nowadays a growing number of implementing informationtechnology service management (itsm) frameworks proves the trends toimprove the it services and processes in organizations. in order toimplement an itsm projects successfully in an organization, it isessential to select a suitable itsm solution. evaluation and selection ofthe itsm software packages is complicated and time consuming decisionma...

Continual Service Improvement (CSI) is part of ITIL® and its framework of best practices under IT Service Management (ITSM).1 CSI promotes the use of quality management methodologies to measure, analyze and learn from past successes and failures to improve service desk results. Its objective: the sustainment of operational excellence through continual improvement of the effectiveness and effici...

Continual improvement is central to all organizational frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Typically, data are collected through the lifecycle of a business process and analyzed asynchronously to identify long-term improvements. This position paper illustrates a limitation of this approach of continual improvement. When a support process is spawned to address a customer iss...

Audits and quality improvement projects are vital aspects of clinical governance and continual service improvement in medicine. In this article we describe the process of clinical audit and quality improvement project. Guidance is also provided on how to design an effective audit and bypass barriers encountered during the process.

The IT Service Management (ITSM) industry has defined processes as best practices in the widelyaccepted IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. However, studies on the measurement of ITSM process improvement are scant. Our research addressed the dual problems of the lack of transparency and the need for efficiency in ITSM process assessment. Using the Design Science Research methodology, we...

In order to deliver services of high quality in a cost-effective manner, processes and their support through information technology (IT) play an increasingly significant role. We present an approach, which allows optimizing the service delivery through continual process improvement. This approach combines the 7-step improvement process recommended by ITIL with process mining. On the basis of su...

Benchmarking helps in organizational gap analysis by comparing it with some predefined standard bench marks which instead allow process‘s system, capability to increase to the maximum level. Conglomerated with Ontology, it provides a source of precisely defined terms that can create a consensus of shared understanding concerning the domain of discourse pertaining to a certain domain of knowledg...