Articles tagged with ITIL 4

Hottest ITSM Trends for 2025

ITSM Trends for 2025

This article shares the results of ITSM.tools ITSM Trends for 2025 content poll based on 176 responses. There are also insights into how ITSM trends have changed over time, some trend-related opinions, and links to existing trend-related ITSM.tools content that might still help.

2025 ITSM Topics

2025’s Hot ITSM Topics

What IT service management (ITSM) help will you and your organization need in 2025? This is why we run our annual ITSM Topics poll – it’s good to know where you’ll likely focus next year and where others will be focusing, too. Plus, it provides a collective shout-out for assistance in certain ITSM areas.

ITSM Principles and Best Practices

10 Key ITSM Principles and Best Practices

Adhering to ITSM principles better positions your organization for long-term success – from ITIL adoption, through Knowledge-Centere Service, to streamlining change management. This article explains more.

ITSM Tool Certification

ITSM Tool Certification – The PeopleCert ITIL ATV Programme

Independent IT service management (ITSM) tool certification is a valuable tool-selection input for any organization looking to procure a new ITSM tool. So, if you’re looking for an introduction to the PeopleCert ITIL-Accredited Tool Vendors (ATV) programme, this article is for you.

Service Model Development Using the ITIL 4 Guiding Principles

Service Model Development Using ITIL 4 for Service Delivery

If you’re a large organization, or an IT service provider offering services to large enterprises, then reviewing your standard service model on a regular basis is imperative. Ensuring that it stays aligned with your business and IT strategy. This article explains why and how to create one if you haven’t already got one in place.

Defining Your IT Service Desk Structure

Defining Your IT Service Desk Structure

This article provides advise on ITSM frameworks, standards, and methodologies; IT service desk roles; and how to define your service desk structure.

ITIL 4 explained

ITIL 4 IT Service Management Practices

Here Akshay Anand – Lead Architect for the ITIL update – gives the lowdown on the new ITIL 4, including the new service value system, the ‘four dimensions’, the updated guiding principles (originally found in ITIL Practitioner), and the change of processes to practices.

ITSM Help for 2024

What ITSM Help Will You Need in 2024?

Every year, ITSM.tools runs a quick, one-question poll to understand the “ITSM help” readers would like in the year ahead. Please help by taking this years poll to tell us which topics will be important to you in the year ahead.

Four Dimensions of Service Management

The ITIL Four Dimensions of Service Management

The Four Dimensions of Service Management were introduced in ITIL 4, with the perspectives collectively crucial to understanding service value creation for stakeholders, including customers. This article explains how.

"ITIL Processes"

ITIL Adoption: Which ITIL Processes are Adopted First?

If you’re wondering which of the ITIL processes/practices to adopt next, this article looks at what other organizations have done. It’s a small sample size but the distribution of each process across adoption phases is very interesting.

ITIL Supplier Management

How ITIL Supplier Management Delivers Better Services

This article explains how managing vendors and suppliers using ITIL supplier management can help businesses improve their operations and the benefits, challenges, and solutions associated with this approach.