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General Methodology of IT Service Portfolio Management
Charvát, Josef ; Střížová, Vlasta (advisor) ; Pour, Jan (referee) ; Mikulecký, Peter (referee)
One of the key processes of IS/IT service provider is Service Level Management. IT service provider faces a problem how the services should be defined, how a balanced service portfolio should be set up and how the processes covering the service management should be designed to meet strategic goals of the organization. The thesis focuses on IS/IT service portfolio design and management with a particular focus on infrastructure services. General goal of the thesis is to support IS/IT service provider's activities directly linked with service level management, IT financial management and IT service portfolio design. The thesis puts together theoretical sources in the area of IT Governance, generally accepted methodologies and best practices, actual market trends and author's experience. The theoretical part maps current development in the field of IS/IT service management, summarizes relevant theoretical inputs, categorizes IS/IT services, gives an overview of the most commonly used pricing models and presents actual IS/IT market trends, such as SaaS or Utility Computing. The application part, which follows the theoretical part of the thesis, is built upon fundaments of key findings and conclusions of the theoretical part. Application section introduces a method of service level management transformation and a business model suitable for IS/IT service provider. Furthermore a process of IS/IT service portfolio design is introduced. The process is supported by an analytical tool, which enables analysis of provider's financial and infrastructure data. The output of the analysis is a set of scenarios of IS/IT service portfolio including revenue, costs and utilization of resources and technologies. Academic benefit is seen not only in the consolidation of relevant theoretical sources dealing with IT service design and management. The thesis also introduces frameworks for optimization of service level management process and a concept of a IT service provider's business model. A practical contribution of the thesis is seen in a process of IT service portfolio design supported by an analytical tool for provider's real data processing, covering demand, capacity, utilization and financials.
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Services categorization from business and IT perspective
Matas, Radek ; Burkoň, Lukáš (advisor) ; Feuerlicht, Jiří (referee)
With rapid technological progress, the services' share of national GDP is still increasing. The question is, whether the services are properly and sufficiently supported by available information technology instruments. This thesis will be a contribution to the development in the new academic branch called Service Science, Management and Engineering which is concerned with studying of services and it will become a part of this branch. The sence of service categorization is in transparent and organized determination. Some service categorizations in general or in the field of information technology have been made in the past but I will try to add some new perspectives or, where appropriate, to add comments to existing categorizations.
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