ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is a best practice framework for IT service management, initially published in the mid-1980s and updated over the years, with the latest version, ITIL 2011, focusing on the service lifecycle. The framework emphasizes five phases: service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation, and continual service improvement, facilitating alignment with business objectives and enhancing efficiency. Syzygal offers professional training and consulting services based on ITIL best practices, aiming to improve organizational capabilities and deliver real value across various sectors.

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ITIL (IT INFRASTRUCTURE LIBRARY) is a best prac-
tice framework for IT Service Management. It is
owned and operated by the UK Government and was first
published in the mid-1980’s. Various updates occurred
throughout the 1990’s but the framework remained largely
within the public sector.
In 2000 an updated version was published (v2) and was
quickly recognised as relevant for ICT departments in all
industry sectors. ITIL gained in popularity on a global
scale and in 2007 a new version, recognising the lifecycle
of IT services, was published as v3. This also saw a move
towards content development and management by an
independent group of technology practitioners, repre-
sented globally and from diverse industry sectors; this
groups is the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF). The
current version of ITIL was released in 2011 and along with
minor amendments and updates the naming convention
changed to ITIL: 2011.
ITIL REPRESENTS NEARLY 3 DECADES OF COLLECTIVE
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE; AS
SUCH IT IS NOW RECOGNISED AS THE WORLD-WIDE DE-
FACTO STANDARD FOR IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT.
The ITIL: 2011 Service Lifecycle is often shown in a cyclical
diagram with five distinct phases that represent the stages
in the lifecycle.
• SERVICE STRATEGY focuses on the thinking processes
and can be seen as the‘Why?’of the lifecycle. Why is
this IT organisation here? Why should these custom-
ers/users buy our services? Why do our services meet
their needs?
• SERVICE DESIGN focuses on the holistic design of
services and performance, often seen as the‘How?’
of the lifecycle. How should we design our services?
How will it fit into our existing architectures? How will
we resource the build, deployment and management?
How will it meet our customer’s needs?
• SERVICE TRANSITION focuses on the stability of the
live environments and can be seen as the‘When?’and
‘Who?’of the lifecycle. When should we transition into
live? Who will be involved in the deployment? Who
will be affected by the new/amended service?
• SERVICE OPERATION focuses on day-to-day delivery of
IT Services; it can be seen as the engine room of IT and
very much the‘What?’of the service lifecycle. What
performance levels do we need to deliver? What activi-
ties need to be done to keep services live and healthy?
What if something goes wrong or a user needs help?
• CONTINUAL SERVICE IMPROVEMENT focuses on all
activities in the lifecycle to ensure we have a continual
review and improvement culture. It can be seen as the
‘Where?’of the service lifecycle. Where do we see life-
cycle difficulties? Where are we against our strategy?
Where can we make improvements?
Each phase contains a set of closely related processes that
unify and enhance phase activity to support the required
organisational outcomes.
ITIL describes processes, procedures, tasks, and checklists
which are not organisation-specific, but can be applied
by an organisation for establishing integration with the
organisation’s strategy, delivering value, and maintaining
a minimum level of competency. It allows the organisation
to establish a baseline from which it can plan, implement,
and measure. It is used to demonstrate compliance and to
measure on-going improvement for organisations of all
sizes and types.
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Many organisations question how ITIL can practically help
to improve efficiency and deliver real value. The following
are some real life examples of ITIL benefits:
•• One organisation identified that most of the cost of
delivering IT support came from resolving customer
issues. By adopting ITIL approaches to knowledge-
based information and self-help, it was able to reduce
costs of support by over 75% whilst increasing user
satisfaction, and improving user productivity.
•• Another medium-sized IT service organisation in-
vested €2.6m in a two-year programme to improve its
IT service management. It recouped the investment
within the first year, and achieved annual savings of
€3.5m mainly through rationalising unused and under-
used resources. It also reduced IT incident resolution
times and improved user satisfaction by over 11%.
From a business perspective, the adoption of ITIL practices
by IT service providers ensures many benefits including:
•• IT services which align better with business priorities
and objectives, meaning that the business achieves
more in terms of its strategic objectives
•• Known and manageable IT costs, ensuring the busi-
ness plans its finances better
•• Increased business productivity, efficiency and ef-
fectiveness, because IT services are more reliable and
work better for the business users
•• Financial savings from improved resource manage-
ment and reduced re-work
•• More effective change management, enabling the
business to keep pace with change and drive business
change to its advantage
•• Improved user and customer satisfaction with IT
ITIL (IT INFRASTRUCTURE LIBRARY) is a best practice frame-
work for IT Service Management. It is owned and operated by
the UK Government and was first published in the mid-1980’s.
Various updates occurred throughout the 1990’s but the
framework remained largely within the public sector. In 2000
an updated version was published (v2) and was quickly recog-
nised as relevant for ICT departments in all industry sectors.
ITIL gained in popularity on a global scale and in 2007 a new
version, recognising the lifecycle of IT services, was published
as v3. This also saw a move towards content development and
management by an independent group of technology prac-
titioners, represented globally and from diverse industry sec-
tors; this groups is the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF).
The current version of ITIL was released in 2011 and along
with minor amendments and updates the naming convention
changed to ITIL: 2011.
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TheITIL®servicelifecycle
The ITIL: 2011 Service Lifecycle is often shown in a cyclical
diagram with five distinct phases that represent the stages
in the lifecycle.
• SERVICE STRATEGY focuses on the thinking processes
and can be seen as the‘Why?’of the lifecycle. Why is
this IT organisation here? Why should these custom-
ers/users buy our services? Why do our services meet
their needs?
• SERVICE DESIGN focuses on the holistic design of
services and performance, often seen as the‘How?’
of the lifecycle. How should we design our services?
How will it fit into our existing architectures? How will
we resource the build, deployment and management?
How will it meet our customer’s needs?
• SERVICE TRANSITION focuses on the stability of the
live environments and can be seen as the‘When?’and
‘Who?’of the lifecycle. When should we transition into
live? Who will be involved in the deployment? Who
will be affected by the new/amended service?
• SERVICE OPERATION focuses on day-to-day delivery of
IT Services; it can be seen as the engine room of IT and
very much the‘What?’of the service lifecycle. What
performance levels do we need to deliver? What activi-
ties need to be done to keep services live and healthy?
What if something goes wrong or a user needs help?
• CONTINUAL SERVICE IMPROVEMENT focuses on all
activities in the lifecycle to ensure we have a continual
review and improvement culture. It can be seen as the
‘Where?’of the service lifecycle. Where do we see life-
cycle difficulties? Where are we against our strategy?
Where can we make improvements?
Viewing IT service in a lifecycle allows a more holistic and
joined-up view of how IT Service Providers deliver value to
their organisation and help them achieve their objectives.

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