Hopefully, we all know that – in IT service management (ITSM) – change management (now called “change control” in ITIL 4) is the practice, or capability, that helps organizations to manage IT (and potentially business-impacting) change effectively, efficiently, and safely. Done well, change management (or control) can be a [...]
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Hopefully, you already understand change management as the process, or capability, that manages change effectively, efficiently, and [...]
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You’ve probably heard and read a lot about digital transformation in the last couple of years. You might already be in the midst of [...]
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Mental health and wellbeing have become popular business-media topics in recent years and I’m really pleased to see that this focus has [...]
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Hey, did you hear that I’ve had an IT service management (ITSM) solution named after me? Oops, sorry it seems that this isn’t what I [...]
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Major incidents are stressful. They’re the boogiemen of IT issues, which adversely affect business operations and outcomes. ITIL 4 [...]
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Workplace stress has been a topic of research for many years but the condition itself seems to be on the rise – with one study finding [...]
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One day in 2001, seventeen developers got together to talk about the barriers and complications that surrounded the development of [...]
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It’s finally arrived – ITIL 4. And with it, we see the demise and laying to rest of the venerable and frankly vulnerable service [...]
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Working on the IT service desk is an excellent way to test the waters to see whether a career in IT is what you want. It’s an [...]
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The digital transformation of back-office operations might not seem as sexy as the other two – more commonly talked about – elements of [...]
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Please get ready to learn a lot about organizational change management (sometimes abbreviated to OCM). And quickly. The first point I [...]
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Yes, I’m still writing about the three ways of DevOps. Following on from my earlier blogs about using the DevOps first and second ways [...]
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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.