June 1, 2016 In a previous blog I wrote a little about what change management is before offering seven tips for getting started with it. If you haven’t seen it, then I suggest you jump back to those first. Here, I add another eight to give you the full 15 tips and things to consider when getting started with […]
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May 25, 2016 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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May 18, 2016 “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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May 11, 2016 As the central (perhaps even single) point of contact, and “the face of IT,” your IT service desk needs to be a powerhouse of [...]
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May 4, 2016 I recently worked with a service management organisation (in the manufacturing sector) that wanted to improve their service delivery. [...]
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April 27, 2016 IT guys are often happiest when something breaks and they have a root cause to find, investigate, and resolve. Sometimes, though, [...]
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April 20, 2016 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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April 13, 2016 Maintaining a 5-star service desk relies on the continual assessment, and potential improvement, of the service you offer. But it can [...]
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April 6, 2016 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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March 29, 2016 Shadow IT, the introduction and use of IT in an organization with little or no involvement or support from the IT department, is a [...]
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March 23, 2016 Although we’re now well into the 21st century, the goals of the gender-equality movement have still to be accomplished, especially in [...]
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March 16, 2016 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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March 9, 2016 It’s not often that I admit to being excited by a new ITIL publication – the popular IT service management (ITSM) best practice [...]
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