Something seems to be missing from the Continual Service Improvement
(CSI) volume of ITIL v3; ITIL guidance.Service Strategy, Service Design,
Service Transition and Service Operation each lay out guidance on
specific processes, functions and roles that take place within that
Lifecycle domain. However, a review of CSI’s Table of Contents reveals
little in the way of specific IT guidance. Maybe the authors of ITIL v3
should have integrated the concepts of Continual Service Improvement
into the processes of the other IT Service Lifecycle domains.
There I was shooting the breeze with an old mate. The conversation turned to why Madge Networks which I wrote about here went titsup. My analysis is that Madge Networks had a solution and decided to go out and find a problem. They deferred to more incorrect strategic technology choices. The truth of the matter is that when something goes titsup, its not because of one reason only, but a myriad of them all contributing to the negative consequence. There are the immediate or visual ones, which are underpinned by intermediate ones and finally after digging right down, there are the root causes. There is never a singular root cause for anything but I'll present my opinion and encourage everyone else to chip in. All of them together are more likely the reason the company went titsup. As far as technology brainfarts go there is no better example than Kodak . They invented the digital camera that killed them. However, they were so focused on milking people in their leg
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