Information Technology Service Management and Opportunities for Information Systems Curricula

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Author(s): Sue Conger (University of Dallas, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 10
Source title: Information Systems and New Applications in the Service Sector: Models and Methods
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): John Wang (Montclair State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-138-6.ch010

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Information Systems / Business Science Reference / Electronic Services & Service Science

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Historically, information systems (IS) programs have taught two of the three areas of information technology (IT) management: strategy and management, and applications development. Academic programs have ignored the third area, IT operations. IT operations management is becoming increasingly important as it is recognized as consuming as much as 90% of the IT budget and as acquisition of software becomes more prevalent than development of custom applications. Along with the shift of management focus to IT operations, standards such as the IT infrastructure library (ITIL) have been adopted by businesses to guide the development of processes for IT operations that facilitate evolution to IT service management. This shift to servitizing IT management, creates an opportunity for IS programs to align with business practices by innovating in the teaching of IT service management. Several methods of incorporating ITSM material into educational programs are explored.

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