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September 28, 2007

ITIL with a Twist: Apply Change Control Tools First to Ensure ROI

Flip your approach and apply change control tools first to attain ITIL ROI

We’ve been giving many presentations on the ITIL 3 topics, emphasizing that change control tools are the key to achieving a significant ROI. 

Change is a leading cause of both downtime and compliance headaches so it’s not surprising that change management, based on ITIL best practices, will be among the top IT investments over the next 18 months. Unfortunately many organizations that invest in change management projects struggle to meet ROI goals.  While change management systems help to automate risk assessment, planning and associated workflows, they lack the ability to automate control at the infrastructure level. Over time, process results begin to diverge from expectations and ROI suffers. 

Contact me directly to get our ITIL white paper to learn how you can “flip” the typical methodology and applying automated controls up front can ensure that results and goals converge quickly - and stay that way.

Have a great weekend everyone!

by
Erin Swanson, Marketing
Eswanson@solidcore.com

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Comments
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Change Management Maturity

ITIL Impact on Key Business Benefits

Agree with your assertion that change is a leading cause of downtime. My company recently took a closer look at “change management maturity” to better understand how certain organizations gain significant business benefits from their change management process. Our research looks at how more mature activities – automating change management, regularly scheduling changes, adopting ITIL change management processes, etc. – help companies limit the problems that changes cause in production. They can also lower the percentage of IT staffs that must support the change management function. The study is at www.stacksafe.com/research

 

Would also be interested in a copy of your whitepaper.

 
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