Although ITIL continued to be adopted due to its proven IT practices implemented by many thousands of organizations through the mid-2000s, many organizations were looking for something more when it comes to service management. Why? To become high-performing IT that can help speed application development, operate more cost-effectively, and break down the silos between development…

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Customer needs and expectations are changing at an ever-increasing rate of acceleration, not just velocity. Both are vectors, meaning, these have visions and strategies that give the organization direction and determine its culture. These must frequently change if organizations want to thrive in the turbulent environment of uncertainty and risk.  High-velocity organizations efficiently stay aligned…

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Please note that the questions in this blog post only cover the information that has been made public about the ITIL 4 scheme. We provide our partners with a much more detailed FAQ (including the transition module, important dates, translations, trainer information, and courseware information) which you can access through your EdCast Marketplace account. What…

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It is August, and for most Europeans, that means it is time to celebrate their vacation. A time to take a well-deserved break from business, school, or study. For me, it means time to prepare for what will be coming in the last months of the year. It will be September by the time everyone…

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As a member of the AXELOS Lead Architect Team where I am involved in the development of the new version of ITIL I want to share some information about the underlying reason for the update of ITIL (ITIL4), the current status of the development of ITIL4 and how the AXELOS team operates to create a…

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Have you ever been involved in a project or program to improve an IT function’s way of working? And how did it go? Many of these improvement initiatives end in tears. Let’s change that. The people who are tasked with the actual improvement seem to get bogged down by their day-job, resulting in disappointment and…

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ITpreneurs had asked Kaimar Karu, Head of ITSM at AXELOS to write a foreword to be included in the ITpreneurs ITIL Practitioner coursebook. The foreword is published here on the blog to encourage ITIL practitioners. Times have changed. The IT function cannot afford to remain an ’outsider’, a mere cost center for the rest of…

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For his blog post, we could also have used the headline “Playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde During Your ITIL Practitioner Delivery”. But who’s Mr. Jekyll and who’s Mr. Hyde? The ITIL Practitioner course is developed by practitioners for practitioners. Having been part of the ITIL Practitioner course development at ITpreneurs, I realized that it’s…

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