There’s a growing industry trend for IT departments, and especially IT support groups, to look beyond traditional service level agreement (SLAs) to find other ways of understanding (and ensuring) whether end-user and customer expectations are being met. Is it time to look at your organization’s use of SLAs? For some IT [...]
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Have you ever been asked: “What’s a service?” It might seem a strange, or even silly, question to ask someone who’s already managing, [...]
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Last week, I blogged about business relationship management (BRM) (link) and how it can seriously help IT organizations who are [...]
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Is your IT organization struggling to meet business expectations around service quality, support, or anything else? Then business [...]
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Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]
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Configuration management and the configuration management database (CMDB) should play a key part in the IT service management (ITSM) [...]
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Oftentimes it’s the every day things I do in my life that teach me about service management. So let me tell you what happened this [...]
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Who’d have thought that there are IT security lessons to be learned from a new approach the UK Government took to reducing speeding? [...]
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We’ve been hearing more and more about Business Relationship Management (BRM), and for good reason. BRM has been defined as ‘a formal [...]
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If you’ve been following my blogs (or even if you’re just a savvy IT professional like yours truly), then you know that ITIL® offers us [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, which public cloud “camp” are you in: Cloud is great? Cloud is a disaster? Couldn’t [...]
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If extra-terrestrial intelligence reached Planet Earth, landing in your IT service management (ITSM) department and started to look [...]
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In my previous blog, I recounted how I had recently finished the book The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson and how the ten life lessons or [...]
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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.