The ITSM focuses on critical, competitive issues such as:
- Improving the “audit-ability” of IT
- Improving customer care systems and processes
- Making multi-vendor operations a reality
- Smoothly integrating legacy systems
- Making the management of distributed computing practical and cost-effective
- Enhanced management tool requirements, selection and implementation
- Improving service level agreements
- Improving organizational effectiveness
- Evaluation and improvement of operational practices
- More effective identification and implementation of management tools
- Clearly defined IT roles and responsibilities



