Previous studies on ITIL adoption in specific regions indicate wide variation in both awareness and deployment of ITIL processes. Although most of Hochstein, Zarnekow, and Brenner’s [2005b] respondents indicated they intended to deploy all the ITIL processes, priority was given to adopting operational processes. A similar pattern was observed in surveys conducted at itSMF Australian National Conferences [Cater-Steel, Tan, and Toleman,2009]. However there has been no large-scale study to date on the limited deployment of ITIL processes. While some of the processes are widely adopted, others are rarely used, raising the first research question:
RQ1: Are operational level ITIL processes more widely adopted compared to tactical/strategic level ITIL
processes?