ITIL Articles

As we move into a new paradigm of customer engagement by corporate IT, ITIL is still as relevant now as it has ever been. Here’s why.
Why are organizations not translating excellence in IT management into equally good service? And can ITSM best practices, such as ITIL help remedy this? 
How do you convince senior IT and business leaders that ITSM, and specifically ITIL, are worth the time, effort, and money?
Don’t be fooled – by the cloud tech-talk of instances, databases, code, and APIs – into thinking that cloud is all about technology.
It’s time for a release management reinvention! Here are 10 tips to help improve your organization’s release management process and activities.
ITIL can be tough for people to wrap their heads around. Here, we’ve outlined a few tips to help ITSM practitioners get started with ITIL adoption.
Is it time to make some changes to ITSM training? To remove siloes, with end-to-end service delivery (strategy to design to operations) with CSI thrown in.
Change management continues to be a hot topic for ITSM pros, but we need to focus not just on the tech but on the pace of change within the human psyche.
This blog shares some insights on how to best overcome some of the challenges in adopting ITIL – the ITSM best practice framework – and its processes.
Stephen Mann queries if we can ever be 100% sure of anything purporting to be a true picture of adoption levels of ITSM and ITIL processes without a global survey.
This article looks at how to succeed with knowledge management, and how knowledge sharing shouldn’t stop at functional or process boundaries.
Stuart Rance discusses the nine guiding principles of ITIL Practitioner and how they fit in with the DevOps way of working.
Karen Brusch discusses the issues so often missed with service design and looks at what can we do to set a good foundation on which to base it.
This article looks at a the case study of how the University of Lincoln has formally linked BRM data with incident capture and reporting.
Better change management is critical to improving technology delivery, but how do you go about achieving it? Here Rebecca Beach shares her experience.