IEB Update

Following the AGM and Chapter meeting in Washington in 2011 and a handover meeting last week the International Executive Board (IEB) has now appointed Marianna Billington as their chair for the coming year.

Marianna spent the last year as the IEB's vice-chair and has also held the publications portfolio for the last 2 years.

The remaining directors Portfolios are as follows:

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of our International Magazine "At Your Service".  Please download and share, contributions for future editions can be sent to kirstie.magowan@itsmfi.org.

itSMF International is pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Whitepaper Competition. This year's event was won by Peter Brooks from itSMF South Africa with a paper entitled "Business Analysis and Service Management - How BABOK complements ITIL"

The entries this year were of a very high standard and I would like to thank our judging panel for the efforts made to select the winning paper.

Peter has received an iPad2 for his efforts. The paper is available here for download.

Welcome to the August/September issue of At Your Service the official magazine of itSMF International.

Submissions for upcoming issues are welcome, please contact Chief Editor, Kirstie Magowan by email
kirstie.magowan@itsmfi.org

Dear itSMF Chapters.

After the meeting in Amsterdam earlier this year I was asked by a few to keep you informed of the ITIL update. Below is all of the information we have available at present.

Please find the below details with all the additional information you will require for the ITIL update that will release on the 29th of July. The high resolution jacket images have now been uploaded onto the resellers extranet and the table (in attached file) included additional information on page counts and weights.

International Executive Board - Elections 2011

For General Distribution July 2011

1. Introduction

This communiqué to Chapter Leaders is designed to provide you with notification that the Board of itSMF has confirmed that its Annual General Meeting is to take place on 25th September at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Centre in National Harbour, Maryland, USA.

Further details will be issued, in line with the statutory notification process together with voting slips and resolutions, shortly.

2. Election

ITIL 2011 Edition, the updated version of the ITIL Lifecycle Suite, will be available on 29th July.

Welcome to the June 2011 edition of 'At Your Service'.  We hope you enjoy the articles and look forward to contributions to our next edition, due to publish in August 2011