November 25, 2014 Many people and organizations seem to struggle with metrics, reporting, analytics, and demonstrating value from IT service management (ITSM). If you’re doing service management, service level management (SLM), and continual service improvement (CSI), then metrics are essential elements and need to be focused, relevant and [...]
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November 4, 2014 Ah problem management. I’ve written about it before (see the additional resources at the bottom) and I’m sure I’ll write about it [...]
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November 4, 2014 It’s another Interop New York blog, this time based on a keynote by Steve Comstock, Vice President of Site and IT Infrastructure at CBS [...]
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October 15, 2014 Sophie Danby and I still have more blogs to write based on SysAid’s trip to Interop New York at the start of October. But we need to be [...]
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October 9, 2014 I usually write about IT service management (ITSM), but October 2014 is National Cyber Security Month in the USA, so I naturally [...]
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September 30, 2014 OK, I’ve exaggerated slightly in my hopefully click-bait blog titling – if you can’t beat them join them. HP and IBM are also at [...]
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August 22, 2014 What exactly is your job? Firstly, it doesn’t feel like a job anymore, as it’s been an exciting and life-changing [...]
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August 14, 2014 I recently wrote about what I see as the positive aspects of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). But with Bring Your Own Network (BYON), I [...]
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August 5, 2014 ‘I feel like a juggler multitasking in several different languages and time zones.’ A favourite quote from a Service Desk Manager I [...]
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July 17, 2014 Like so many millions of people, I’ve been excitedly waiting on the edge of my seat for Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone (please [...]
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July 11, 2014 My native language is English, and this makes it very easy for me to access many different sources of information. I sometimes forget [...]
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June 19, 2014 I felt like I needed a bit of a break from ITSM. So I thought, why not write something on a super sexy subject? Then I decided to write [...]
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June 9, 2014 The IT department is one of, if not THE most important department within any organisation. IT is the glue that holds an organisation [...]
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