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Service Desk Managers: 5 Key ITSM Things to Do in 2020

If you can still remember last year, then hopefully you’ll remember my A-Z of ITSM in 2020 blog in which I covered 26 of the most important areas for IT service management (ITSM) professionals to focus on this year. Well, guess what? There’s more to share. This time I’m taking some of those 26 points […]

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Cynefin framework

An A-Z of Cynefin

The Cynefin framework is an approach designed to help leaders to make sense of the situations that they, their team, and their [...]

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No Knowledge

Taking the NO Out of Knowledge Management

“What?! Joe’s writing about knowledge management?” I hear you cry. “That’s so early 2000s, do you have access to the internet yet?” And [...]

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A-Z of ITSM

The A-Z of ITSM in 2020

It seems that people like my IT service management (ITSM) A-Z lists. So, as 2020 rapidly approaches us, here’s an A-Z of the many [...]

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Helpdesk Staffing

ITSM Basics: Is Your IT Help Desk Staffing Right?

Getting IT help desk, or IT service desk, staffing right can be very difficult. Especially when budgets are tight, and IT help desk [...]

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Up Your KEDB Game

8 Tips for Using a KEDB to Up Your Problem Management Game

Whether your organization uses ITIL or not, a known error database, or KEDB, is a surefire way to both improve your problem management [...]

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Emergency Change Management Drama

Emergency Change Management: Please Stop The Drama

There’s a common change management quote that states something like: “Change is inevitable in any organization, but with change comes [...]

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A-Z of Automation

The A-Z of Automation

IT service management (ITSM) is changing. First thanks to new service management thinking and best practice such as ITIL 4. Second [...]

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Intro to COBIT

An Introduction to COBIT

COBIT, formerly known as Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, is a business framework for the governance and [...]

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IT service desk in 2020

How to Get Your IT Service Desk Ready for 2020

It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost upon us and we will no longer get those “IT service management (ITSM) in 2020” blogs that were [...]

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FitSM Light Framework

FitSM: The Lightweight ITSM Standard

FitSM is one of the lesser-known IT service management (ITSM) standards – or, more correctly, it’s a family of standards – in [...]

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AIops Brain

Want to Get Started with AIOps? Here’s How

AIOps is becoming “the next big thing” in the IT management world because the technology employed, and IT operations, have changed [...]

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AIOps Explained

What is AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations)?

Quite simply AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is all about humans and machines coming together to form a more [...]

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Joe

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.