For many years, itSMF promotes the spread of IT Service Management best practices in Italy and many
organizations have started their journey in order to adopt them. The subject of our Conference is "IT Service
Management: where we are and where we want to go". From one side the goal is to explore the situation in our
country, the level of maturity achieved and the main difficulties found. From the other side the attention will be
focused on the future, to understand which are the next steps that organizations are undertaking to improve their
maturity.

We would like to announce the winner of the inaugural International Whitepaper Competition.

Chapters were invited to submit their own best paper or submission award winner.  We received 19 finalists from a wide range of countries covering many different subject areas within Service Management.

Welcome to our second edition of Board Talk. We are six months into 2010, and the board has been very busy. We welcome your contributions by way of comments, questions, bouquets and brickbats!

The itSMF International will be producing a quarterly magazine with global reach to professionals involved with Service Management.  This publication will be distributed to all chapters for free delivery to every member.

Our judges have been very busy reading through the high quality submissions received for this competition. We are down to three finalists and the final decision will be made by the end of this week (July 2nd).

We apologise for the delayed results…but we want to make sure we get it right!

Kirstie Magowan
Chief Editor

The itSMF 2010 Global Survey attracted 1091 responses - the most were from Australia, with 210 responses. The results will be analysed and sent to Chapters that took part early in July. The winner of the draw for the iPad was Dave Porcelijn of KLM, Schiphol Amsterdam - congratulations, Dave and enjoy your iPad!

itSMF International formally represented the itSMF movement at the Plenary meeting with Colin Rudd and Dennis Ravenelle in attendance in conjunction with multiple itSMF members forming part of their local standards organizations delegations.   Please feel free to download a copy of our liaison report and look out for your invitation to the webcast report on proceedings.

The SFIA Foundation skills update newsletter for June 2010 has been published and is attached to this article as a downloadable PDF

This includes articles on:

• CompTIA - Certifying technicians
• Sustainability with SFIA version 4G
• The Green Challenge
• Skills Management Conference 2010
• Strategy for further success - Board update
• Ian Rickwood retires
• The Last Word

Keith Aldis, the long standing Company Secretary for itSMF International (itSMFI) has announced his intention to step down from its governing body, the International Executive Board (IEB). In an e-mail to the IEB Chairman, David Cannon, in March, 2010, it was agreed that a handover period would take place culminating in Keith's final IEB meeting and thus resignation effective from 31st May 2010.

The 2010 Global survey, which should take less than fifteen minutes to complete, is designed to get a picture of the Service Management market world wide. To take part, please visit:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Global2010

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