ITIL4 Foundation (ILFN4)

This course provides IT leaders, practitioners, support staff and staff interfacing with the organisation’s digital and information systems functions with a practical understanding of the key concepts, common language, principles and practices that enables successful management of modern IT-enabled services. It also prepares delegates for the ITIL Foundation Certificate Examination. The course is based on the ITIL4 best practice service value system featured in the latest 2019 guidelines.


Target Audience

This course is aimed at all levels of IT professional and those involved in designing, building, delivering and managing modern digital products and services.


Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course


Course Objectives

The course will help students to understand:

  • Key IT service management concepts
  • How ITIL guiding principles can help and organization to adopt and adapt service management 
  • The 4 dimensions of service management
  • The purpose and components of the service value system
  • The activities of the service value chain and how the interconnect
  • Know the purpose of key ITIL practices
  • Preparation to sit the ITIL4 foundation examination
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Course Modules

  • IT Service Management definitions; Service, Utility, Warranty, Customer, User, Service management, Sponsor
  • Key concepts of value creation
  • Key concepts of service relationships; service offering; service provision; service consumption; service relationship management
  • The nature, use and interaction of 7 ITIL guiding principles; Focus on value; Start where you are; Progress iteratively with feedback; Collaborate and promote visibility; Think and work holistically; Keep it simple and practical; Optimize and automate
  • The 4 dimensions of service management; Organizations and people; Information and technology; Partners and suppliers; Value streams and processes   
  • The ITIL service value system
  • The service value chain, its inputs and outputs, and its role in supporting value streams
  • Service value chain elements; Plan, Improve, Engage, Design & transition, Obtain / Build, Deliver and support
  • Detail of how the following ITIL practices support the service value chain: - Continual Improvement (including continual improvement model); Change control; Incident management; Problem Management; Service request management; Service desk; Service level management
  • The purpose of the following ITIL practices: - Information security management; Relationship management; Supplier management; Service configuration management;   IT asset management; Business analysis; Deployment management; Monitoring and event management; Release management