It’s tough working in IT support at the best of times and during the COVID-19 crisis, I think we can all agree that these are not the best of times. There was, and still is, so much to do in terms of enabling employees who have been forced to work at home – adding pressure […]
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During these difficult times, we need to appreciate all the people involved in IT support and how they’re often keeping employees and [...]
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It seems that people like my IT service management (ITSM) A-Z lists. So, as 2020 rapidly approaches us, here’s an A-Z of the many [...]
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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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Quite simply AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is all about humans and machines coming together to form a more [...]
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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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A new version of the ITIL IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – ITIL 4 – was released early in 2019. It was big news [...]
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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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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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VeriSM – marketed as “service management for the digital age” – has been called “the new kid in town” in the world of service [...]
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If you consistently say the words “strategy” and “strategic,” this means that you sound smart, right? Oh my. If I had a dollar for [...]
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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.