ITIL Refresh Timing - Could It Be Worse?

Whoever decided that the whole ITIL market should be restructured at exactly the same time as the refresh/republication of ITIL itself surely has a lot to learn.

This conjures many visions. In the context of the EXIN/BCS-ISEB competitor certification announcement, one such vision may be of a symphony playing on the deck of the Titanic whilst the ship starts to sink. That is clearly taking it to ridiculous lengths, but you see the picture.

Of course, it could be argued that this is just an unfortunate coincidence of timing, and that the two developments just happened to come together simultaneously. I don't buy that for one moment though. Both developments were pro-actively triggered by someone within the OGC. Timing was always under the control of those guys.

At this stage ITIL will simply have to survive the upheaval. But it may well come out at the other end of the process somewhat weaker in stature than it started.

Or does anyone believe that the timing is actually beneficial in some way? The comment facility below is open if you do!