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Breaking Free from ITILโ€™s Limitations and Costs

Embracing a Sustainable Service Management Approach For decades now, countless organizations have invested heavily in ITILโ€™s practice-based approach to service management. While ITIL initially promised improved efficiency and structure, it has often le

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Moving up the USM Value Maturity model

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. One of these live questions in that webinar was: “๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ

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Product, service, or goods?

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0LQe5w3BY) on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. I’ll now answer Live Question 1 from that webinar.

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Can we explore what the user, customer, and provider control and seek from the service agreement?

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. Let’s now answer Live Question 6 from that webinar. “๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ, ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ, ๐š๐ง๐

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If everyone in an organization serves others to deliver value, does that make everyone a ‘service manager’?

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. Let’s now answer Live Question 7 from that webinar: “๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ

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Is a ‘self service’ really creating value for the customer or only for the provider?

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. Let’s now answer Live Question 5 from that webinar. “๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐š “๐’๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž” ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž ๐Ÿ

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Anything qwrong with the ITIL4 definition of ‘service’?

In the second webinar of “The USM Revolution” series (https://lnkd.in/gfXbYCdU), we received more live questions than we could handle online. Let’s now answer Live Question 4 from that webinar. “๐€๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐‹๐Ÿ’ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ‘๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž’?” T

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Can you use FitSM process examples to clarify the USM consept of ‘service’?

In the second webinar of “๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’๐Œ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง” series (https://lnkd.in/gfXbYCdU) on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. Live Question 3 from that webinar was: “๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐…๐ข๐ญ๐’๐Œ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฑ๐š

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With so many XAAS ‘offerings’ out there, am I right to assume that you would mostly consdider any of that a service as per your definition?

In the second webinar of “๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’๐Œ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง” series (https://lnkd.in/gfXbYCdU) on the Unified Service Management method, we received more live questions than we could handle online. Live Question 2 from that webinar was: “๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐—๐š๐š๐’ โ€œ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌโ€

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