In viewing many efforts at creating and maintaining a Software Asset Management (SAM) process in different organizations, it’s come to my attention that addressing a few basics taken from the discipline of business and systems analysis would benefit many businesses in this area. Below are my top ten tips for creating a SAM [...]
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Is IT service management (ITSM) under attack from the technology “unicorns” and things like DevOps and Lean? Many of the articles we [...]
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In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some things to think about before you even get your hammer, saw, and trusty tool belt out to [...]
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Have you found your trusty hard hat and tool belt? I hope so, because I’m back and ready to start diving into the details of building [...]
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What exactly is your job? I’m a freelance writer and IT service management (ITSM) specialist, which means I get to talk to a lot of [...]
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Would you build a house by starting with the roof? Well of course not! Yet many ITSM implementations I hear about want to start with [...]
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Be warned, this blog looks to the future of IT service management (ITSM), ITSM tools, and ITSM data. You might need to click through on [...]
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In this blog, I take a look at observations that I have encountered over the last 2-3 years about Software Asset Management (SAM); ten [...]
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I must be mixing with the wrong crowd as some of my blogs have gone a little bit “out there” of late. This time I want to look at how [...]
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What exactly is your job? By day, I’m a mild mannered IT manager at a US state agency – managing enterprise services, which [...]
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Hold on to your hats, lil’ ol’ Joe is about to get all technical on you … Demand for IT is unpredictable in what is now a digital, [...]
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What exactly is your job? In my current consultancy-based role I help companies to move from where they are now to where they need to [...]
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What exactly is your job? I am the Director of Product Management at Samanage, and I love every minute of it. I manage all of our [...]
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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.