August 30, 2017 Many companies still need to manage their software asset investments better – to reduce risks and financial “wastage.” It can be a huge undertaking but it can also be very rewarding – so start small if you need to, building up your software asset management capabilities over time. Software asset management (SAM) is an [...]
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August 23, 2017 COBIT might have started life as a tool for IT auditors, and the requirement for IT-related internal controls (hey, there’s no need to [...]
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August 16, 2017 In the development and adoption of an IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, people will spend many hours working on the design and [...]
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August 9, 2017 Who’d have thought that there are IT security lessons to be learned from a new approach the UK Government took to reducing speeding? [...]
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August 2, 2017 Problem management can be one of the most beneficial IT service management disciplines, but it can also be one of the most difficult to [...]
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July 26, 2017 Welcome back to this SysAdmin Day + IT service desk lovefest blog! Following on from my previous post – which covered trust (in [...]
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July 19, 2017 It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day at the end of the month (July 28th to be specific), hooray for SysAdmins! It’s great that we [...]
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July 12, 2017 As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. [...]
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June 28, 2017 Change managers wear a number of different hats in ensuring that changes to the corporate IT estate are applied in a speedy, yet [...]
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June 21, 2017 Public cloud services affect more than the traditional on-premise IT infrastructure. They also affect the people that deliver and [...]
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June 14, 2017 We’ve been hearing more and more about Business Relationship Management (BRM), and for good reason. BRM has been defined as ‘a formal [...]
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June 7, 2017 Incident management plays a key part in the IT service management ecosystem and in keeping businesses running. But what are the key [...]
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May 31, 2017 If you’ve been following my blogs (or even if you’re just a savvy IT professional like yours truly), then you know that ITIL® offers us [...]
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