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Trends in Change Management Maturity

StackSafe, Inc. announced the findings of its IT Ops Research Report: Change Management Maturity – revealing that while many companies display some characteristics of change management maturity, most can still improve a great deal. Here are some of the findings.

 

Roughly a quarter of changes (24 percent) cause problems in production. Interaction between systems and insufficient preproduction testing lead the reasons why changes cause problems in production systems.

 
Figure 1: Top Reasons Why Changes Go Bad

 

Half of all companies report having an automated change management process.

 
Figure 2: Change Management Processes Reported by Surveyed Companies
 

 

About one-fourth of all companies have already adopted ITIL for change management while a significant number of companies have adopted other standards. Almost half of all companies plan to adopt ITIL in the next two years.

 
Figure 3: Company Plans for ITIL Adoption

 

For additional information, please visit www.stacksafe.com.

 


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