ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI: Direct, Plan and Improve Course
The ITIL® 4: Direct, Plan, and Improve (DPI) course equips you to align team goals with organizational strategy, manage changes, and ensure continuous improvement through advanced governance and management concepts.
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20
Language
English
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Axelos
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About this Course
What is the Goal of the ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI Course?
The ITIL® Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve Course – (DPI) helps you to uncover key areas to lead your organization with learning and improving IT strategy. ITIL® 4 Strategist: ITIL4 DPI Course allows you to acquire the necessary skills to set a strategic direction for your organization.
Axelos design the ITIL®4 Strategist DPI certificate to provide practitioners with a practical method for planning and delivering successful outcomes with high agility.
Hence, by the end of this course, you will obtain the following objectives:
- Recapping ITIL® 4 Foundation main concepts, including service value system – SVS and service value chain
- Understanding the key principles of ITIL®4 Strategist DPI Course
- Comprehending the scope of applying the DPI and the DPI values practices
- Understanding the role of Governance, Risk, and Compliance – GRC
- Getting to know how to integrate the principles and methods into the service value system - SVS
- Highlighting the ability to implement the 4 dimensions and the difference between both the service-oriented and the technology-oriented environments
- Setting a successful strategy and direction – ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI is crucial for getting a clear alignment between strategy, operations, and maximizing the outcomes
- Studying essential methods for developing an SVS or service value system
- Achieving aspired outcomes with available resources, and estimated costs which are often related to risk management
- Allocating the needed service relationships to avoid new risks and costs that affect company objectives and expected outcomes
- Setting the direction of the organizational service portfolio to align with strategic objectives
- Involving associated stakeholders with the organization in directing, planning, and improving the areas in their scope of control
Who Needs ITIL 4 Strategist DPI Course?
The ITIL® strategist: direct, plan and improve certification is designed to address the needs of those in the IT service management field who aim at elevating their area of expertise, including:
- IT service management managers and directors
- Managers who are handling strategic and development processes
- Digital managers who plan to enhance products while managing organizational changes
- IT professionals interfacing with governance, risk and compliance responsibilities
- Technology strategists and strategic leaders
- Anyone interested in service management
Skills & Competencies Obtained from ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve Course
- You will build all the needed skills and competencies you will get from the ITIL 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve to handle all the necessary requirements in the improvement processes.
- By the end of this DPI course, you will build the below skills:
- Effective organizational change management
- Leading a work environment of continuous improvement
- Enhancing decision-making skills
- Minimizing risks and disruptions
- Setting creative solutions within a compliant environment
DPI Exam Details
The ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan and Improve exam contains multiple qualification eligibilities or ITIL DPI exam prerequisites as shown below.
ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI Exam Prerequisite
ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI exam has a pre-requisite step where you shall hold the ITIL 4 Foundation certification for studying the Direct, Plan and Improve certificate.
Please Note:
- We recommend the candidates who completed the ITIL® strategist: direct, plan and improve certification to start their continuous learning journey ITIL ® 4 Leader: Digital and IT Strategy module to have a holistic view of the ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader designation.
DPI Exam Format
The ITIL ® 4 Strategist DPI exam format consists of multiple-choice questions, and you can check the following points of the exam in-depth:
- The ITIL® strategist DPI exam will be multiple-choice questions
- The DPI exam consists of 40 questions, each worth 1 mark
- Candidates require 28 questions correct of 70% to pass the exam
- The duration of the DPI exam in 90 minutes
- The ITIL® Strategist: direct, plan and improve exam is a closed book exam
ITIL® Strategist DPI Certifications
The ITIL® 4 Direct, Plan and Improve exam evaluates your understanding of the essential concepts of ITIL 4 Direct, Plan and Improve modules and methods. In addition, the DPI exam assesses your ability of an implementation to build a learning and improving IT organization.
Candidates who want to acquire the ITIL® 4 Managing Professional certification shall hold the ITIL® 4 Direct, Plan and Improve certification as a pre-requisite because it evaluates both practical and technical knowledge about running a successful IT environment with IT services, teams, and workflows.
The ITIL® strategist: direct, plan and improve certification is also a pre-requisite for ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader as it estimates the candidate's capability to build and implement an effective IT and digital strategy. Hence, the ITIL® 4 Strategist DPI certificate is vital for IT leaders as it empowers them with the needed ledge to set digital disruption and drive continuous success.
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Course Inclusions
- Main Components of ITIL V4 Foundation
- The Guiding principles
- The ITIL management practices
- SVS - The Service Value Chain
- Governance in the SVS
- Continual improvement and it’s Model
- Direction
- Planning
- Improvement
- Measurement and Reporting
- Direction, planning, and improvement of the ITIL SVS
- Achieving value in ITIL 4
- Strategy Management and Alignment
- Scope of control
- Governance structures - Decision-making and Roles
- Risk management in direct, plan, and improve
- Decision-making practice in Portfolio management
- Building, communicating, and advocating for a business case
- Direction via governance, risk, and compliance
- Effective controls and Guidelines
- Defining and ensuring compliance
- Basics of assessment and Planning
- Effective assessment
- Basics of and Planning
- Value stream mapping - Introduction and Developing
- Lean and Waste
- Typical mistakes in value stream mapping
- Basics of measurement and reporting
- Key concepts of measurement and reporting
- Four key reasons to measure
- Types of measurements
- Planning and evaluation model
- Balanced scorecard
- Success factors and KPIs
- Measurement and the four dimensions
- Measurement of products and services
- Creating a continual improvement culture
- Continual improvement in organizations
- Continual improvement model
- Visions and Assessment for improvements
- Measurement and reporting in continual improvement
- Effective communication
- Communication principles
- Communication is key for direct, plan, and improve
- Communication methods and media
- Identifying and communicating with stakeholders
- Basics of Organizational change management
- OCM - direction, planning and improvement
- OCM - throughout the service value chain
- Resistance to change
- Adopting the guiding principles
- Centre of excellence for service management
- The four dimensions of service management in the SVS
- Roles and jobs in SVS
- Partners and suppliers in the SVS
- Value streams and processes in the SVS
- Theory of constraints
- Kanban technique for managing work
- Information and technology in the SVS
- Modern Leadership - Servant leadership
- "Using the guiding principles for direction, planning, and improvement"
- Conclusion
- End note: The ITIL story
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