Swami

The future of IT is Governance, Service and Assurance: The Seventh Vision revised

skeptic — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:50:07 -0600

Several readers of The IT Skeptic have asked where is the IT Swami and in particular where were his New Year's predictions for 2008? Now we can reveal all.

Visions of the Future of ITIL: the IT Swami's Seventh and Final Vision

skeptic — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:42:25 -0600

Now, the final of the IT Swami's mid-year Visions of the Future of ITIL. Previously we had six other visions starting with the First.

Here is the ultimate seventh Vision:

Visions of the Future of ITIL: Third Vision

skeptic — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:00:39 -0600

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

Visions of the Future of ITIL: Second Vision

skeptic — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:10:27 -0600

The IT Swami gives us his mid-year Visions of the Future of ITIL. Yesterday we had the First Vision. This is his Second Vision:

Visions of the Future of ITIL: First Vision

skeptic — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:29:08 -0600

On a freezing Southern midwinter solstice night last month, beside a driftwood bonfire on wild Pukerua Bay beach, New Zealand, the IT Swami gazed into the future to give us his “Southern New Year” predictions for the IT Infrastructure Library. I was shivering as I wrote so some of my notes are a little illegible but here is the first of his visions that I recorded:

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The IT Swami predicts 2007

skeptic — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:53:51 -0700

The IT Skeptic takes the day off, doing what skeptics do for fun (don’t ask). In his place we have his alter-ego the IT Swami kicking off the New Year with some predictions for IT in the coming twelve months.

In Service Management:

The itSMF, EXIN and ASEB – all snubbed by OGC - will drive the new ISO20000 industry.

The ITIL 3 books will be good. Sales will be brisk. They will be greeted with acclaim in most quarters and criticism in a few (including this site, you can bet). One country in Europe will be less enthusiastic.