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Service Level Management

This course is delivered in partnership with Propoint Solutions.

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This course is filled with practical guidance to help the support centers focus on the importance of meeting customer expectations through service level management. Participants will learn how to successfully implement ITIL best practice methodologies for service level management.

This high-energy workshop is filled with practical guidance, templates, quick wins, and tips for successfully implementing ITIL best-practice methodologies for service level management.

What You Will Learn

  • How to identify your customers and determine their needs
  • The critical process for defining and pricing your IT services
  • The importance of underpinning contracts, operational level agreements, and service level agreements
  • Key performance indicators based on your customer’s needs
  • Conduct SLM performance reviews
  • Develop a service improvement plan

Who Should Attend?

  • Managers, Process Owners, Business Relationship Managers, and Stakeholders who need to gain a thorough understanding of how to deploy and/or assess and improve the Service Level Management and Service Catalog processes in their organizations

Course Outline

Unit 1: Service Level Management Overview

  • What is SLM
  • SLM in ITIL v3
  • Key Roles and Responsibilities

Unit 2: Identify Your Customers

  • Who Are Your IT Customers
  • What Is a Service
  • The IT Service Lifecycle
  • What Services Are You Providing to Your IT Customers

Unit 3: Determine What Your Customers Need

  • Service Level Requirements
  • The Business Relationship Manager
  • What to Expect from Your First Customer Meetings
  • Internal and External Specifications
  • The Service Quality Plan

Unit 4: Develop Underpinning Contracts

  • What to Include
  • The Supplier Management Process
  • Penalties vs. Partnerships

Unit 5: Develop Operational Level Agreements

  • What to Include
  • Sample OLA
  • Rules vs. relationships

Unit 6: Develop Service Level Agreements

  • Underpinned by UCs and OLAs
  • Sample SLA
  • Partnerships Are Based on Trust

Unit 7: Price Your IT Services

  • Price Your IT Services
  • IT Service Cost Elements
  • Cost Types
  • Charging for Your IT Services

Unit 8: Build Your Service Catalog

  • Service Catalog Examples
  • Actionable Service Catalog

Unit 9: Monitoring and Reporting IT Performance

  • Measuring Services vs. Technology
  • Reporting Service Level Performance
  • Critical Success Factors and KPIs for SLM

Unit 10: Develop the Service Improvement Plan

  • Continuous Improvement
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Virtual Classroom

Member Price: $545 | Price: $595

These scheduled courses provide students with live, instructor-led training delivered by HDI faculty. Using web conferencing software and an audio bridge, students interact with the instructor without ever leaving their desk.

  • Minimize the impact on your daily schedule by only training two hours a day for three days.
  • Learn only what you need to with targeted, topic-specific courses.
  • Ask questions and interact with the instructor.
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Public Classroom

Member Price: $595 | Price: $645

Facilitated by a faculty member, this one-day, public course allows students to actively participate in exercises and discussions as well as network with peers from other companies.

  • Maintain adequate coverage in your support center by staggering training dates.
  • Focus on learning by being out of the office.
  • Structured discussions facilitate networking and learning from real-world experiences.
  • To learn more about public classroom training, contact an account manager or call 1.800.248.5667.

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Onsite

HDI can train your team at your facility, eliminating individual travel costs and putting more control in your hands.

  • Control class size and pick training dates that accommodate your business schedule.
  • Focus on your organization’s key issues and pain points.
  • Save money. With groups of eight or more, this option is often more cost effective.
  • To learn more about this program, contact an account manager or call 1.800.248.5667.
Date Location Course Member
Price 		Price
8/13 - 8/15/13 HDI , Virtual Classroom Service Level Management $495 $545 Show class details
Price shown above includes a $50 Early Bird discount that will expire on July 03, 2013.
 

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Date: 6/7 - 6/9/11

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