ITIL® Practitioner Code ITIL4-DSV

ITIL®4 Specialist - Drive Stakeholder Value

3 Days Live Instructor-Led Online
Minimum 6 months' access 12-Hours Self-Paced Study Self-Paced
Minimum 6 months' access 12-Hours Self-Paced Study Self-Paced + Extras

All stakeholders contribute to the co-creation of service value. This course guides customers and service providers through the principles and practices involved, following the main stages of the customer journey and exploring how to create the most valuable experience. It focuses particularly on engaging stakeholders, shaping demand and realizing value.

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Course Topics

Understand how customer journeys are designed

  • Understand the concept of the customer journey
  • Understand the ways of designing and improving customer journeys

Know how to target markets and stakeholders

  • Understand the characteristics of markets
  • Understand marketing activities and techniques
  • Know how to describe customer needs and internal and external factors that affect these
  • Know how to identify service providers and explain their value propositions

Know how to foster stakeholder relationships

  • Understand the concepts mutual readiness and maturity
  • Understand the different supplier and partner relationship types, and how these are managed
  • Know how to develop customer relationships
  • Know how to analyse customer needs
  • Know how to use communication and collaboration activities and techniques
  • Know how the “Relationship management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to fostering relationships
  • Know how the “Supplier management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to supplier and partner relationships management

Know how to shape demand and define service offerings

  • Understand methods for designing digital service experiences based on value driven, data driven and user centred service design
  • Understand approaches for selling and obtaining service offerings
  • Know how to capture, influence and manage demand and opportunities
  • Know how to collect, specify and prioritise requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders
  • Know how the “Business analysis” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to requirement management and service design

Know how to align expectations and agree details of services

  • Know how to plan for value co-creation
  • Know how to negotiate and agree service utility, warranty and experience
  • Know how the “Service level management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to service expectation management

Know how to onboard and offboard customers and users

  • Understand key transition, onboarding and offboarding activities
  • Understand the ways of relating with users and fostering user relationships
  • Understand how users are authorized and entitled to services
  • Understand different approaches to mutual elevation of customer, user and service provider capabilities
  • Know how to prepare onboarding and offboarding plans
  • Know how to develop user engagement and delivery channels
  • Know how the “Service Catalogue management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to offering user services
  • Know how the “Service Desk” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to user engagement

Know how to act together to ensure continual value co-creation (service consumption / provisioning)

  • Understand how users can request services
  • Understand methods for triaging of user requests
  • Understand the concept of user communities
  • Understand methods for encouraging and managing customer and user feedback
  • Know how to foster a service mindset (attitude, behaviour and culture)
  • Know how to use different approaches to provision of user services
  • Know how to seize and deal with customer and user ‘moments of truth’
  • Know how the “Service request management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to service usage

Know how to realise and validate service value

  • Understand methods for measuring service usage and customer and user experience and satisfaction
  • Understand different types of reporting of service outcome and performance
  • Understand charging mechanisms
  • Know how to assess service value realization
  • Know how to prepare to evaluate and improve the customer journey
  • Know how the “Portfolio management” practice can be applied to enable and contribute to service value realisation

The examination consists of 40 multiple-choice questions. Each question is worth one mark, and candidates must achieve 28 marks out of 40 (70%) to pass. The examination is closed book and lasts 90 minutes.

40 Questions
90 Minutes
70% Pass Mark
Multi Choice Format
Closed Book
1 Mark Each

To attend this course, delegates must hold an ITIL v3 certification, ITIL 4 Foundation or the ITIL 4 Managing Professional certificate. Accredited training through an Accredited Training Organization or ITIL Official eLearning is mandatory before examination results can be released.

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Join an expert trainer in a live online classroom. The course is delivered in real time and includes trainer explanation, discussion, exercises and opportunities to ask questions. Electronic course materials and joining instructions are provided before the course.

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Study through professionally produced online learning at your own pace, with extended platform access so you can work around your existing commitments. The package includes the learning materials, interactive activities, practice questions and the relevant examination voucher where applicable.

e-Learning+ • Self-Paced + Extras

e-Learning+ includes everything provided with the standard e-Learning package (learning materials, interactive activities, practice questions and the relevant examination voucher where applicable), together with additional preparation and reassurance. This includes a mock examination and the PeopleCert Take2 exam re-sit option, subject to the applicable examination terms.

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