is part of change enablement, and logging and managing incidents is part of incident management.

The ITIL 4 guiding principle Think and work holistically promotes considering a system as a whole, including the relationships and dependencies among its elements. This enables an organization to assess the effects that altering one element may have on others.

The current-state step of the ITIL continual improvement model requires an assessment that establishes a baseline of the organization’s existing state. Assessment results provide that baseline for subsequent improvement work.

The continual improvement practice aligns services and practices with changing business needs through ongoing improvement. Its activities include prioritizing improvement opportunities and developing business cases for improvement initiatives.

The continual improvement model helps organizations align and link improvement initiatives with their organizational goals, beginning with the vision and progressing through assessment, planning, action, evaluation, and sustaining momentum.

The “progress iteratively with feedback” guiding principle promotes completing work in small, manageable increments, enabling regular feedback and adjustment before proceeding further.

Low-impact incidents should be handled efficiently so they consume fewer resources, allowing incident management to focus appropriate effort on incidents with greater business impact and urgency. Incident records are still needed, and prioritization is not based on lowest impact first. PeopleCert describes incident management as restoring service efficiently and restoring normal operation as quickly as possible.

The partners and suppliers dimension covers managing relationships with external organizations, including suppliers and service integrators. Working with an integrator to manage relationships falls within this dimension.

Each service value chain activity uses a different combination of practices to transform inputs into outputs. The service value chain transforms demand and opportunity into value.

Release management makes new and changed services and features available for use. Deployment management, rather than release management, moves hardware and software to live environments.

A service action is an activity performed for a consumer as part of delivering a service. Providing user support is work carried out by a service desk agent.

A successful SLA uses bundled metrics that connect service performance to customer outcomes. Combining relevant measures gives a meaningful assessment of the end-to-end service and the value it delivers, rather than relying on isolated system, output, or catalogue-related metrics.

A baseline assessment determines the current state and establishes the baseline against which improvement impact can be measured.

Service provision is the set of activities an organization performs to deliver services.

The optimize and automate guiding principle calls for optimizing work before automating it and using automation for suitable, standardized activities. This reduces manual effort and frees people to perform more complex work that requires human judgment.

The ITIL 4 information and technology dimension includes the information and knowledge required to manage services, such as knowledge bases, as well as the technologies that support service management.

Complex or major incidents often affect multiple services or require specialist expertise across several teams. A temporary, coordinated team enables the organization to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimize the incident’s impact.

Service level management establishes clear, business-based targets for service performance, enabling service delivery to be assessed, monitored, and managed against those targets.

A service desk provides the single point of contact between a service provider and its users, handling communications, incidents, and service requests.

In ITIL 4, a service facilitates the outcomes that customers want to achieve while relieving them of responsibility for managing specific costs and risks.

Service request management handles predefined, user-initiated requests for service, such as requests for access, information, or standard services.

A service enables customers to achieve the outcomes they want without requiring them to manage the associated specific costs and risks.

ITIL problem management proceeds through problem identification, then problem control, and finally error control. Identification detects and logs the underlying issue; problem control investigates it and establishes workarounds or known errors; error control manages the permanent correction.

The ITIL 4 service value system takes opportunity and demand as inputs and enables the co-creation of value as its output. Products are managed and delivered through the system, not inputs to the service value system.