Share this post with • • • • • • • • • • • Oh Great ITIL Wizard, What do you think of these. Are they worth it? It looks to me just something else to update, however, if put to actual and continual use, they could be a tremendous benefit.

Especially for a company that is just starting to implement ITIL best practices. Much appreciated, cmajewsk Dear cma Oh no you don't. Having seen the flak the IT Skeptic copped when he commented on them (), I'd be better off not touching that question. I'll say this though:, you can find even more with judicious Googling, and your software vendor can provide some too (I know the CA subway maps for instance).

This video on YouTube. How to use the ITIL® Process Map for Visio in combination with SharePoint® for publishing your ITIL processes. Some of our customers use Microsoft SharePoint for managing their ITIL process diagrams and sharing them throughout their organizations. The download center provides documents, ITIL® glossaries, process maps, case studies, course overviews, and more for free to anyone who registers with ITIL Training USA.

Given the vagueness of the ITIL books on much of this,, you can also argue that any set of process maps is just one author's opinion. If the very authors of ITIL V3 weren't game to go there maybe there's a reason. The ITIL Wizard. It seems to me that, if you're simply trying to implement according to a view of ITIL, you should consider using the one the vendor provides. That way your practices will totally align with the software you spent so much on.

The vendor no doubt spent a lot of money to get their software 'certified' by someone, else you wouldn't have bought it. Just do what they say and quick as a bunny, Bob's your uncle. Getting your people to consistently execute on those processes is likely to be an issue. But, your processes are all done - you are ITIL-ized.

I'd love to read a case study on this. Besides Kotter's change structure, we've found that the approach suggested by Fair Process - Kim and Mauborgne in HBR (2002) - works very well indeed. We focus on eliciting Why statements from management and staff so that they develop their own motivations - which tends to overcome the fear and status quo bias that prevails. People don't mind change, but they really hate being changed.

We use ITIL and other standards as guides. We are, sometimes, invited in after the initial itilization failed because of focus on process instead of execution. We are increasingly finding that a simultaneous focus on financial transparency and service budgeting helps - because it helps to include the rest of the business and moves towards an outside-in focus instead of the inside-only focus.

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