A service level agreement, commonly known as an SLA, is an agreement that outlines the expectations of both sides in a service provider-customer relationship. Importantly for service providers, it’s one of the most effective ways to manage customer expectations and, in turn, your relationship with the customer. Yet it’s not [...]
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IT service management (ITSM) is constantly evolving, and over the 20 or so years that the term has been in common use, the scope has [...]
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The heart of any IT service management (ITSM) program is the need to add value to business operations – to make the business more [...]
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In my previous blog, I offered up eight tips for getting started with self-service. Here I offer another seven. 9. Plan Ahead for [...]
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Self-service for IT is one of those things that’s relatively easy to “do” but not so easy to get right, i.e. to deliver a capability [...]
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Whether you ask for your pizza with extra “tom-mah-toe” or “toe-may-toe,” the end result is going to be the same – extra tomatoes on [...]
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It’s that time of the week, month, year; your service desk report is due and you’re drowning in spreadsheets and graphs. Yes, you could [...]
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How often do you find yourself standing on the side of a snow-capped mountain, frozen to the spot while helplessly looking up at the [...]
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It’s important to be good at what you do. In practice that means striving to get better and better. This is a popular attitude and [...]
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When people think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and IT service management (ITSM), they immediately think of a “hosted ITSM tool,” [...]
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Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]
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The cloud deliberately hides the technical and operational complexity from consumers so they can get on with their real jobs. The [...]
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In a previous blog I wrote a little about what change management is before offering seven tips for getting started with it. If you [...]
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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.