Please get ready to learn a lot about organizational change management (sometimes abbreviated to OCM). And quickly. The first point I need to make about organizational change management is that it’s nothing to do with the ITIL change management process (now called “change control” in ITIL 4). Instead, organizational change [...]
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Yes, I’m still writing about the three ways of DevOps. Following on from my earlier blogs about using the DevOps first and second ways [...]
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Following on from my blog about using the DevOps first way to improve ITIL change and release practices by increasing flow, my latest [...]
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Whether your organization is planning to stay with ITIL v3 for a while or to quickly move to ITIL 4’s new view of IT service management [...]
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VeriSM – marketed as “service management for the digital age” – has been called “the new kid in town” in the world of service [...]
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So, here’s the thing. We all know that we’re supposed to be leaning into digitalization but, for many people, the real question is: How [...]
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ITIL is often called the most popular framework for IT service management (ITSM) but its last update was in 2011 which, when we [...]
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The last 12 months has seen a variety of refreshes in the IT service management (ITSM) industry: an updated COBIT, a new VeriSM book, [...]
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You might have noticed that something changed with the Force, sorry ITIL, last month – with the ITIL 4 update releasing its first [...]
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COBIT is a framework designed to support the governance and management of enterprise IT. It helps organizations to deliver value to [...]
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At the end of last year, the service management standard ISO/IEC 20000, usually referred to as simply ISO 20000, was given a revision. [...]
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With so much going on in the world of IT service management (ITSM), and the wider IT management space, it’s easy to neglect some of the [...]
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The service catalog is one of the most useful technology products in IT service management (ITSM) today. Done well, it acts as a [...]
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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.