January 15, 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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December 18, 2019 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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December 4, 2019 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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November 13, 2019 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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October 30, 2019 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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October 9, 2019 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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September 18, 2019 Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) is an IT service delivery and support capability that focuses on knowledge as a key asset of the IT [...]
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September 11, 2019 To help us IT service management (ITSM) folks get ahead, there are a number of ITSM best practice frameworks, methodologies, and [...]
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September 4, 2019 Service level management is one of the most important and necessary capabilities within IT service management (ITSM) but I’m going to [...]
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August 28, 2019 Chatbots are coming to the IT service desk, and why wouldn’t they? They’ve the potential to reduce workload for your agents, increase [...]
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August 14, 2019 Organizational change management (OCM) is essentially all about how organizations should manage big changes, of which for most [...]
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July 24, 2019 A new version of the ITIL IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – ITIL 4 – was released early in 2019. It was big news [...]
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July 17, 2019 Hopefully, we all know that – in IT service management (ITSM) – change management (now called “change control” in ITIL 4) is the [...]
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