ITIL® v4 Foundation Course

ITIL® 4 certification candidates will have an understanding of the following:

• A holistic approach to the co-creation of value with customers and other stakeholders in the form of products and services
• The Guiding principles of ITIL® 4
• The four dimensions of service management
• Key concepts from Lean IT, Agile, DevOps, and why these are important to deliver business value
• How ITIL® practices described in ITIL® 4 will maintain the value and importance provided by the current ITIL® processes, whilst at the same time expand to be integrated to different areas of service management and IT, from demand to value.

What is ITIL® 4?

ITIL® v4 will help businesses navigate the new technological era, commonly known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The speed of current breakthroughs is disrupting almost every industry on a global scale. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is marked by emerging technology in fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, The Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, autonomous vehicles and much more.

ITIL® 4 will provide a practical and flexible basis to support organizations on their journey into the new world of digital transformation by helping them align their human, digital and physical resources to compete within the modern complex landscape and adopt this emerging technologies into their IT
operations.

The context of ITIL®, with the release of ITIL® 4 is now much bigger, with an emphasis on the business and technology world, how it works today, and how it will work in the future with Agile, DevOps and digital transformation.

ITIL® 4 will be much more relevant to developers, practitioners and businesses as a whole through promoting a holistic view of delivering products and services.

Right from ITIL® Foundation level, ITIL® 4 will emphasise the importance of collaboration, transparency, automating where possible, and working holistically.

ITIL® 4 retains many of the core elements that makes ITIL® so valuable to individuals and organizations today. Change is a constant state and organizations are struggling to navigate it. ITIL® 4 is best practice that supports organizations in navigating this ongoing change.

ITIL® 4 is the next iteration that incorporates all of the best things from ITIL® as it is known today and expands IT and service operations to a new level. Moving from traditional process lead delivery, ITIL® 4 supports faster, quality and value driven delivery for people and organizations.