Has IT Service Operations disappeared from ITIL v4 ?

[pramen]

Hello

IT Service Operations is a critical component of IT but I cannot find anywhere in the ITIL v4 manual references to IT Service Operations.

Has Axelos deliberately excluded IT Service Operations from ITIL v4 or are all the Practices now considered to be part of IT Service Operations?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts,

Perry

[Corde Wagner]

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The ITIL 4 learning includes keys to leveraging Incident Management, Service Requests, Problem Management and other practices only as one part of the Service Value System. A key was that from the training I was able to better understand how ITIL 4 practices don't happen in any particular order (not linear, which unfortunately is often how people interpreted ITIL v3-2011 processes) and how that is applied along with the SVC, governance, guiding principles, CSI, etc.

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Corde