Course Content
ITIL® 4 Specialist: Drive Stakeholder Value Training

Module 1: Understand how customer journeys are designed

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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: Know how to foster stakeholder relationships

  • Understand the concepts of 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 analyze 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 (the relationship management practice)
  • Know how the supplier management practice can be applied to enable and contribute to supplier and partner relationships management (the supplier management practice)

Module 4: Know how to shape demand and define service offerings

  • Understand methods for designing digital service experiences based on value-driven, data-driven, and user-centered 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 prioritize 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 (the business analysis)

Module 5: Know how to align expectations and agree details of services

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

Module 6: 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 the mutual elevation of the 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 (the service catalog management practice
  • Know how the Service Desk practice can be applied to enable and contribute to user engagement
  • Understand how users can request services

Module 7: Know how to act together to ensure continual value co-creation (service consumption / provisioning)

  • Understand methods for triaging 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, behavior, and culture)
  • Know how to use different approaches to the 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 (the service request management practice)

Module 8: Know how to realize and validate service value

  • Understand methods for measuring service usage and customer and user experience and satisfaction
  • Understand methods to track and monitor service value (outcome, risk, cost, and resources)
  • 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 realization (9.5.5, the portfolio management practice)