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 rapidly growing and descending snowball of your IT nightmares? Metaphorically-speaking of course, but hopefully you get the point. What started out as a potentially insignificant issue has [...]
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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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I’ve previously written an “IT service management (ITSM) Basics” blog on change management that covers what it is, but I thought it’d [...]
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As the central (perhaps even single) point of contact, and “the face of IT,” your IT service desk needs to be a powerhouse of [...]
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IT guys are often happiest when something breaks and they have a root cause to find, investigate, and resolve. Sometimes, though, [...]
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Maintaining a 5-star service desk relies on the continual assessment, and potential improvement, of the service you offer. But it can [...]
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Shadow IT, the introduction and use of IT in an organization with little or no involvement or support from the IT department, is a [...]
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We have all had, or have heard about, IT horror stories that have caused businesses to go into unplanned panic (and most likely to be [...]
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Long blog title, I know, but hopefully it got your attention. You might be thinking “IT service desk complaints and continual service [...]
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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.