Service management & delivery

ITIL certification for service managers

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ITIL and IT training: why bother?

Time is precious and jobs are tough to get. Why go to all the time and trouble of acquiring things like an ITIL paper? Will it actually help your career? We take a balanced look at the pros and cons of building up a service management skills portfolio.

5 steps to achieving great supplier management

Knowing how to manage internal and third-party suppliers is critical to any IT organisation. 

Nine tips for tackling cultural changes when adopting ITIL

Cultural change can often be the hardest part of an ITIL project, so it’s important to begin planning how changes in IT management will be encouraged, supported and measured. 

A guide to configuration management

Configuration management is a set of processes that define how your organisation manages changes to the configuration of elements within the IT architecture. 

Navigating the move from ITIL V2 to V3

We explain how alternative certification paths that don't depend on starting from scratch should soon be here to ease your fears and may even help you achieve that coveted ITIL Master status.

Why good customer service matters

We provide a handy route map to explain all you need to know to get the best of Service Desk certification and your ITIL practice.