Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) provides a framework to provide IT related services and the interaction of IT staff with users, and is often related with the British Government’s Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL offers a set of “best practices” for managing IT services and is one of the most widely accepted approaches to IT service management in the wo...

Currently, IT (Information Technology) departments are the most complex parts of organizations and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is considered the most widely used IT framework in them. This De-facto standard is intended to support IT units of organizations to implement quality based processes in an effort to improve the quality of IT services. ITIL, it self is consisting...

Purpose – Although various practices to facilitate organizational change are proposed in the literature, very little is known about how these practices impact on ITIL adoptions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address this gap in the literature by offering insights on how change management practices impact on levels of ITIL compliance. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory r...

ITIL ist in vielen Unternehmen ein etabliertes und gelebtes Framework. Aber wie ist der Status Quo an den Hochschulen? Die IT an den meisten Hochschulen ist ebenfalls einerseits Kostenzwängen unterworfen, muss aber andererseits mehr leisten denn je. Ist die Einführung von ITIL ein Allheilmittel? Dies soll in einer Diskussionsrunde vertieft werden. Inhalt des Tutorials Viele Hochschulen setzen s...

Information technologies (IT) have become a key factor for the optimal implementation of business processes, to a degree in which the IT department becomes a service provider for the other departments in the organization. In Mexico several business have adopted the ITIL services standard created by the Office of Government Commerce of the United Kingdom. ITIL is a compendium of best practices o...

Information Technology (IT) now plays a fundamental role in most organizations. This increased responsibility and consequent impact in business performance leads to a higher demand and tighter control on IT Departments. To respond to these requirements, IT Departments have been implementing Service Management frameworks, with ITIL currently being the most popular. However, many ITIL projects fa...

BACKGROUND Due to the strained financial situation in the healthcare sector, hospitals and other healthcare providers are facing an increasing pressure to improve their efficiency and to reduce costs. These trends challenge health care organizations to introduce innovative information technology (IT) based supportive processes. To guarantee that IT supports the clinical processes perfectly, IT ...

Senior management involvement, organisational commitment and group efficacy are expected to have a positive impact on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) implementation benefits. Specifically, more involvement, commitment and efficacy should produce greater achievement. Analysing data from a survey of 446 Nordic ITIL experts, this paper examines the relationships between these ...

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework outlining best practice in ICT Service Management. To date, ITIL is the only comprehensive, non-proprietary, publicly available guideline for ICT Service Management (Pink Elephant, 2002). Although the OGC claims that the use of ITIL improves Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality, this was not proved to date but rather i...