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Effective software asset managers

The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective Software Asset Managers

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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Cobit

COBIT 101 – So Much More Than “Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies”

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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Lean tips for ITSM

3 Lean Tips to Enhance Your Everyday ITSM Activities

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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IT Security Cameras

What IT Security Can Learn from Speed Cameras

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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Effective Problem Management

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Problem Managers

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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Love your IT service desk

Another 5 Reasons to Love Your IT Service Desk

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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Love your IT service desk

The First 5 Reasons to Love Your IT Service Desk

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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Tech buzzwords

3 of the Hottest Technology Buzzwords of 2017 Explained

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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Effective Change Managers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Change Managers

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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AWS Cloud Champion

ITIL-as-a-Service? 7 Cloud-Integrated ITSM Processes

Public cloud services affect more than the traditional on-premise IT infrastructure. They also affect the people that deliver and [...]

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Kittens teach us about BRM

The Road to Kittens Is Littered with BRM

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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Effective Incident Managers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Incident Managers

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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Getting your ITSM ducks lined up

Design Coordination: How to Get Your ITSM Ducks in a Row

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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Joe

So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.