by Nikola Gaydarov I am an ITIL v3 Expert and I have been teaching ITIL for the last 5 years. During this time, I had many discussions with my students on how ITIL can be improved. We went up and down the phases and the process and as a result… Read More

By Doug Tedder The latest edition of ITIL, ITIL 4, was released in February 2019 with the distribution of the ITIL Foundation ITIL 4 Edition book. Coming in at just over 200 pages, there is a lot that is familiar, yet new, when compared with previous editions of ITIL. Although… Read More

By Doug Tedder While many of the core principles of ITIL V3 remain within ITIL 4, ITIL 4 is not just a simple rewrite of ITIL V3.  As I’ve studied ITIL 4, I’ve found three significant things that are different – and better – about ITIL 4. 1.The Guiding Principles are… Read More

By Doug Tedder   Among the new concepts introduced in ITIL 4 are “practices”.   A practice is defined as “a set of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective.”[1]  But don’t confuse a “practice” with a “process”.  Why? Many ITSM implementations based upon ITIL have been overly… Read More

By Doug Tedder Is your change management process broken? If your answer is “yes”, you’re not alone. In my experience, many organizations are dealing with a broken change management process.   What’s broken?  Typically, it’s one or more of the following: Many organizations don’t follow ITIL guidance of obtaining authorization… Read More

In ITIL V3, a service strategy is specific to services themselves e.g., what service will be delivered to meet customer needs.  It is part of the overall IT strategy.  In comparison, the ITSM Strategy defines how the services are managed.  Remember there is an organizational strategy that defines the purpose and… Read More

By Doug Tedder   The long-anticipated release of the ITIL 4 Foundation volume has garnered a lot of attention.  It’s been eight years since the last release of ITIL®[1]. This latest iteration of ITIL still has many concepts that will be familiar to long-time service management practitioners, but also incorporates… Read More

Yes, there is information provided in the MALC class that we believe will be invaluable to you as you launch into ITIL 4.  Here are 3 key things MALC brings to the party: MALC focuses on the interfaces between the 26 processes (integration of the best practices). MALC offers a… Read More

The release of the ITIL® 4 Foundation volume in February 2019 has generated a lot of industry buzz.  This long-awaited update, announced in the fall of 2017, is the first revision to the popular IT Service Management (ITSM) framework in nearly eight years. ITIL 4 contains many concepts that will be… Read More