BS ISO/IEC 20000-2:2005 Information technology. Service management. Code of practice
BS ISO/IEC 20000-2 represents an industry consensus on guidance to auditors, and offers assistance to service providers planning service improvements or to be audited against BS ISO/IEC 20000-1.
Organizations require increasingly advanced facilities (at minimum cost) to meet their business needs. With the increasing dependency on support services and the diverse range of technologies available, service providers can struggle to maintain high levels of customer service. Working reactively, they spend too little time planning, training, reviewing, investigating, and working with customers.
The result is a failure to adopt structured, proactive working practices. Those same service providers are being asked for improved quality, lower costs, greater flexibility, and faster response to customers.
In contrast, effective service management delivers high levels of customer service and customer satisfaction. It also recognizes that services and service management are essential to helping organizations generate revenue and be cost-effective. The BS ISO/IEC 20000 series enables service providers to understand how to enhance the quality of service delivered to their customers, both internal and external.
The BS ISO/IEC 20000 series draws a distinction between the best practices of processes, which are independent of organizational form or size and organizational names and structures. The series applies to both large and small service providers, and the requirements for best practice service management processes are independent of the service provider's organizational form. These service management processes deliver the best possible service to meet a customer’s business needs within agreed resource levels, i.e. service that is professional, cost effective and with risks which are understood and managed.
The variety of terms used for the same process, and between processes and functional groups (and job titles) can make the subject of service management confusing to the new manager. Understanding the terminology is a tangible and significant benefit from BS ISO/IEC 20000.
Contents of BS ISO IEC 20000-2 include:
- Scope
- Terms and definitions
- The management system
- Planning and implementing service management
- Planning and implementing new or changed services
- Service delivery processes
- Relationship processes
- Resolution processes
- Control processes
- Release process
- Bibliography
This part of BS ISO/IEC 20000 is based on BS 15000-2, which has now been withdrawn.
