The IT Skeptic - Comments for "ITSM is over half a million people"

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buraddo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:59:18 +0000

I am sure ITSMf will see these figures and say "the market is so big, we need to raise the price!" :)

Brad Vaughan

A very big market indeed

deaf-llama — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:14:25 +0000

Moneywise here are some recent estimates before the economic slowdown:

Datamonitor Report 2008: Global market for ITSM training and consultancy by 2010 will be $14 Billion.
CCID Consulting 2008: China ITSM market expected to be 2B yuan (around $300M) by 2009.

That's a heck of a lot of ITIL, COBIT, ISO20000, ISO27001, Six Sigma ... books...
...So, Skep, I'd suggest keeping this blog running, plus introduce a Mandarin version of Real ITSM, too?

Link

aroos — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:29:00 +0000

I opened my new website yesterday at http://pohjoisviitta.wordpress.com/ and yes, it has a link to your site. Unfortunately you need to polish your Finnish a bit before you find it.

PS My guess is that it 70.000 books, cd's or online copies. People tend to report the max number.

such a small number

buraddo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:20:57 +0000

Skep.. You are doing well if you have 10K from 500K.. 500K is such a small top line number though... The number of IT professionals globally whose jobs rely on the processes covered under ITIL should be orders of magnitude larger..

I compare this to the millions of downloads a single software product gets in the open source world and it dwarfs these figures.. People and companies using IT is such a larger community.. Is ITSM meeting its goals by just addressing small market segment. Is it because of the restrictive structure and eliteist nature of the community that is dampening adoption..

All interesting concepts..

Brad Vaughan