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KEY ACTIVITIESService catalogue designThe service catalogue, a key part of the service portfolio, is a central source of information about the services delivered or about to be delivered by the IT service provider.The service catalogue is a subset of the service portfolio, the contents of which are described in Chapter 10. However, because it is customer facing, the service catalogue must include information that is important and of direct interest to the customer. This will include information such as:• details of service and product offerings;• availability;• support services;• support arrangements;• key policies;• terms and conditions;• service level agreements;• charges and prices;• ordering and cancellation;• key future plans (e.g. where there are existing plans to phase out, replace or change a service).The service catalogue as a whole serves two purposes. First, it provides information on services to the customers of the IT service provider in a way that enables the customer to understand and make decisions about the services it uses or might wish to use. Second, it is a primary source of information for the IT service provider on the services it offers to its customers.In many organisations, this dual purpose is reflected in the structure of theservice catalogue, which is divided into two main parts: a business servicecatalogue, which describes services in terms that are helpful and useful to the business, and a technical service catalogue, which describes services in terms that are useful and helpful to the IT side.Leading practice is for the source information about customer services, supporting services and the relationships to business processes and IT components to be held in a single location as part of the configuration management system. The service catalogue can then be presented to readers in one of a number of ‘views’ according to their perspective. Two such views are usually referred to as the ‘business’ or ‘customer’ service catalogue view and the ‘technical’ or ‘supporting’ service catalogue view. For the remainder of this chapter, these two views will be referred to as the ‘business service catalogue’ and the ‘technical servicecatalogue’.
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