Tracing the evolution of service management
Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, the international not-for-profit organization promoting service management, known as IT Service Management Forum (itSMF), has held annual conferences on the subject of service management. Many countries have their own chapter (for example, itSMF USA), where interested parties gather as a collective to present and discuss the subject of service management. Even within a specific country’s chapter, there is the concept of Local Interest Groups (LIGs), where smaller instances or segments gather in the interest of furthering their knowledge of service management. This was a brilliant arrangement, in that it significantly furthered the spread and adoption of formal service management capabilities within these countries. In the United States, of note was the significant adoption of ITIL® by large Midwest-based corporations, resulting in permeation east, west, and south. The establishment of LIGs...