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ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, and Improve (DPI)
ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, and Improve (DPI)
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Choose your own adventure. The ITIL 4 Specialist: Direct, Plan, and Improve (DPI) training course applies to both the ITIL 4 Managing Professional and ITIL 4 Strategic Leader certifications. Our extreme subject matter experts will instruct you on creating a ‘learning and improving’ IT organization with a strong, strategic direction. Designed to help current and future leaders inspire others with collaborative action.
3 Day Course
Exam-Pass Guarantee
Exam Voucher Included
24 PDUs
Award-Winning Instructors
Industry-Leading Courseware
Next-Gen Online ITIL Training
ITIL 4 DPI Training Course
The ITIL 4 DPI training course is one of two courses required to earn your ITIL 4 Strategic Leader (SL) certification, and one of four courses required to become an ITIL 4 Managing Professional (MP). It’s a module for the modern IT and service management professional who is looking to break silos down and co-create value.
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UPCOMING COURSES
No public courses are currently scheduled, but we can deliver this course onsite at your location. Contact us for a quote.
Your ITIL 4 Instructor
Kevin Jones
With over 25 years of expertise as an IT architect, consultant, speaker, and trainer, Kevin has created a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership in IT Service Management, IT Business Management, and Organizational Change Management. Utilizing both ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000 guidance, he has spearheaded business and IT re-engineering engagements across industries to improve workflows based on financial impact analysis. Kevin holds a Masters of International Management from Arizona State University and is adept at technical training/course development.
David Crouch
An IT professional with over two decades of experience in management, digital strategy, and program/project leadership, David Crouch holds a Master of Science in Information Technology Systems and an MBA from The Johns Hopkins University. In addition to being a published author and adjunct professor, David serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, helping them to apply digital business skills to do more good in a better way. David is also one of the authors of the official AXELOS publication "ITIL 4 Leader: Digital and IT Strategy." Bonus: He is the best-dressed ITIL instructor you’ll ever meet.
Erika Flora
After starting her career as a microbiologist, Erika became a program manager and discovered a passion for improving how organizations manage workflows and deliver great products and services. In 2006, she co-founded Beyond20. A Master ITIL instructor and accredited Course Conductor Trusted Trainer, Erika has been teaching ITIL courses for over 13 years. She has more than 15 years of experience in IT and enterprise project management, served as an adjunct professor at San Diego State, and is a prolific writer and speaker. Erika was also the lead editor of the official AXELOS publication "ITIL 4 Leader: Digital and IT Strategy."
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ITIL DPI provides individuals with the practical skills necessary to create a ‘learning and improving’ IT organization with effective strategic direction. It covers the influence and impact of Agile and Lean, and how they can be leveraged to an organization’s advantage. It will also give practitioners practical and strategic methods for planning and delivering continual improvement with necessary agility. That’s a whole ‘lotta ITIL.
Since this course covers both practical and strategic elements of learning and improving IT organizations, it is the universal module – required for both the ITIL 4 Managing Professional (MP) stream and the ITIL 4 Strategic Leader (SL) stream. After taking each of the modules required of your intermediate stream (including this one), you can take the MP/SL certification course + exam.
ITIL 4 Strategist Direct Plan and Improve is aimed at managers of all levels involved in shaping direction and strategy or developing a continually improving team.
Yes. With the ITIL 4 DPI exam (similar to the other ITIL 4 Managing Professional exams), you will have one hour to answer 40 multiple choice questions, and each question is worth one point. You need to get a score of 70%, or at least 28 correct answers, to pass the DPI exam.
Our ITIL 4 Intermediate training courses come with an Exam Pass Guarantee: If you fail the exam on your first attempt, we will help you set up a retake at no additional cost. We will also help you identify areas of weakness so you can optimize your study efforts. If need be, you may also attend the training course again – on us.
A few days before class, you will receive an email with details on how to access our virtual training room, and physical courseware will be delivered to your shipping address.
Our virtual classes are instructed in a way that mirrors the experience you would get from an in-person course. That way, students remain fully engaged and the information sticks! Our virtual training courses are packed with interactive whiteboards, breakout rooms, virtual sticky note walls, and more to help ensure your success on the exam.
We understand that your goal is to learn effectively and get certified in one shot. After all, certification training can be a substantial investment. As such, it’s critical to us that you learn from someone who will help you retain key concepts and get you across the finish line efficiently.
But at the same time, who wants to take a boring class? If we’re going to spend a lot of time looking at screens, the material should at least be engaging. That’s why we’re hyper-focused on bringing variety to your virtual training experience. People learn differently, so we use several methods to teach concepts throughout the day.
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Rest assured: At Beyond20, our instructors are some of the world’s best. Not only do our full-time, in-house training staff have decades of experience in the field, but in many cases, we are the official authors of authoritative publications (e.g., ITIL). Working with Beyond20 means learning from the top subject matter experts out there. It means training and taking your exams with confidence.
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