February 6, 2019 The service catalog is one of the most useful technology products in IT service management (ITSM) today. Done well, it acts as a single, consistent source of information for all of the IT and business services that are available to the organization. Making up part of the overall service portfolio along with the pipeline of [...]
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January 2, 2019 As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be [...]
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November 28, 2018 Once upon a time, there were only a few ways employees could get IT help. They could phone a help desk number, hoping to get a person [...]
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November 14, 2018 Update since publication: The latest version of ITIL – ITIL 4 – was released on Monday 18th February. To find out what is actually [...]
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November 7, 2018 Change management is one of the most necessary, misunderstood, and all-too-often misused IT service management (ITSM) disciplines. If [...]
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October 10, 2018 Have you ever wondered why new-job “probation periods” are often three to six months? This seems awfully long to me. However, I do [...]
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August 8, 2018 Ever wanted to know more about service integration and management (affectionately known as SIAM)? Well, if you have, then your luck is [...]
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July 25, 2018 A known error database (KEDB) is a place for your organization’s IT department to store all of its “known errors.” “Known what’s?” I [...]
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July 18, 2018 In my previous blog, I wrote about how to recognize and deal with the issues associated with watermelon service level agreements [...]
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June 27, 2018 When applications and infrastructure run out of capacity, they adversely impact services and business operations. To mitigate this [...]
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June 13, 2018 If you keep hearing about the concept of “shift-left” within IT service management (ITSM), and for the IT service desk in particular, [...]
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March 27, 2018 IT asset management and IT service management are IT management siblings, yet they often don’t play together as much as they could. [...]
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March 14, 2018 In my previous blog I offered up 5 service and integration management (SIAM) tips (as well as a quick refresher as to what SIAM is). [...]
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