One day in 2001, seventeen developers got together to talk about the barriers and complications that surrounded the development of software. They came up with the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” which aimed to remove those complications and make software development easier and more effective. You’ve probably [...]
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The digital transformation of back-office operations might not seem as sexy as the other two – more commonly talked about – elements of [...]
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Please get ready to learn a lot about organizational change management (sometimes abbreviated to OCM). And quickly. The first point I [...]
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If you consistently say the words “strategy” and “strategic,” this means that you sound smart, right? Oh my. If I had a dollar for [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be [...]
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What happened to 2018? It’s probably my age – I’m older than I look – but we seem to be clocking up the years in IT service management [...]
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One day real soon, machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will deliver on what they promise and truly help IT [...]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a complicated world to explore – with phrases like general AI and narrow AI, weak AI and strong AI, [...]
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While this blog can stand alone, it’s also the third part in my three-part blog series related to IT service management (ITSM) tool [...]
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This is the second blog in a three-part series that covers understanding what you need from an IT service management (ITSM) tool, [...]
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Much of the IT service management (ITSM) best practice guidance tells us that ITSM software should “come after” people and processes, [...]
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In my previous blog, I wrote about how to recognize and deal with the issues associated with watermelon service level agreements [...]
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When applications and infrastructure run out of capacity, they adversely impact services and business operations. To mitigate this [...]
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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.