January 17, 2018 Many IT organizations will admit to the fact that they could be somewhat better at getting better, i.e. better at improving operations and services. My previous blog introduced the concept of Kaizen as a philosophy and approach that aids continuous service improvement (CSI). This time around I want to get more [...]
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January 10, 2018 “Kaizen” might sound like a breakfast roll but don’t be fooled – it’s a philosophy and approach that aids continuous service [...]
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January 4, 2018 Many IT organizations think it’s too difficult to take on software asset management (SAM), also called software license management [...]
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December 18, 2017 Questions around the performance of IT self-service, compared to more traditional IT support access and communication channels, opens [...]
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December 13, 2017 Who doesn’t love the holidays? The feeling of goodwill, the great TV, seeing friends and family. How awesome is the holiday period? But [...]
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December 6, 2017 In the IT service management (ITSM) world there’s often talk of the need for configuration management and configuration management [...]
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November 29, 2017 Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]
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November 22, 2017 DevOps isn’t just about development, the creation of new code and capabilities, there’s also the need to release to the production [...]
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November 1, 2017 Configuration management and the configuration management database (CMDB) should play a key part in the IT service management (ITSM) [...]
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October 25, 2017 IT asset management (ITAM) is a powerful IT management activity that saves your organization time and money and minimizes risk; but all [...]
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October 18, 2017 Public cloud has come a long way since we were all worried about the levels of security and availability associated with the delivery [...]
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October 11, 2017 It’s always fun to sit and talk with 2nd line support folks – the ones who actually understand the technological whatsits and [...]
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October 4, 2017 Knowledge management is playing an increasingly important part in the IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, and in keeping businesses [...]
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