Probably the most famous IT service desk in the world is the fictional one in The IT Crowd. The business doesn’t understand it, the employees don’t like using it, and the service desk staff hate doing it. Unlike the two-person service desk in the IT Crowd, in your average enterprise the size, cost, and temperature […]
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Whether you ask for your pizza with extra “tom-mah-toe” or “toe-may-toe,” the end result is going to be the same – extra tomatoes on [...]
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It’s that time of the week, month, year; your service desk report is due and you’re drowning in spreadsheets and graphs. Yes, you could [...]
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How often do you find yourself standing on the side of a snow-capped mountain, frozen to the spot while helplessly looking up at the [...]
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Four and a half years is a long time in technology, but sadly not so much in IT service management (ITSM). Rather scarily, thinking [...]
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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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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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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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There is a promised path to the cloud. One that feels familiar to hardware and software vendors, and to their armies of certified [...]
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The cloud deliberately hides the technical and operational complexity from consumers so they can get on with their real jobs. The [...]
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In a previous blog I wrote a little about what change management is before offering seven tips for getting started with it. If you [...]
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I’ve previously written an “IT service management (ITSM) Basics” blog on change management that covers what it is, but I thought it’d [...]
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“Do as I say, not as I do” is an instruction that most children are familiar with. Their questions receive the shriek “Because I’m your [...]
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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.