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Key Performance Indicators for IT Service Management

according to ITIL^® and ISO 20000

Performance Indicators of Service Strategy

Performance Indicators of Business Relationship Management

Process Goal

Customer- and Prospect Relations

• Number of new prospects in absolute figures

• Number of new customers in absolute figures

• Number of new contracts for standard services closed in absolute figures

Customer Satisfaction

• Customer satisfaction per service as rating

• Change in customer satisfaction in %

• Number of customer satisfaction surveys in absolute figures

• Return rate of customer satisfaction surveys in %

• Change in return rate of customer satisfaction surveys in %

• Number of customer complaints in absolute figures

• Change in number of customer complaints in %

• Number of accepted customer complaints in absolute figures

• Change in number of accepted customer complaints in %

Performance Indicators of Management of IT Service Strategy

Process Goal

Effectivity of the Service Strategy

• Ratio of planned new services in %

• Ratio of unplanned new services in %

• Number of new customers in absolute figures

• Number of lost customers in absolute figures

Implementation of the Service Strategy

• Number of strategic initiatives in absolute figures

• Number of successfully implemented strategic initiatives in %

Performance Indicators of Demand Management

Process Goal

• Current utilization of services per service in %

• Number of unplanned corrective actions for capacity of services in absolute figures

• Number of demand control activities in absolute figures

• Quote of successful demand control activities in %

Performance Indicators of Service Portfolio Management

Process Goal

• Ratio of planned new services in %

• Ratio of unplanned new services in %

• Review quota of services in %

• Review success of services (reviews with positive result) in %

Performance Indicators of Financial Management

Process Goal

• Compliance with budgets in %

• Compliance with IT project budgets in %

• Ratio of IT projects with continuous business cases respective cost-benefits-analysis in %

• Ratio of IT projects with approved business cases respective cost-benefits-analysis in %

• Ratio of IT projects with executed business case reviews in %

• Contribution margin per service in €

• Ratio of services with positive contribution margin in %

• Total contribution margin in €

• Total costs of services in €

• Costs per service in €

Performance Indicators of Service Design

Performance Indicators of Service Level Management

Process Goal

• Ratio of services with actual service level agreement in %

• Ratio of services with actual operational level agreement (where appropriate) in %

• Ratio of services with actual underpinning contracts (supplier contracts) (where appropriate) in %

• Ratio of reviewed service level agreements in %

• Ratio of reviewed operational level agreements in %

• Ratio of reviewed underpinning contracts (supplier contracts) in %

• Ratio of services fulfilling the agreed performance according to service level agreement in %

• Ratio of internal service contributions fulfilling the agreed performance according to operational level agreement in %

• Ratio of external service contributions fulfilling the agreed performance according to underpinning contract (supplier contract) in %

• Number of customer complaints due to not fulfilled service levels in absolute figures

• Consequential costs for corrective action due to not fulfilled service levels in €

• Consequential costs of contractual penalties due to not fulfilled service levels in €

• Number of detected improvement potentials from the review of service level arrangements in absolute figures

• Number of implemented improvement potentials from the review of service level arrangements in absolute figures

• Total costs of activities for service level management in €

Performance Indicators of Availability Management

Process Goal

• Reduction of unavailability of services in %

• Reduction of additional cost of business work due to unavailability of services in € und %

• Reduction of unavailability in defined peak business times in %

• Improvement of the satisfaction of the IT service consumers according to satisfaction survey in %

• Reduction of unavailability of services and components in %

• Improvement of end-to-end availability of services in %

• Improvement of mean time between failures (MTBF) in %

• Improvement of mean time between incidents (MTBI) in %

• Reduction of mean time to repair (MTTR) in %

• Improvement of the percentage of formally investigated breaches of service level agreements (SLA), operational level agreements (OLA) and underpinning contracts (UC) compared to the total amount in %

• Improvement of accomplishment quote of tests of the availability compared to availability planning in %

• Improvement of number of services and components under availability monitoring in %

• Number of activities to improve availability in absolute figures

• Reduction of costs of unavailability of services in € und %

• Reduction of costs of service provision in € und %

• Reduction of costs of corrective actions for availability in € und %

• Change of total costs for ensuring the agreed availabilities of services in € und %

Performance Indicators of Capacity & Performance Management

Process Goal

Provision of sufficient IT service and IT infrastructure capacities to fulfil the agreed service levels in terms of performance

Fulfillment of Business Requirements related to the Capacity of  IT Services

• Reduction of incidents in services due to insufficient capacity in %

• Reduction of additional cost of business work due to insufficient capacity of services in € und %

• Reduction of capacity and performance deficiencies in defined peak business times in %

• Improvement of the satisfaction of the IT service consumers according to satisfaction survey in %

