ITIL® Strategy (Version 5)
Learn to strategically align technology and business in VUCA environments on this immersive Firebrand course.

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itilstrat
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What you’ll learn
This ITIL® Strategy (Version 5) course helps you develop the ability to act with clarity and confidence by aligning technology investments with business strategy and outcomes, in line with ITIL guidance.
Designed for leaders navigating digital, organisational, and AI-driven change, this course helps you ensure that your company's digital products and services deliver measurable value while embedding a culture of trust, agility, and continual value co-creation in a rapidly evolving environment. The course focuses on important guidance on developing, implementing, and continually adjusting strategy in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
At the end of this course, you will sit the official ITIL® Strategy exam, covered by the Firebrand Certification Guarantee. Upon passing this exam, you will become certified.
At Firebrand, we are proud to be an official ITIL® Accredited Training Organisation (ATO). By studying with us, you will access the latest official courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.
This course will help you:
Develop your existing strategic capabilities with clearer governance and communication
Improve the performance of key parts of the Service Value System (SVS), particularly governance, while considering all four dimensions of service management
Ensure your strategic capabilities support your company's vision and mission
Provide you the clarity and confidence to make balanced, sustainable decisions while maintaining focus on purpose and values
What you’ll learn
ITIL® and The Swirl Logo™ are registered trademarks of PeopleCert, used under permission of PeopleCert Ltd, 2026. All rights reserved.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for:
Leaders with strategic responsibility at all levels of the organization
Professionals with tactical responsibility for implementing strategy
Professionals with operational responsibility for supporting strategic objectives
Curriculum
4 domains- ●1.1 Key concepts of ITIL
- ●1.2 Key concepts of ITIL Strategy
- ●1.3 Strategy across the ITIL Four Dimensions
- ●2.1 Introduction to the ITIL Strategy Management Model
- ●2.2 Strategy development
- ●2.3 Strategy implementation
- ●2.4 Sustainable strategy management
- ●3.1 Leadership
- ●3.2 Communication
- ●3.3 Innovation
- ●3.4 AI governance
- ●3.5 Organizational Change Management (OCM)
- ●3.6 Digital ethics
- ●3.7 Complexity thinking
- ●3.8 Portfolio management
- ●3.9 Risk management
- ●3.10 Sustainability
- ●4.1 ITIL and DevOps
- ●4.2 ITIL and PRINCE2®
Prerequisites
Prior to attending this course, you should have any ITIL® 4 certification or ITIL® Foundation (Version 5).
Exam info
Our course includes approved courseware, labs, practice exams, as well as the voucher for the official ITIL® 5 exam.
At the end of this course, you will take the official ITIL® Strategy (Version 5) exam, covered by the Firebrand Certification Guarantee.
Material allowed: This is an open-book exam. The ITIL Strategy (Version 5) Official Book should be used (and candidates can make notes inside the book), but no other material is allowed.
Exam duration: 90 minutes. Candidates taking the exam in a language that is not their native or working language may be awarded 25% extra time, that is 113 minutes in total.
Number of questions: 40
Question type: Multiple-choice
Format: Scenario, Strategy
Pass mark: 28 (70%)
Domain weighting:
1. Key ITIL terms and definitions
20%
2. The ITIL Strategy Management Model
62.5%
3. Strategic capabilities
12.5%
4. ITIL and other frameworks
5%
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