Using ArchiMate to Assess COBIT 5 and ITIL Implementations

The assessment of Enterprise Governance of IT (EGIT) mechanisms, such as COBIT and ITIL, is considered highly complex and implies a duplication of resources. The main goal of this research is to reduce the complexity of EGIT mechanisms by facilitating the assessment of these mechanisms when used simultaneously. Organisational stakeholders should be able to easily understand the impact of implementing ITIL on COBIT 5 Processes Performance without being COBIT experts. On the other hand, they should know their organisation’s positioning according to ITIL, even if they just follow COBIT and do not master ITIL. In order to fulfil our goal, we propose a model that uses TIPA for ITIL, COBIT PAM and ArchiMate to analyse the impact of ITIL implementation on COBIT processes performance, and vice-versa. We demonstrate our proposal by analysing the impact of the Incident Management and Request Fulfilment ITIL processes on the COBIT 5 related process

An IT service management literature review: Challenges, benefits, opportunities and implementation practices

Information technology (IT) service management is considered a collection of frameworks that support organizations managing services. The implementation of these kinds of frameworks is constantly increasing in the IT service provider domain. The main objective is to define and manage IT services through its life cycle. However, from observing the literature, scarcely any research exists describing the main concepts of ITSM. Many organizations still struggle in several contexts in this domain, mainly during implementation. This research aims to develop a reference study detailing the main concepts related with ITSM. Thus, a systematic literature review is performed. In total, 47 articles were selected from top journals and conferences. The benefits, challenges, opportunities, and practices for ITSM implementation were extracted, critically analysed, and then discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Maturity model for configuration management

The Configuration Management process is a support process that helps organizations have a better management of their infrastructure. This process is being implemented in a haphazard way, not producing the benefits that it should produce. In an environment where the success depends on the client’s wills, have allowed a significant advance in IT domain, granting a substantial evolution in IT services. However, with all the frameworks provided, many of the organizations have challenges to implement several processes and to design an improvement plan. Maturity Models can be seen as support tools for this kind of task. The main objective of maturity models is to evaluate and improve the organization’s practices by creating an improvement roadmap. Nevertheless, the importance of the conjunction of both concepts, Configuration Management and Maturity Models, has not been justified and developed. The practices overlap, recommended by the Information Technology frameworks, has been a problem for the organizations due to the fact of several enterprises require to have to implement diverse frameworks, bringing an increase of cost and unnecessary redundancy. In this research, with the need of the organizations evaluate their Configuration Management process, was developed an overlapless Maturity Model for the Configuration Management by combining several frameworks, with the support of the Systematic Literature Review method and the Design Science research methodology.O processo de Gestão de Configurações é um processo de suporte que ajuda as organizações a terem uma melhor gestão da sua infraestrutura. É um processo que está a ser implementado de forma aleatória, não produzindo os benefícios que deveria produzir. Num ambiente onde o sucesso depende das vontades dos clientes, permitiu um avanço significativo no domínio das TI, garantindo uma substantiva evolução nos serviços das TI. Contudo, com todas as frameworks fornecidas, muitas das organizações da área das TI têm dificuldades em implementar vários processos e em desenhar um plano de melhoramento. Os Modelos de Maturidade permitem o suporte para este tipo de tarefa. O objetivo principal desta ferramenta é avaliar e melhorar as práticas das organizações, criando um plano de melhoramento e avaliando o estado as-is do processo. Mesmo assim, a importância da conjunção entre estes dois conceitos, Gestão de Configurações e Modelos de Maturidade, nunca foi justificado nem desenvolvido. A sobreposição das práticas, recomendadas pelas frameworks das TI, tem vindo a ser um problema para as organizações. Esta sobreposição traz um acréscimo de despesa e redundância desnecessária, uma vez que as organizações necessitam de implementar diversas frameworks. Nesta investigação, com a necessidade de as organizações das TI avaliarem o seu processo de Gestão de Configurações, foi desenvolvido um Modelo de Maturidade sem sobreposição para Gestão de Configurações combinando diversas frameworks, com o suporte do método Revisão Sistemática da Literatura e da metodologia de investigação Design Science Research

Metodología de Implantación de Modelo de Gestión del Conocimiento Estratégico

Las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMEs) presentan un conjunto de problemas asociados a TI, como la falta de gestión, de capacitación, la poca inversión, una operación deficiente, entre otras; así mismo se encuentran las que no logran aplicar de manera efectiva los marcos y estándares. Por ello, se ha efectuado una profunda revisión sistemática de la literatura (SLR) sobre el problema en el que se encuentran las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMEs) en relación con la cuestión de cómo abordar el cumplimiento de las normas de la Librería de Infraestructuras de Tecnologías de la Información (ITIL). Los resultados encontrados llevaron a establecer el objetivo final de esta tesis, la construcción de un Mapa de Navegación de ITIL v3 con una interfaz amigable y fácil de entender, implementándolo a través del gestor documental de Alfresco Community. Con el fin de evitar recurrir a los exhaustivos manuales de ITIL v3 para llevar a cabo su completo estudio. La implementación ayuda a realizar la consulta y facilita el rastreo del Ciclo de Vida ITIL indicándole al usuario que procesos son los que necesita, cuáles tiene y cuáles faltarían para que su implementación de ITIL sea completa. Es conveniente destacar que el desarrollo del Mapa de Navegación de ITIL v3 y su inclusión en Alfresco Community fue pensando concretamente para las empresas PYMEs, siendo estas las que cuentan con mayores problemas al tratar de gestionar sus servicios. Pretendiendo que estos mecanismos realizados sean de gran ayuda en un futuro a las PYMEs, contando con un proceso que se adapte sus necesidades y que al mismo tiempo este apegado a las buenas prácticas de TI pudiendo gestionar sus servicios, pero sobre todo maximizando su valor y minimizando el riesgo

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen