The ITIL Performance Benchmarking Model (ITIL PBM) provides a structured way for organizations to assess how effectively they use and manage digital technology, using a focused set of benchmark-ready metrics to compare performance with industry peers.

How Can the Model Empower Your Organization?
Understand how effectively digital technology enables business objectives
Strengthen business-IT alignment, resilience, agility and operational effectiveness
Support strategic decision-making with consistent, industry-aligned data
Prioritize improvements based on comparable evidence
The Model’s Key Features
Built on the ITIL objectives cascade, linking strategic business needs to measurable outcomes.
Uses a focused set of 12 key metrics covering four strategic areas: business-IT alignment, resilience, agility, and operational effectiveness.
Provides clear metric definitions, standardized measurement instructions, and guidance for interpreting results.
Ensures cross-enterprise consistency through defined measurement rules, enabling reliable benchmarking.
Can be applied as an internal self-assessment or delivered as an independent assessment by PeopleCert’s Accredited Consulting Partners (ACPs).
What Makes the Model Unique?
Business-aligned
The model focuses on metrics for business outcomes connected with digital technology.
Relevant
It is built on consistently measurable metrics relevant to different organizations.
Integrated
The model is powered by ITIL practice guides and designed to work seamlessly with the ITIL Maturity Model.
Global
It is developed as part of the ITIL framework and trusted by organizations and professionals across the globe.
Holistic
The model covers four strategic focus areas, combining objective and perception-based metrics.
Transparent
It provides clearly defined metrics with transparent measurement rules and analysis guidelines.
Participate in the ITIL Performance Benchmarking Study
Assess your organization’s performance
Take part in the first international ITIL Performance Benchmarking study to help establish industry benchmarks for digital technology management. Participants will receive the full benchmarking report and insight into how their organization compares with industry peers across key strategic focus areas.
Want to learn more?
To support informed and seamless participation, download the ITIL PBM guide to review the measurement framework, metric definitions, standardized calculation methods, and survey templates.
The guide outlines the required data inputs and helps ensure your responses align with the benchmarking framework.
26 February 2026 | 12:00 GMT
In 30 minutes, explore the model in action, understand how it works in practice, and gain insight into the benchmarking process.
Be among the first to benchmark how your organization’s use of digital technology compares with that of industry peers!
Meet Our Speaker
Dmitry Isaychenko
Dmitry is an IT consultant, solution architect, ITIL 4 co-author and trainer with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He currently holds the position of Partner Programmes Portfolio Director at PeopleCert and has co-authored the book ‘Metrics-based Service Management’.
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