Skill description
Agreeing targets for service levels and assessing, monitoring and managing the delivery of services against the targets.
Guidance notes
Activities may include, but are not limited to:
- planning, implementation, control, review and audit of service provision, to meet customer business requirements.
- developing and managing both formal Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and less formal service expectations, depending on organisational needs and practices.
- negotiating, implementing and monitoring service level agreements or service expectations.
- managing operational facilities to provide the agreed levels of service.
- identifying opportunities to improve service delivery.
- implementing service level management practices to support cloud-based services.
- identifying future trends and their impact on service delivery, for example, technical, market, industrial, socioeconomic, legislative or sustainability targets.
Level 2Assist
Monitors and logs the actual service provided.
Compares delivered service to service level agreements, identifying any deviations or areas for improvement.
Level 3Apply
Monitors service delivery performance metrics.
Liaises with stakeholders to help them plan for a deterioration in service and/or breaches of service level agreements.
Level 4Enable
Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.
Analyses service delivery performance to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service.
Initiates and reports on actions to maintain or improve levels of service.
Level 5Ensure, advise
Ensures service delivery meets agreed service levels.
Negotiates service level requirements and agreed service levels with customers.
Diagnoses service delivery problems and initiates actions to maintain or improve levels of service.
Establishes and maintains operational methods, procedures and facilities and reviews them regularly for effectiveness and efficiency.
Level 6Initiate, influence
Ensures service delivery is monitored effectively and that identified actions to maintain or improve levels of service are implemented.
Ensures service level agreements are complete and cost-effective across the catalogue of available services.
Ensures operational methods, procedures, facilities and tools are established, reviewed and maintained.
Prepares proposals to meet forecast changes in the levels or types of services.
Reviews service delivery to ensure agreed targets are met.
Negotiates with relevant parties in respect of disruptions and major amendments to the provision of services.
Level 7Set strategy, inspire, mobilise
Sets strategies for service delivery that support the strategic needs of the client organisation.
Authorises allocation of resources for monitoring service delivery arrangements.
Develops relationships with customers at the highest level to identify potential areas of mutual commercial interest for future development.
Maintains an overview of the contribution of service delivery arrangements to organisational success.
Provides leadership within the industry on the identification of future trends.
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