The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Crap Factoid Alert: "Two-thirds of companies around the globe are using ITIL""

Tipping Points...

kengon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:56:25 +0000

Skep,

Indeed. My comment was a bit tounge-in-cheek, eh? Surely someone of your level of skep-ticity can appreciate that! ;-P

Still, for the serious part of what I'd posted, there is an element of building a marketing reality (likely story) that such craptoids are the mortar for.

I've seen numerous PowerPoint decks generated (some farily recently resulting in direct questions to me) about how to get in the ITIL game. You and I shall disagree about vendors not getting blown up. It has and does happen.

In a sense, these are a bit weapon-like, in that if appropriate caution isn't taken and due diligence not applied, there will be consequences... the cumulative effects could be lethal.

kengon

Vendors use more authorative data for their own business decisio

skeptic — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:53:47 +0000

Vendors use more authorative data for their own business decisions. they're the ones manufacturing dynamite not the ones getting blown up!

It was on the web, it must be true...

kengon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:58:46 +0000

I can see it now. Company X uses this as a data point to drive the business case for a new product and service development for this "exploding market"... along with a new sales/marketing camapign. Use whichever interpretation of exploding that makes you happy! ;-)

kengon

Thankyou

skeptic — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:53:23 +0000

Thankyou for that.
See http://www.itskeptic.org/node/527

It must be the season

Visitor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:04:14 +0000