There’s a common change management quote that states something like: “Change is inevitable in any organization, but with change comes risk.” Although personally I prefer the Spider-man quote: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Which rather interestingly is equally true about change management (or change [...]
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IT service management (ITSM) is changing. First thanks to new service management thinking and best practice such as ITIL 4. Second [...]
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COBIT, formerly known as Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, is a business framework for the governance and [...]
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It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost upon us and we will no longer get those “IT service management (ITSM) in 2020” blogs that were [...]
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FitSM is one of the lesser-known IT service management (ITSM) standards – or, more correctly, it’s a family of standards – in [...]
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AIOps is becoming “the next big thing” in the IT management world because the technology employed, and IT operations, have changed [...]
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Quite simply AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is all about humans and machines coming together to form a more [...]
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Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) is an IT service delivery and support capability that focuses on knowledge as a key asset of the IT [...]
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To help us IT service management (ITSM) folks get ahead, there are a number of ITSM best practice frameworks, methodologies, and [...]
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Service level management is one of the most important and necessary capabilities within IT service management (ITSM) but I’m going to [...]
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Chatbots are coming to the IT service desk, and why wouldn’t they? They’ve the potential to reduce workload for your agents, increase [...]
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The role of an IT service desk manager is an important one within IT service management (ITSM) but it isn’t a role that’s suitable to [...]
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Organizational change management (OCM) is essentially all about how organizations should manage big changes, of which for most [...]
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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.