In ITIL V3, the service provider is often referred to and understood as an IT service provider (ISP). ISPs are dedicated service providers and often integrated into an individual business unit. The business units themselves can be part of a larger company or a parent organization. Business functions, such as finance, administration, logistics, human resources and IT, provide the services required by various parts of the business.
They are financed from overhead costs and are required to operate strictly within the company's mandates. Instead, the services of such shared functions are consolidated into a special autonomous unit called a shared services unit (SSU). The model allows for a more decentralized governance structure, under which SSUs can focus on serving business units as direct customers. SSUs can create, grow and maintain an internal market for their services and model themselves along the lines of service providers in the open market. Like corporate business functions, they can take advantage of opportunities across the enterprise and spread their costs and risks on a broader basis. Unlike corporate business functions, they have fewer protections under the banner of strategic value and core competence.
They are subject to comparisons with external service providers whose business practices, operating models and strategies should emulate and whose performance should approximate, if not exceed. Type II customers are business units under a corporate matrix, common stakeholders, and an enterprise-level strategy. What may be suboptimal for a particular business unit can be justified by the advantages gained at the corporate level for which the business unit can be compensated. Type II can offer lower prices compared to external service providers by leveraging corporate advantage, internal autonomy to function as a business unit. Type II providers can make decisions outside of policy constraints at the business unit level. They can standardize their service offerings across business units and use market-based pricing to influence demand patterns.
A successful Type II service provider may find themselves in a position where they can provide their services both externally and internally. In these cases, they are providers of Type II and Type III services. ESPs can offer competitive pricing and reduce unit costs by consolidating demand. Internal service providers, such as Type I and Type II, do not adequately address certain business strategies. Customers can look for sourcing strategies that require services from external suppliers. The ESP experience is often not limited to any company or market.
The breadth and depth of that experience is often the most distinctive source of value for customers. The breadth comes from serving multiple types of customers or markets. Depth comes from serving multiples of the same type. At ITIL, the service is the definitive center of focus in all aspects of service management. A service is defined as a means to enable the joint creation of value by facilitating the results that customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks.
The services provided by an organization are based on one or more of its products. When analyzing internal organization, external service providers are similar to type II providers, but for several (external) companies. They provide generic services, so companies that use them need to find their own way to align those services with business needs. The service relationship refers to the model of commitment that the service provider and the customer will have with each other to co-create value. An organization should always strive & to do more than simply provide a service. There needs to be a collective effort and cooperation to create service value. Service, in this context, refers to the art and science of providing a great customer experience with the provider.
There's a lot of good work going on around customer service. Organizations such as the Help Desk Institute have provided leadership in excellent customer service for decades. The very purpose of the ITIL Framework is to improve the experience and services customers receive from their service providers. Whether you get an ITIL certification or just start considering your work through an ITIL lens, you'll see the benefits. IT services (as defined above) allow them to take full advantage of technology, but without taking responsibility for the costs and risks of directly managing IT resources and capabilities. Corporate business functions represent the greatest competition for Type I service providers, as they already provide common (shared) services for multiple business units, at only a fraction of the cost.
Consequently, the consumer of the bank's services is also a stakeholder of the RIM service provider, in the context of ensuring the performance of the service components monitored by them, since the failure of an IT component directly impacts the bank's consumer, leading to customer dissatisfaction. Now, as we look at the value created by “Remote IT Infrastructure Management”, let's understand the “WHY” of this service. In this environment, all decisions related to the services provided by Type I service providers are in the hands of business unit managers. Service management is a framework of capabilities that encompasses all areas, functions, and aspects of IT service delivery, including strategy, design, transition, operations, and continuous improvement. Customer will perceive the value of the service while using it based on service experiences. This emphasizes the point that creating customer value is a co-creation with active participation from Service professionals from both sides -the service provider organization and Bank Service professionals. However, by using external providers' services companies have more options to find one that best suits their target business service.
Each of these services is managed as a Service and combined with other services to deliver desired business services described above. A service offering is a description of one or more services designed to address needs of target consumer group. They are services that directly support more than one business process managed by an internal customer. In ITIL, service portfolio is primary repository for all organization's services information. In addition there...
