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 what I would argue is the ITSM “roof”. Here’s some examples: “Let’s get SLAs with our customers!” – Hey, I get it – you want to establish performance and delivery […]
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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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Service Integration and Management (SIAM) has been around for a while but it’s still a strange or even unheard of term for many. [...]
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What exactly is your job? That’s a very good question! I’m a director of ITSM Zone (formerly IT Training Zone). My main role is to look [...]
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IT is a huge part of the budget for many companies, and the money spent on IT is intended to create business value and support business [...]
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Before you pick up a tool, you need to know what you plan to use it for. That’s just common sense, isn’t it? So naturally there’s a [...]
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Why do people have to make things so complex? I often see organizations whose processes, tool configurations, user interfaces and every [...]
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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.