ITIL Articles
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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One year on from the launch of ITIL 4, we ran an ITSM.tools survey to assess the level of its adoption across exam and qualification uptake, organizational use, and peoples’ expectations of benefits of the new body of ITSM guidance. The results will likely surprise you.
- Posted by Graham Heard
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This article provides an overview of why a Service Request Catalog Framework is an important addition to an enterprise’s overall service strategy – and offers up five tips for you to get started in creating one.
- Posted by Roman Jouravlev
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The global COVID-19 crisis has focused organizations on many things, including continuity planning and disaster recovery. However, it’s also highlighted the need for better risk management. This article from AXELOS looks at how various ITIL 4 practices will help your organization to better assess and manage risks.
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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In difficult times, while there needs to be attention on the firefighting at hand, it’s also good to look to the future. So, in this article we asked 36 people from all walks of ITSM to share their thoughts and opinions on how COVID-19 is going to impact the future of ITSM.
- Posted by Aray Kaken
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This article looks to demonstrate the importance of the ITIL 4 service value system and how demand and opportunities enter the workflows in your organization.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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What does a host of ITSM tool vendor personnel, industry analysts, and training service providers think the year ahead will hold for ITIL 4, when asked: “How do you see ITIL 4 impacting the ITSM industry over the next few years?”
- Posted by George Matrozos
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This article explores how the two service management approaches of ITIL 4 and VeriSM are either different or similar by going over their core concepts side-by-side – looking at governance, operational models, principles, and overall concepts.
- Posted by Joe The IT Guy
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When undertaking continual improvement it’s advisable to have a list of what you’d like to improve, which ITIL 4 calls a Continual Improvement register, and this article by Joe the IT Guy looks at what’s needed to keep your continual improvement register useful.
- Posted by Saad Mousliki
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This article takes a look at the change in mindset that comes with ITIL 4 and how “value” is positioned as a central element rather than a “service” as in ITIL v3. Plus three ways that it works better with other approaches such as DevOps.
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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With ITIL 4 the most requested ITSM topic for our 2020 articles, we’ve kicked off a short survey to look at how quickly the ITSM industry is likely to move with ITIL 4 adoption (and/or transition). It’s completely anonymous, so please kindly spare us one minute of your time to complete it?
- Posted by Joe The IT Guy
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Are you back at work after completing your ITIL exams, wanting to make a difference by putting your newly minted ITSM qualification to work? Well, before you do, take the time to understand the mistakes that are commonly made by people, and their organizations, once ITIL qualified by reading this article.
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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What will we all be concerned about in ITSM in 2020? To help, here’s a poll-results-based article that looks at what will be the hot trends and topics – in terms of reader interest – in 2020. If nothing else, you’ll probably be surprised at where some ITSM topic areas have been voted in at.
- Posted by José Carmona Orbezo
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What is the role of ITSM in supporting an organization’s journey to digital transformation in 2020 and beyond? This article explores.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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This article brings together the 2020 opinions of a variety of people from 18 ITSM tool vendors and two support-professional membership bodies. These are people who have, if you stop to think about it, their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in the ITSM industry right now…
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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At the start of this year, we asked our readers to vote on the ITSM-related content topics that they’d like to see helpful content published on in 2019 – this was used to guide our content throughout the year. Now, as we enter 2020, we’re doing the same thing again. Please take 30 seconds to vote.