It appears that some organizations are starting to realise that the SIAM model adopted some years ago when it was the fad, is not all it was cracked up to be.   Organizations saw SIAM as the opportunity to reduce costs and offload the responsibilities of…

Every business could benefit greatly from using technology in one way or another. A survey conducted by AT&T and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, found that smartphones alone save business owners 1.24 Billion hours a year, while mobile technologies save small businesses more than USD 65 Billion a year.…

AXELOS is to make ITIL® Practitioner – the new certification of the world's most widely adopted service management framework – available in German, Japanese, French and Latin American Spanish as part of an ongoing international expansion. ITIL Practitioner is the most significant recent evolution in the ITIL® best practice…

February 19-22, 2017 Las Vegas – Bellagio Hotel The world's #1 IT Service Management conference! Pink17's theme is Communicate. Connect. Change. The event will focus on how to successfully lead and manage people, processes and technology in today's ever changing IT and business landscapes. Some…

Have you ever wanted to know how ITIL is running in other organisations? In other countries? In other cultures?  Brazilians have a good reputation worldwide for managing IT services, however we all know that nothing is perfect or always black and white. In this book, Daniel Ramalho has…

The latest revision to one of ITGP's bestselling titles; Selling Information Security to the Board, is now available to download. Persuading the board to invest in information security measures requires sales skills. Many information security professionals are scientific and technical specialists; and yet they need to get the message across to people…

To enable SIAM to be effective across internal and external suppliers the introduction of a Service Management Definition Document (SMDD) is recommended

Starting any project can't go without many questions asked. ISO 20000 is not an exception. One of the mandatory questions, and among the first ones to ask, is – “How much does it cost?” Management is the first one who would like to know the answer, so you have to be…

For something that touted itself as the best thing to happen to IT service management, the silver bullet to all of IT woes, ITIL is no longer seen that way by many of the people who actually work in today's modern IT environment. The past several years have seen an…

In this second part of the article we will look at having reached the stage where we know that we are going to proceed with a service or change request (using the ITIL Change Management processes for Request For Change [RFC])