• Capacity reserve compared to agreed average capacity per business critical service in %

• Capacity reserve compared to agreed peak capacity per business critical service in %

Management of Capacity of IT Services

• Reduction of incidents due to capacity issues in services and components in %

• Improvement of the percentage of formally investigated breaches of service level agreements (SLA), operational level agreements (OLA) and underpinning contracts (UC) compared to the total amount in %

• Improvement of number of services and components under availability monitoring in %

• Accuracy of capacity planning compared to real capacity consumption in %

• Number of activities to improve capacity in absolute figures

Optimized costs of agreed Capacities of IT Services

• Reduction of costs due to unsufficient capacity of services in € und %

• Reduction of costs of service provision in € und %

• Reduction of costs of corrective actions for capacity and performance in € und %

• Change of total costs for ensuring the agreed capacities of services in € und %

Performance Indicators of Risk Management

Process Goal

Risks analyzed regarding their impact to the business processes and covered by respective counter activities

• Rate of services with analyzed risks within the risk log in %

• Rate of services with defined activities to avoid risk occurrence within the risk log in %

• Number of occurred known risks in absolute figures

• Number of occurred previously not known risks in absolute figures

• Number of incidents due to known risks in absolute figures

• Number of incidents due to previously not known risks in absolute figures

• Service downtimes due to occurred known risks in hours

• Service downtimes due to previously not known risks in hours

• Consequential costs of occurred known risks in €

• Consequential costs of occurred previously not known risks in €

Performance Indicators of Information Security Management

Process Goal

Permanent knowledge about the risk situation and effective activities to avoid them in place

• Number of implemented security controls in absolute figures

• Number of implemented preventive activities for detected security threats in absolute figures

• Number of executed security tests in absolute figures

• Number of incidents due to security relevant occurrences in absolute figures

• Number of emergency cases due to security relevant occurrences in absolute figures

• Number of identified deficiencies during security tests

• Service outages due to security relevant occurrences in hours

Performance Indicators of Service Continuity Management

Process Goal

Granted fastest possible restart or controlled minimal operation of the IT environment in case of disaster by planning, implementation and training of procedures therefore

Defined Precautions for Disaster Scenarios

• Number of precaution deficiencies (high impact threat scenarios without planned counter activities) in absolute figures

• Rate of services with defined continuity targets in service level agreements, operating level agreements and underpinning contracts (supplier contracts) in %

• Coverage of disaster scenarios by necessary 3rd level support contracts in %

• Rate of validations of revisions of the disaster planning together with the business management in %

Validated Responsiveness for Disaster Scenarios

• Number of performed disaster practices in absolute figures

• Number of detected deficiencies during disaster practice in absolute figures

• Time consumption of the implementation of planned corrective actions in case of disaster compared with the disaster planning in %

Performance Indicators of Supplier Management

Process Goal

All contracts with suppliers support the requirements of the company's business and all suppliers fulfill their contractual duties

Comprehensiveness of Supplier Management

• Ratio of services with actual underpinning contracts (supplier contracts) (where appropriate) in %

• Ratio of reviewed underpinning contracts (supplier contracts) in %

• Number of performed supplier reviews in absolute figures

• Ratio of suppliers with actual supplier review in %

• Number of suppliers with deficiencies stated in the supplier assessment in absolute figures

• Number of performed improvement initiatives for the supplier quality in absolute figures

Performance Indicators of Service Transition

Performance Indicators of Change Management

Process Goal

Value creating and incident free changes and modifications to IT services ensured by control of the complete lifecycle of the change according to economic aspects

Controlled Process for Modifications of IT Services

• Number of modifications to services outside the process in absolute figures and in %

• Number of withdrawn (not successful) changes in absolute figures and in %

•  Acceptance rate of change requests in %

• Number of changes in absolute figures

• Number of changes in change advisory board in absolute figures

• Number of emergency changes (in emergency change advisory board) in absolute figures

• Reduction of unavailability of services and components caused by changes in %

• Number of incidents caused by changes in absolute figures

• Trend of overall costs for ensuring correct changes to services in € and %

• Reduction of the costs of corrective actions after changes in € and %

Performance Indicators of Release and Deployment Management

Process Goal

All phases of rollouts holistically controlled

Implementation of Release and Deployment Management

• Number of releases in absolute figures

• Number of minor releases in absolute figures

• Rate of automated deployed releases in %

• Rate of releases rolled back in %

• Total spending for releases in €

• Number of incidents due to releases in absolute figures

• Number of known errors in releases in absolute figures

Performance Indicators of Service Validation and Test

Process Goal

Implementation of IT services regarding the IT services themselves and the ability for support by the IT organization quality controlled

