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  • Abstract Process

    An Abstract Process represents interactions between a private business process and another process or participant.

  • Abstraction

    Abstraction is a technique for producing a high-level summarization or generalization of more complex or detailed topics or content.

  • Activity

    An Activity is work performed by an organization using business processes. An activity can be atomic or non-atomic (compound). Types of activities used within Process Models include Process, Sub-Process, and Task.

  • Activity Cost Worksheet

    Activity Cost Worksheets are a matrix that are used to analyze various costs of a set of activities.

  • Actor

    An Actor is a normally used to define a physical or quasi-physical entity, such as a person, organization, or system.

  • Ad Hoc Workflow System

    An Ad Hoc Workflow System is a type of workflow system that waits on users to indicate what should happen next.

Quick Reference Guide ITIL Continual Service Improvement

May 6, 2016, 00:00 AM by David Jones
This guide will take you through the vital aspects of the Continual Service Improvement stage of the ITIL Lifecycle, with tips to help you implement it in your daily practice.

ITIL is the well-known set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. Figure 1 provides a high level overview of the complete ITIL service lifecycle. This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is the 5th and last in our series of Quick Reference Guides for ITIL and covers the Continual Service Improvement lifecycle phase of ITIL.

So far, we have learned some of the key concepts of ITIL Service Management, Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition and Service Operation. Continual Service Improvement (CSI) focuses on increasing the efficiency, maximizing the effectiveness and optimizing the cost of IT services and the underlying processes. These objectives are achieved by identifying improvement opportunities throughout the service lifecycle.

This Quick Reference Guide provides a summary of the Continual Service Improvement lifecycle for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, more commonly ITIL. The information contained is derived from the Axelos ITIL Foundation Handbook and supplemented from the ITIL Service Strategy Lifecycle publication. The document is based on ITIL 2011.