The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of practices and a framework for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of the business.[1]

ITIL describes processes, procedures, tasks, and checklists which are neither organization-specific nor technology-specific. It was designed to allow organizations to establish a baseline.

It is used to demonstrate compliance and to measure improvements. There is no formal independent third-party compliance assessment available to demonstrate ITIL compliance in an organization. Certification in ITIL is only available to individuals and not organizations. Since 2021, ITIL has been owned by PeopleCert.[2]

History

Responding to growing dependence on IT, the UK Government's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) in the 1980s developed a set of recommendations designed to standardize IT management practices across government functions, built around a process model-based view of controlling and managing operations often credited to W. Edwards Deming and his plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle.[3]

  • In 1989, ITIL was released. It grew to a series of 30 books that recommended and provided IT best practices that focused on and catered for client and business needs.
  • In 1993, the examination institute EXIN developed the first certification scheme for ITIL.[4]
  • In April 2001, the CCTA was merged into the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), an office of the UK Treasury.[5]
  • In 2001, ITIL version 2 was released.
  • In May 2007, ITIL version 3 was released (also known as the ITIL Refresh Project) consisting of 26 processes and functions, now grouped into only 5 volumes, arranged around the concept of Service lifecycle structure. ITIL Version 3 is now known as ITIL 2007 Edition.
  • In 2009, the OGC officially announced that ITIL Version 2 certification would be withdrawn and launched a major consultation as per how to proceed.[6]
  • In July 2011, ITIL 2011 was released.
  • In 2013, ITIL was acquired by AXELOS, a joint venture between Capita and the UK Cabinet Office.[7]
  • In February 2019, ITIL version 4 was released. The main changes were: to consider end-to-end Service Management from holistic and value-centric perspectives, to align with philosophies such as Agile, DevOps, and Lean, and to reduce the emphasis on IT Service Management in favor of general Service Management.[8]
  • In 2009 and 2011, researchers investigated the benefits of the ITIL implementation.[9][10]
  • In June 2021, PeopleCert completed the acquisition of Axelos.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "it-infrastructure-library". www.ibm.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "PeopleCert completes Axelos acquisition". PeopleCert. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  3. ↑ David Clifford; Jan van Bon (2008). Implementing ISO/IEC 20000 Certification: The Roadmap. ITSM Library. Van Haren Publishing. ISBN 978-90-8753-082-2.
  4. ↑ "EXIN Milestones". EXIN.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "OGC - - CCTA Re-direct Page". Office of Government Commerce (UK). 1 April 2003. Archived from the original on 22 April 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2005.
  6. ↑ "ITIL". Office of Government Commerce (UK). 13 July 2009. Archived from the original on 9 September 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  7. ↑ White, Sarah K.; Greiner, Lynn (18 January 2019). "What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library". CIO. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "ITIL 4". IT Process Wiki. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Marrone, Mauricio; Kolbe, Lutz M. (15 January 2011). "Impact of IT Service Management Frameworks on the IT Organization". Business & Information Systems Engineering. 3 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1007/s12599-010-0141-5. ISSN 1867-0202.
  10. ↑ Pollard, Carol; Cater-Steel, Aileen (14 April 2009). "Justifications, Strategies, and Critical Success Factors in Successful ITIL Implementations in U.S. and Australian Companies: An Exploratory Study". Information Systems Management. 26 (2): 164–175. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.631.8883. doi:10.1080/10580530902797540. ISSN 1058-0530. S2CID 14096708.
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