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Strategy & Design
I like the Service Strategy & Service Design books, but I spend time poking around them all.
John M. Worthington
MyServiceMonitor, LLC
Service Operations
I happen to like Service Operations the best. It was also the first book that I looked at. I was pleased to see the "Yellow Book" content (Application Management) get some renewed life/interest.