Who’d have thought that there are IT security lessons to be learned from a new approach the UK Government took to reducing speeding? But the concept of changing people’s mindsets to think about road safety rather than speeding is, rather peculiarly, a great fit for the IT security issues organizations currently face with [...]
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Problem management can be one of the most beneficial IT service management disciplines, but it can also be one of the most difficult to [...]
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Welcome back to this SysAdmin Day + IT service desk lovefest blog! Following on from my previous post – which covered trust (in [...]
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It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day at the end of the month (July 28th to be specific), hooray for SysAdmins! It’s great that we [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. [...]
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For around a decade now, businesses have been moving their software into cloud-based hosting at an ever increasing rate. This is not [...]
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Change managers wear a number of different hats in ensuring that changes to the corporate IT estate are applied in a speedy, yet [...]
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Public cloud services affect more than the traditional on-premise IT infrastructure. They also affect the people that deliver and [...]
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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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Incident management plays a key part in the IT service management ecosystem and in keeping businesses running. But what are the key [...]
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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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Yesterday I walked home through the park and watched someone throwing around a ball with his dog. Literally every time the guy first [...]
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Following on from my previous blogs on DevOps, service integration and management (SIAM), and Agile, here’s another “ITSM [...]
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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.