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The seven ITIL guiding principles are intended to be considered together and applied in a way that fits the circumstances. Assessing the relevance of each principle enables an organization to use the appropriate balance of guidance for the decision at hand.

Governance is the mechanism by which an organization is directed and controlled. Within the ITIL Service Value System, it provides organizational direction, oversight, and control rather than performing day-to-day operations or prescribing detailed service-design guidance.

ITIL Guiding Principles provide broad direction for decision-making and governance, including maintaining a focus on value for stakeholders. Continual improvement is an organization-wide activity that helps ensure services, practices, and the value system continue to meet stakeholder expectations. These elements therefore support governance principles and stakeholder-aligned improvement.

A value stream is a series of steps that an organization takes to enable value for consumers through its products and services.

Collecting feedback and measuring current service response times establishes a baseline of the organization’s existing performance. In the continual improvement model, this baseline assessment is the “Where are we now?” step.

In ITIL, a change is the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could directly or indirectly affect products and services. Change enablement manages such product and service changes by assessing risk, authorizing them, and managing their schedule.

The Organizations and people dimension covers organizational structure, roles, culture, and capabilities, ensuring these support the organization’s strategic objectives.

ITIL management practices are integrated with the service value chain: multiple practices support and enable each value chain activity, and practices can contribute across different activities and value streams.

Partners and suppliers is the ITIL 4 dimension that covers relationships with external organizations involved in creating and delivering value, including suppliers, partners, and other third parties.

A service consumer procures and uses services to achieve desired outcomes. Service providers deliver services, vendors supply products, and sponsors provide authorization or funding.

The ITIL AI Capability Model helps organizations assess AI readiness and develop the organizational capabilities needed to apply AI effectively. It supports structured, adaptable adoption of AI rather than prescribing technologies or measuring service-level performance.

A basic supplier relationship is typically transactional and uses standardized, off-the-shelf services offered to customers rather than customized or strategic innovation-focused services.

A value stream is a series of steps an organization undertakes to create and deliver products and services to consumers, thereby enabling value.

Value streams and processes address how work flows and is managed in different complexity contexts. In a complex context, outcomes can be understood only in retrospect, so an experimental, bounded approach is used to test hypotheses and learn safely rather than relying on fixed procedures. PeopleCert: ITIL (Version 5): A Value Stream Perspective

The number and impact of deployment errors measure the safety and effectiveness of moving new or changed service components into the live environment. A successful transition minimizes deployment failures and their business or service impact.

Sustainability means that a service or product continues to satisfy requirements for environmental responsibility throughout its lifecycle. This aligns digital and IT services with environmental goals.

Thinking and working holistically means viewing a service and its components as an interconnected system, recognizing patterns in how system elements interact so needs and impacts can be anticipated.

Digital product and service lifecycle work includes discovering needs and opportunities, acquiring required resources or components, and building products or services. Agreeing is not itself a lifecycle activity.

A release is a version of a product, service, or other configuration item that is made available for use.

Utility is the functionality provided by a product or service to satisfy a particular need; it represents fitness for purpose.

Transition activity is successful when changes are implemented with minimal adverse effect on live service availability and performance. The negative impact caused by changes therefore directly measures transition effectiveness.

External suppliers can provide specialized capabilities, expertise, technology, or capacity that an organization cannot readily develop internally. Oversight, governance, and internal management remain necessary when using suppliers.

Value streams can include suppliers and other external parties when their activities contribute to creating or delivering value. They are not intended to exclude suppliers by default.

The four service-level metric categories are utility, warranty, sustainability, and experience. Governance directs and oversees the organization; it is not a service-level metric category.