Research question
This study sheds light on the challenges and breakthroughs
met by QH during their ITIL project and confirms a set of success
factors on which organisations should focus at the start of a
centralised ITSM implementation project. The CSF concept is
used to examine the following research question: what factors
influence the success of implementing IT service management? To
this end, the CSFs from the work of Somers and Nelson [41], Parr
and Shanks [29], Sumner [42] and Cater-Steel and Tan [5] were
analysed for recurring factors, as summarised in the Appendix. In
the analysis the list of 22 CSFs from Somers and Nelson’s study
were first distilled into groups of common themes and the resulting
five groups were labelled as follows: corporate management,
vendors, organisational change (people and processes), project
governance and execution, and ERP software. The CSFs from Parr
and Shanks, Sumner and Cater-Steel and Tan were then mapped
to these five groups. Next, the ERP software-specific CSFs were
eliminated as they are irrelevant to ITSM implementation. The
results from the 2005 national itSMF Australia survey [5] were
also considered in determining the following candidate list of five
strategic CSFs for further evaluation: senior management support,
project champion, relationship with vendors, change in corporate
culture, and project governance and execution.