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Chapter 6 ■ Service Transition<br />

Context<br />

Wisdom<br />

Why?<br />

Knowledge<br />

How?<br />

Information<br />

Who, what,<br />

when, where?<br />

Data<br />

Understanding<br />

Figure 6-10. Data to information to knowledge to wisdom<br />

Instead of focusing on the incidents in the system, wisdom asks the question: Why<br />

are incidents getting raised in the system? By answering the question, organizations can<br />

find themselves in a good position for minimizing incidents.<br />

6.4.4.4 Service Knowledge Management System<br />

The service knowledge management system (SKMS) is the mother of all repositories.<br />

It is the superset of all other databases in the service provider organization, and these<br />

individual databases are needed to manage the lifecycle of services.<br />

Figure 6-11 depicts the hierarchy or the structural <strong>com</strong>ponents of the SKMS. It<br />

consists within itself, the configuration management system mainly. As mentioned<br />

earlier, the CMS consists of multiple configuration management databases. Apart from<br />

the illustrated databases, the SKMS also consists of:<br />

1. Policy and process documents<br />

2. Financial documents like budget and accounting<br />

3. Service portfolio<br />

4. SLRs, SLAs, OLAs, and UCs<br />

5. Business continuity and IT service continuity plans<br />

6. Service improvement plans<br />

7. Definitive media library<br />

8. Supplier and contract management information system<br />

9. Capacity and availability plans<br />

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