We found only few studies that study the success factors that affect the implementation
of ITIL; even fewer researchers studied the adoption of ITIL. Sarvenaz Mehravani
and Haghighinasab (2011) is one of the very few studies which examined the effect
of CSFs of implementing ITIL on the adoption factors represented by the TAM. This
study had synthesized seven key success factors for implementing ITIL including: top
management support, communication and cooperation, training and competence of
involved stakeholder in ITIL project, change management and organizational culture,
project management and governance, ITIL process implementation and applied
technology, monitoring and evaluation. The study had used TAM to study the
adoption of ITIL. TAM was developed by Davis (1989) and Davis et al. (1989) and
it simply posits that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are major
determinants for a user’s intention to use a technology.