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Collaborative Business Design

Collaborative Business Design

SKU: 4839
Authors: Brian Johnson and Léon-Paul de Rouw
Publishers: ITGP
Format: PDF
ISBN13: 9781849289399
Pages: 129
Published: 06 Jul 2017
Availability: Available
Format: ePub
ISBN13: 9781849289405
Pages: 129
Published: 06 Jul 2017
Availability: Available

Introducing business service design (BSD) – a methodology for creating IT-driven business services, aimed at
everyone responsible for their design and implementation, or involved in their operation.

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Overview

Only by understanding IT-driven business services and anchoring them in a service design statement (SDS) can enterprises translate business needs into IT-intensive business services.

In Collaborative Business Design – Improving and innovating the design of IT-driven business services, Brian Johnson and Léon-Paul de Rouw comprehensively explain how to use business service design (BSD) to formulate an effective SDS that will help business and IT cooperate to create robust, efficient services that support business requirements.


Product overview

Collaborative Business Design delves into the inner workings of services, with the aim of making sure that each side – business and IT – understands the other’s needs and drivers so that services can deliver what is required, expected and promised throughout their lifecycle. It:

  • Examines the gap in understanding between IT and business.
  • Introduces BSD – an analytic approach to understanding the characteristics of IT-driven business services.
  • Provides an overview of the components and characteristics of IT-driven business services.
  • Considers the different parts of the BSD and SDS.
  • Offers insight into the design of IT-driven business services using BSD.
  • Discusses practical consequences for business transformation to continuously define, develop and improve services that customers want to use.

Full of useful diagrams and examples (and quotations from an unusual range of sources including Star Trek, Mick Jagger and Oscar Wilde), Collaborative Business Design explains how to guide the development, building, programme management, and maintenance of IT-driven business services.

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Introducing business service design (BSD)

BSD is a simple approach to designing the overarching architecture of any IT-driven business service.

It merges the pragmatism and logic of the UK Government Gateway method with service blueprinting and the stakeholder approach to gaining consensus.

BSD is not an architecture for software development or for technology support – it complements existing frameworks such as TOGAF, IT4IT, BiSL® Next and ITIL® by focusing on business architecture, a subject rarely discussed before designing an IT-intensive, complex business service.


Who should read this book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for designing and implementing IT-driven services, or who is involved in their operation. This includes everyone on both sides of supply and demand, including:

  • Internal and external service providers, such as service managers, contract managers, bid managers, lead architects, requirement analysts
  • Business, financial, sales, marketing and operations managers who are responsible for output and outcome
  • Sales and product managers who need to present and improve service offerings
  • Developers who need to develop new and improved services
  • Contract managers and those responsible for purchasing
  • Consultants, strategists, business managers, business process owners, business architects, business information managers, chief information officers, information systems owners and information architects
About the author

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson has published more than 30 books, including over a dozen official titles in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many of which are used worldwide. He designed and led the programme for ITIL version 2.

He has had several functions and roles during his career, including vice president, lead architect, director and consultant. One of his current roles is as chief architect at the ASL BISL Foundation, which provides guidance on business information management to a wide range of public- and private-sector businesses in the Benelux region. Brian is chief architect for the redesign of all guidance and will be the author of new strategic publications.

Léon-Paul de Rouw

Léon-Paul de Rouw studied technical management and organisation sociology. He worked for several years as a consultant and researcher in the private sector. Since 2003, he has been a programme manager with the central government in the Netherlands. He is responsible for all types of projects and programmes that focus on IT and business.

Currently, he is the project manager for a multi-million euro project on the nationwide implementation of IT-driven business services.

Léon-Paul’s previous books were primarily written for professionals in their field, including IT demand-supply and facilities management. The books have since been used by a number of institutions as guides and textbooks, and have also been incoproated into postgraduate courses.

Customer Reviews

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Number of reviews: 5
1. on 30/05/2017, said:
5 stars out of 5
BSD is moving the conversation from IT as an operations center to more of a key component of the business’s genetic makeup. This book is a must read if you want to cement an alliance between business and IT.
2. on 30/05/2017, said:
5 stars out of 5
Wickedly funny in many places, well researched and pragmatic. Highly recommended.
3. on 30/05/2017, said:
5 stars out of 5
I loved the concept and the sensible approach to what are sometimes seen as complex issues.
4. on 30/05/2017, said:
5 stars out of 5
The logical step up from focusing just on IT, this makes perfect sense
5. on 30/05/2017, said:
5 stars out of 5
More than ever, applications software (what consumers call 'services'.....) reaches deep into everyday business processes. In order for the modern business to grow or simply to secure market position, rapid and efficient service development and IT delivery is demanded from IT suppliers. This book offers valued insight to strengthen the alliance between business and IT.
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