Facilitating management of service elements usable in providing information technology service offerings

A method of facilitating management of service elements, said method comprising:

• obtaining a service element;
• and
• establishing at least one relationship between the service element and at least one other service element.

A method of facilitating management of service elements, said method comprising:

• obtaining a service element;
• and
• including within the service element one or more other service elements.

A method of defining service elements, said method comprising:

• identifying a service element to be defined;
• and
• defining the service element as a discrete package of at least one of one or more units of time and one or more materials usable in the field of information technology, said information technology including providing in-house services.

A method of facilitating construction of service elements, said method comprising:

• selecting one or more templates to be used in constructing a service element;
• and
• using the one or more templates in constructing the service element.

A system of facilitating management of service elements, said system comprising:

• a data structure to define a service element usable in providing services to at least one of an in-house customer and an outsourcing customer, said data structure comprising a relational structured set of information associated with the service element;
• and
• means for creating the service element, said means for creating comprising means for placing information of said service element in the data structure.

A system of facilitating management of service elements, said system comprising:

• a service element;
• and
• means for establishing at least one relationship between the service element and at least one other service element.

A system of facilitating management of service elements, said system comprising:

• a data structure to define a service element usable in providing services to at least one of an in-house customer and an outsourcing customer, said data structure comprising a relational structured set of information associated with the service element;
• and
• a service development tool to manage the service element.

A system of facilitating management of service elements, said system comprising:

• a service element;
• and
• a service development tool to establish at least one relationship between the service element and at least one other service element.

At least one program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of facilitating management of service elements, said method comprising:

• defining a service element usable in providing services to at least one of an in-house customer and an outsourcing customer;
• and
• wherein the defining comprises using a data structure, said data structure comprising a relational structured set of information associated with the service element.

At least one program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of facilitating management of service elements, said method comprising:

• obtaining a service element;
• and
• establishing at least one relationship between the service element and at least one other service element.