• Number of executed tests in absolute figures

• Rate of tests with formal test plan in %

• Rate of successful tests in %

• Number of identified defects in absolute figures

• Number of incidents caused by new releases in absolute figures

• Rate of negative acceptance tests in %

Performance Indicators of Service Asset and Configuration Management

Process Goal

Quality ensured information about configuration items and their relations and dependencies available for all ITSM disciplines

• Coverage ratio of IT assets in configuration management system in %

• Reduction of detected errors in configuration management system audit in %

• Ratio of successfully audited configuration items in %

• Number of detected unauthorized changes due to monitoring of configuration items in absolute figures

• Reduction of incidents due to wrongly documented configuration items in %

• Reduction of solving time for incidents and problems due to correctly documented configuration items in %

• Reduction of the number of missing or double documented configuration items in %

• Reduction of costs for the administration of configuration items in € und %

Performance Indicators of Project Management

Process Goal

Service transition ensured by transition planning, -support and project management

• Number of transition projects in absolute figures

• Rate of transition projects with modifications after project start in %

• Adherence to project schedules in %

• Adherence to project budgets in %

Performance Indicators of Service Operation

Performance Indicators of Event Management

Process Goal

IT systems and IT services monitored for extraordinary occurrences and situations, appropriate necessary activities thereof triggered

• Number of automatically monitored services and systems in absolute figures

• Rate of automatically monitored services and systems in %

• Number of event messages in absolute figures

• Number of automatically created event messages in absolute figures

• Rate of automatically created event messages with following necessary correction needs in %

• Rate of automatically created event tickets (event messages including a verifiable incident) in %

Performance Indicators of Incident Management

Process Goal

Incidents eliminated as fast as possible, reliable and documented

• Number of incidents per category in absolute figures

• Average rate of open incidents in %

• Number of major incidents in absolute figures

• Total cost of incident management in €

• Rate of incidents solved directly by 1st level support in %

• Rate of incidents solved in time in %

• Number of escalations due to insufficient or too late incident solving in absolute figures

• Number of recurring incidents (incident happens again despite having been solved) per category in absolute figures

• Number of consecutive incidents (ticket has to be reopened) in absolute figures

• Average incident solving time in hours

• Average response time from service desk (message to first reaction) in minutes

Performance Indicators of Problem Management

Process Goal

Problems managed over their lifecycle, solved and documented, occurrence of incidents due to these problems avoided

Implementation of Problem Management

• Number of problems per category in absolute figures

• Average rate of open problems in %

• Number of major problems in absolute figures

• Total cost of problem management in €

Effectivity of Problem Management

• Number of incidents to known problems per category in absolute figures

• Average problem recognition time (initial incident until identification of the underlying problem) in hours

• Average problem solving time (problem identification until solution or permanent workaround for known error) in hours

• Number of consecutive problems (ticket has to be reopened) in absolute figures

• Average effort to solve a problem per category in hours

• Number of known errors in absolute figures

• Number of permanent workarounds in absolute figures

Performance Indicators of Continual Service Improvement

Performance Indicators of Service Evaluation

Process Goal

Continual quality improved processes of IT service management within the framework of a controlled consistent process architecture

Implementation of Service Evaluation

• Number of IT Services in absolute figures

• Rate of reviewed IT Services in %

• Rate of IT Services with defined Service Responsibles (Service Owner) in %

• Toal cost of Service Evaluation in €

Effectivity of Service Evaluation

• Number of recommendations for service improvement in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented recommendations for service improvement in %

• Number of initiatives triggered due to deficiencies detected during service review in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented initiatives triggered due to deficiencies detected during service review in %

Performance Indicators of Process Management

Process Goal

Continual quality improved processes of IT service management within the framework of a controlled consistent process architecture

Implementation of Process Management

• Number of documented ITSM processes in absolute figures

• Rate of documented ITSM processes in %

• Rate of ITSM processes with defined process owners in %

• Total cost of process management in €

Effectivity of Process Management

• Process maturity of the separate ITSM processes according to CMMI or SPICE (ISO 15504)

• Number of recommendations for process improvement in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented recommendations for process improvement in %

• Number of initiatives triggered due to deficiencies detected during process review in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented initiatives triggered due to deficiencies detected during process review in %

Performance Indicators of Improvement Management

Process Goal

Holistically planned and realized improvement initiatives for the IT service management

Implementation of Improvement Management

• Number of improvement initiatives in absolute figures

• Rate of open improvement initiatives in %

• Total cost of improvement management in €

• Number of recommendations for service- or process quality improvement in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented recommendations for service- or process quality improvement in %

• Number of initiatives due to correction demand in absolute figures

• Rate of implemented initiatives due to correction demand in %

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