This document establishes a continual performance improvement (CPI) process that supports service management system (SMS) as defined in the ISO/IEC 20000 series.

This process ensures successful deployment and service performance criteria fulfilment.

This process is based on a predictive performance evaluation method and a related repository.

This document is not intended to be used as a means of certification and does not add any requirements to those specified in ISO/IEC 20000‑1.

This document does not provide specific criteria for identifying the need for risk analysis, nor does it specify the types of risk analysis techniques that are used to support a particular technology.

This document does not offer techniques for implementing the continual performance improvement process.