ITIL Version 5 Foundation Bridge (ITIL5FB) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Learning Objectives

Module 1: Key Concepts of Digital Product and Service Management

  • Differences between ITIL 4 and ITIL (Version 5)
  • Digital products and digital services
  • Product and Service Lifecycle model
  • Value, outcomes, costs, risks
  • Utility, warranty, sustainability, user experience

Module 2: Service Relationships

  • Organisations, service providers, service consumers, and digital product vendors
  • Service relationship types
  • Service offerings and service journeys
  • Roles: sponsor, customer, user
  • Service quality, service levels, and SLAs

Module 3: The ITIL Value System

  • Components of the ITIL Value System
  • Purpose and value co-creation
  • Relationship between value system elements

Module 4: Governance

  • Purpose and role of governance
  • Governance of digital technology
  • Governance activities: evaluate, direct, monitor

Module 5: ITIL Guiding Principles

  • Overview of the seven guiding principles
  • Applying principles in different contexts
  • Interaction of principles and feedback

Module 6: Value Chain and ITIL Management Practices

  • Product and Service Lifecycle activities
  • Discover, design, acquire, build, transition, operate, deliver, support
  • Role of management practices
  • ITIL Official Practice Guides

Module 7: Value Streams: Mapping and Management

  • Core and enabling value streams
  • Value stream mapping
  • Value stream management
  • Workflow optimisation and complexity thinking

Module 8: Continual Improvement

  • Continual Improvement Model
  • Role of continual improvement in ITIL
  • Applying improvement across the value system

Module 9: The ITIL Four Dimensions of Product and Service Management

  • Organisations and people
  • Information and technology
  • Partners and suppliers
  • Value streams and processes
  • External and internal influencing factors

Module 10: ITIL and AI

  • AI, GenAI, and agentic AI concepts
  • AI support across lifecycle activities
  • ITIL AI Capability Model
  • AI governance considerations

Module 11: ITIL and Other Frameworks

  • ITIL and DevOps
  • ITIL and PRINCE2