From the course: IT Service Desk: Service Management

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What is a service?

What is a service?

From the course: IT Service Desk: Service Management

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What is a service?

- The foundation for delivering value to your customers begins with understanding their needs. This allows collaboration with them to achieve their goals. Service management builds a framework for your organization that you can use to identify and then deliver the required services, thus value from these services is co-created by the service provider and the service consumers. Organizations need to define services in a manner that customers and users will understand so that the outcomes customers expect are consistently delivered at a cost that the organization can afford. Defining services is similar in purpose to a restaurant menu. To be effective, it must list what can be purchased and how much each line item costs. The same applies for services. What exactly is a service? ITIL 4 defines a service as a means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating the outcomes that customers want to achieve, without the…

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