November 14, 2018 Update since publication: The latest version of ITIL – ITIL 4 – was released on Monday 18th February. To find out what is actually covered in the latest version, along with what has changed, please read this blog by my good friend and ITIL 4 author Stuart Rance. Did someone say “ITIL 4?” I’m definitely […]
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November 7, 2018 Change management is one of the most necessary, misunderstood, and all-too-often misused IT service management (ITSM) disciplines. If [...]
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October 31, 2018 “I’ve had a penetration test done, so the service is secure!” (Firstly, no jokes please…) Too often, in my travels visiting a variety [...]
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October 24, 2018 Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a complicated world to explore – with phrases like general AI and narrow AI, weak AI and strong AI, [...]
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October 17, 2018 Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? It’s easy to get lost in a sea of IT security noise right now. Not a day, week, or month seems to go [...]
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October 3, 2018 Self-service on the IT service desk is no longer a new concept – with 70-80% of IT service desks having implemented some form of [...]
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September 26, 2018 Are you like me and still hearing crazy stuff about security in the cloud? “We don’t think public cloud is secure.” “We’re interested [...]
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September 20, 2018 While this blog can stand alone, it’s also the third part in my three-part blog series related to IT service management (ITSM) tool [...]
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September 13, 2018 This is the second blog in a three-part series that covers understanding what you need from an IT service management (ITSM) tool, [...]
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September 5, 2018 Much of the IT service management (ITSM) best practice guidance tells us that ITSM software should “come after” people and processes, [...]
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August 29, 2018 OK, it’s a bit of a clickbait-y title – but we need to question whether the current “handling” of IT support customer satisfaction [...]
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August 22, 2018 Ticket escalations are a staple of any IT service desk – where there’s a constant flow of incidents and service requests coming in. [...]
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August 8, 2018 Ever wanted to know more about service integration and management (affectionately known as SIAM)? Well, if you have, then your luck is [...]
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