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Interfacing and Adopting ITIL® and COBIT®
Gary Hardy
Book: £35.00
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About the book
IT is operationally critical and strategic to an enterprise's success. Implementing best professional management practices should be a management imperative. ITIL and COBIT are two of the most widely adopted frameworks for supporting IT governance and management improvement initiatives. When used together as complementary tools they can provide an even more powerful solution to your organization's service management and governance needs.
Key Features
- Highlights how every enterprise needs to tailor these practices to suit their individual requirements and overcome common obstacles ensuring that any improvement initiative is driven by business priorities and requirements
- If you are already using ITIL or COBIT, it will show you how to effectively adopt and utilize these two best practices as complementary tools, resulting in improved IT service capability that is aligned with business and governance requirements
- If you are new to ITIL or COBIT, it will provide a useful overview of the advantages of both practices and how and why they can be used together
- Following the guidance in this publication, you will learn how to realize the value from your IT investments and services, enabling you to achieve cost effective IT solutions, as well as better governance and management of IT services.
Interview with the author
Gary has over 40 years' experience in the IT industry, and is recognized globally as an expert and thought leader in IT governance, value management and performance improvement. He has held director level positions at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen, driving IT management solutions based on ITIL and COBIT. He has also directed the consulting team with one of the UK's leading IT security companies.
Gary has consulted with a wide range of companies in South Africa and overseas, and specializes in how IT can be better managed to deliver value, minimize risk and ensure alignment with real business needs. By applying pragmatic and positive approaches he helps organizations identify and implement strategies that deliver real improvements. He helps companies use COBIT and other best practices to implement better governance, management organization, and processes, as tools for identifying performance improvements.
Gary is a great believer in sharing knowledge and not overly protecting intellectual property. He also believes that a consultant should facilitate client independence, to get the job done themselves wherever possible. The alternative is that IT consultancy just becomes an expensive contractor role with little or no adoption of the techniques.read more >>
