The best practice approach and the Seven-step Improvement Process for Continual Service Improvement (CSI) begin with identifying the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the business. In order to measure with appropriate targets these outcomes and objectives must be quantified. If you cannot measure it you cannot improve it. First and foremost in order to perform ongoing CSI for a service we must identify the service. That is just common sense right? Yet how many discussions take place in Sales, in Development, and in Operations about whether something is or is not a service. Collectively everyone in the lifecycle has a mission to meet the outcomes of the service or services that are being provided. Measuring and Reporting For CSI to be successful we measure and monitor and report upon a service end-to-end. When measuring and reporting IT managers will generally report availability in terms of percent with such things as ...