March 21, 2018 When looking to improve you IT service desk operations and results, there are a variety of best practice methodologies, frameworks, standards, and other approaches available. But which should you use? Or, asked differently, what approaches are used most? The tail end of 2017 brought news of a new service management approach [...]
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December 13, 2017 Who doesn’t love the holidays? The feeling of goodwill, the great TV, seeing friends and family. How awesome is the holiday period? But [...]
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September 27, 2017 Oftentimes it’s the every day things I do in my life that teach me about service management. So let me tell you what happened this [...]
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August 23, 2017 COBIT might have started life as a tool for IT auditors, and the requirement for IT-related internal controls (hey, there’s no need to [...]
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August 2, 2017 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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June 28, 2017 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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June 7, 2017 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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May 3, 2017 In Part 1 of this blog I offered five tips for getting started with ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework: [...]
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April 26, 2017 Some people panic when they hear the word ITIL – either because of memories of previous painful, or failed, ITIL adoption projects, or [...]
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March 15, 2017 In my previous blog, I recounted how I had recently finished the book The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson and how the ten life lessons or [...]
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March 8, 2017 I recently finished the book The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson. Wilson, best known for his portrayal of Dwight Schrute from the US [...]
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February 22, 2017 For those of us in the IT service management (ITSM) space, DevOps appeared on our scene around five years ago. And at that time, to [...]
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February 9, 2017 If you’ve attended an ITIL Foundation course, you’ll remember learning about emergency changes, and the role of the ECAB – the [...]
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