Eighty percent of IT Service Management and ITIL programs and projects have failed to meet their objectives and are deemed a failure by the sponsor. Despite the high-profile success of ITSM and ITIL projects in organizations like Proctor & Gamble and BMO Financial, most ITSM projects will fail. This is…

British Petroleum (BP) International have signed a five year $400 million outsourcing services agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP).   HP will be utilizing services that are aligned to ITIL v3 to support BP. It is envisaged that BP will benefit from improved information management by aligning information…

12th December 2010   During the current tough global economy the municipal organization of The City of Kirkland, Washington has selected the ITSM solution provider, Axios Systems, and its ITSM software product assyst to support and mature its ITIL processes.   www.axiossystems.co.uk

When it comes to IT Service Management few would argue that ITIL has become the deFacto standard for defining processes.  But would it surprise you to learn that you can become ITIL certified right up to the "expert level" without ever learning how to effectively design a process?…

APMG-International is commencing a road show in India entitled 'Best Practices Showcase India Series 2010' which is taking place in Bangalore on November 16th 2010, Mumbai on November 17th 2010 and in Delhi on November 19th 2010.   APMG whom on behalf of the…

Fujitsu have won a three year contract with Verve Energy, an electricity generation company in Western Australia, to implement a series of ITIL processes and provide an IT Service Desk.   The ITIL processes include Incident management, Problem management and Change management. The Service Desk will…

If you have been tasked with the production of a Business Case to support the proposed introduction of ITIL into an organization then ITILnews may be able to offer some assistance.   On the ITILnews.com website stored under the left-hand menu heading entitled 'What is ITIL?'…

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is fostering NASA's alignment with recognition that information is the most important strategic resource any organization has to manage.   Using the ITIL v3 framework to champion positive changes in how NASA conducts IT business.   Linda Cureton,…

Zyrion Inc. Traverse, a Cloud and Network Monitoring solution using ITIL v3 Business Service Management (BSM) technology, has been awarded the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command.   Zyrion is meeting the evolving needs of government customers to monitor an…

TechTeam Global, Inc., a worldwide provider of IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing services, has announced that it is implementing an advanced Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - based toolset for Joy Global Inc. as a part of the two companies' long-standing outsourced services relationship.   The…