Category: IT Service Management (ITSM)


Back to the Future with ITSM

ITSM and IT Support in 2016: What Has Changed Since Late 2011?

Four and a half years is a long time in technology, but sadly not so much in IT service management (ITSM). Rather scarily, thinking back to all those 2020 predictions as we started the new decade – well we are over halfway there now. When you look to what has happened to, and within, the […]

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The Best ITSM Way

Continual Service Improvement: More than Process Improvement

It’s important to be good at what you do. In practice that means striving to get better and better. This is a popular attitude and [...]

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Integrate SaaS systems

The SaaS-ification of ITSM Means More Than a Hosted Service Desk

When people think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and IT service management (ITSM), they immediately think of a “hosted ITSM tool,” [...]

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ITSM bridge with DevOps

How DevOps Organizational Changes Impact ITSM

Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]

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Value of Service Catalogue

The Real Value of Service Catalogue

I recently worked with a service management organisation (in the manufacturing sector) that wanted to improve their service delivery. [...]

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ITSM Outsourcing and Common Sense – Bedfellows or Poles Apart?

ITSM Outsourcing and Common Sense – Bedfellows or Poles Apart?

For me it was a constant source of bafflement in projects – why does the obvious seem so out of reach when we look at applying IT [...]

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Amplify DevOps

Three ITSM Activities to Amplify DevOps Feedback Loops

There are Three Ways of DevOps, three principles that underpin all other DevOps patterns. The DevOps Second Way is to “Amplify Feedback [...]

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Business continuity, disaster recovery (BC/DR)

Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, and ITSM Are Not Mutually Exclusive

We have all had, or have heard about, IT horror stories that have caused businesses to go into unplanned panic (and most likely to be [...]

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ITIL needs cybernetics

Dear Axelos, ITIL Needs Cybernetics

In ITIL 2011 – an IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – there’s five books covering nearly thirty ITSM processes. And [...]

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Availability Management

Availability Management Is Harder Than It Looks

Everyone understands the need for availability of services. I mean, we all want our power services to be there, right? OK, maybe some [...]

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Continual Service Improvement

Seven Essential Components of a Successful Improvement Program

Introduction If you’re following IT service management (ITSM) trends, you’ll have noticed continuous improvement is “the new black,” [...]

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Add Hubot to Your ITSM Team

As part of the rapid growth in social media adoption, Twitter reignited a “chat revolution” and triggered a resurgence in internet [...]

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School ITIL

13 ITSM Tips They Don’t Always Tell You at ITIL School

Last year, my good friend Earl Begley wrote an interesting blog called “Things I didn’t learn in ITIL school.” Earl’s blog detailed [...]

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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.