Visions of the Future of ITIL: Fourth Vision

The IT Swami gives us his mid-year Visions of the Future of ITIL. Previously we had the First, Second, and Third Visions. This is the Fourth:

Swami: These then are my visions of today: the crowd in the desert, the gorilla and the pig, and the closed castle. Now that I have freed my mind of them, and with some difficulty restored my inner balance, let us be examining the fate of the ITIL...

Goodness gracious! This current agitation is making it very difficult to find only one vision of the future, so I can see three fates awaiting the ITIL: one pleasant, two not so.

First fate: the ITIL walks the road of knowledge, seeking enlightenment. I see the ITIL achieving that and rising up into the light to be born again as something better, fuller, more powerful. Many similar bodies rise together and whirl around to become one, the One that comes after. I see it doing greater good for greater numbers. Crowds come to its doors begging for help and many are healed. How great is the joy and the glory!

Certainly the potential is there for a synthesis or at least a greater consistency and synergy of ITIL, ISO20000, COBIT, CMMI, SixSigma, PMBOK, Prince2, ASL, ISO27001 and/or many other bodies of knowledge. Much is the waving of hands and nodding of heads. Little is the progress.

Next: Fifth Vision

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