A newly appointed service owner finds that different departments have contradictory views of where the organization's services stand today and where they are heading. Which service value chain activity is intended to resolve this?
ITIL 4 Foundation, objective 5. The service value chain medium
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The options
Not correct Design and transition
Design and transition ensures products and services continually meet expectations for quality, costs and time to market. It delivers against direction rather than setting the shared understanding of it.
Not correct Improve
Improve exists to ensure continual improvement of products, services and practices across all value chain activities. It acts on things once direction is understood; establishing the shared view of vision and current status is plan.
Not correct Engage
Engage provides a good understanding of stakeholder needs and maintains relationships and transparency with stakeholders. The problem here is internal alignment on vision and status, which plan owns.
Correct Plan
Correct. The purpose of plan is to ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status and improvement direction for all four dimensions and all products and services across the organization.
Why
Plan is the value chain activity whose stated purpose is a shared understanding of vision, current status and improvement direction, spanning all four dimensions and all products and services. The commonly confused neighbour, improve, is about continually improving products, services and practices — a different job that presumes direction already exists.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- ITIL 4 syllabus clause 5.2
- What it says
- The purpose of plan is to ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status and improvement direction for all four dimensions and all products and services.
Practise this
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