IT Service Management: Benefits of ITIL Framework

This reflective journal on Celanese case study explains the benefits of ITIL framework for IT service management. It discusses how ITIL can help in risk management, cost transparency, change management, service quality, reliability, and more.

Running head: IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Reflective journal
After the extensive analysis of the Celanese case study, I have concluded that the
Information Technology Infrastructure Library could be described as the set of most
appropriate practices for effective improvement and the creation of the ITSM process. This
structure has been designed in order to help the business in managing the risks and therefore
strengthen customer relations along with the effective establishment of the practices which
are significantly cost efficient and would significantly help the organisation in the
development of the stable environments of the IT for allowing the scaling, growth and the
change. The ITIL which expands more than the improvement of the IT services, helps in the
solving of the issues that are associated with the business. By the balancing of the
adaptability with the thoroughness, several organisations could take the significant benefits
from the ITIL. I have also understood the benefits of the ITIL framework and some of the
common benefits are:
Competitive advantage: The ITIL permits the organisation with the ability of
delivering the significant value to customer. With the significant emphasis on the continual
positive alteration, there is not issue that the organisation are significantly adopting the ITIL.
Moreover, the agile environment permits the effective growth of the businesses and the
improvement of the business processes. Simultaneously, the ITIL balances with the extensive
checking and it keeps the customer satisfaction significantly high and it also provides the
additional feature of warning against any unnecessary risks.
Risk management: When the ITIL is being used for the optimisation of the costs,
there is still the consideration for the quality as well as the risk factors. Factually, each of the
books of the ITIL comprises of the section of the risk. The effective risk analysis and the
activities of the management emerges in several processes. By the effective execution of

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these particular processes, the individual could easily identify, then prioritise as well as
manage the service improvements. This helps the organisations to be significantly prepared
for any kind of damage that might occur in the system of the organisation and in the
processes of the organisation.
Transparency of the cost: deprived of the most appropriate practices in the
organisation, the costs of the service could ramp up as unchecked. The integration of the ITIL
could help the organisation with the effective management of the budgeting, charging and the
accounting requirements. By the effective creation of the metric based strategies, the
significant capital that has been spent on the IT service could be properly accounted for. It
permits the business decision makers to undertake the difficult decisions of the business with
the proper knowledge and the understanding of the business rules and the predict the probable
state of the business in the future. It allows the undertaking of the decisions for making the
difficult cost cutting decisions with the verifiable numbers in consideration.
Enhanced environment for the change: The process of the availability management
could allow the organisation to drive the continual service improvement. The change
management is significant sub-section of the disciplines of the ITIL. It allows the responding
to the altering requirements in the agile manner. The services of the organisation could be
significantly improved and there could be addition of the processes and the services that
would help in the improvement of the processes.
Enhanced service quality as well as the customer satisfaction: The other processes of
the ITIL includes the business relationship management and the service level management. It
could help the teams with the better understanding and then manage the expectations of the
customers. The business relationship are significant for the business who are working in the
service industry and the relations are the main thing that is required for the growth of the

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business. with the proper utilisation of the process of the ITIL availability management, the
ensuring of the IT services are constantly available could be easily guaranteed to the
customer. This helps in increasing the brand awareness and the brand gains significant
growth as the customer loyalty is immensely achieved by the organisation.
Increased reliability: The problem management process and the incident management
process of the ITIL provides the required help to the organisation for the execution of the
blameless major reviews of the incident, perform the elimination of the root causes and then
prevent the major incidents from happening again. The emphasis is placed on the continual
improvement of the organisations for allowing the increased reliable IT services. With the
integration of the ITIL framework in the organisation, the business could gain the significant
business value.
Minimises the disruption: With the aligning of the IT with the business, there is the
major requirement of the IT to be significantly stable and also undisruptive. The ITIL
comprises of the various number of the processes, such as the ITIL incident management as
well as the problem management. It allows the organisations to swiftly restore the services
and then develop the effective workarounds. The ITIL provides the improvement of the
processes and the services are also enhanced.
Aligning of the business and IT: Not only the ITIL is compatible with the frameworks
for the project management, this framework is extensively compatible with the goals of the
business. by the execution of the IT department as the service provider, the ITIL transforms
into the core sector of the business. It helps in the effective integration of the processes and
the services within the organisation that are earlier not integrated in the single platform.
Effective integration of the frameworks of the project management: The major reason
why the ITIL is being extensively integrated and then utilised is the compatibility of the

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framework with the project management. The ITIL is the set of the most appropriate practices
instead of any methodology. It also utilises the common terms and the concepts and this
makes it significantly compatible with the common frameworks like the PMP and the
PRINCE2. The project management of the organisation could be significantly improved and
enhanced for the business and the framework simplifies the business processes.