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CSI Is the Crème de la Crème of ITSM

Why Continual Service Improvement Is the Crème de la Crème of ITSM

Have you ever thought about the truly basic concepts underpinning continual service improvement (CSI)? Let’s take a look at the words themselves. “Improvement” The main point of CSI is to deliver improvement, so I think it makes sense to start with that word. Often individuals’ preconceptions of improvement limit the scale [...]

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DevOps

Where Is the IT Service Desk in a DevOps World?

As more companies move to adopt DevOps practices to improve IT performance (my company included), I was thinking to myself – is it [...]

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Customer experience

Uncovering and Managing the Customer Experience

My previous blog talked about what customer experience actually IS, along with a video that followed my learning cycle. We saw [...]

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Stop derailing your ITSM activities

Four Things That May Be Derailing Your ITSM Activities – Part 2

In part one of this blog I covered two possible causes of IT service management (ITSM) derailment: (1) the lack of executive support, [...]

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Stop derailing your ITSM activities

Four Things That May Be Derailing Your ITSM Activities – Part 1

Sometimes it is a good idea to stop for moment, to take stock of where you are and where you want, or need, to be. Especially when you [...]

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Feed your CSI register

Are You Feeding and Caring for Your CSI Register?

Well, it’s been almost a year since my last blog on continual service improvement (CSI), and I really do hope you’ve already passed the [...]

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DevOps Brings High Velocity to ITSM

How DevOps Brings High Velocity to ITSM

“The harder I practice, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player, professional golfer At the core of DevOps is learning. And DevOps [...]

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Service Level Agreements: A Whistle Stop Tour

Service Level Agreements: A Whistle-Stop Tour

A service level agreement, commonly known as an SLA, is an agreement that outlines the expectations of both sides in a service [...]

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Incident Management Basics

Incident Management Basics Still Matter

IT service management (ITSM) is constantly evolving, and over the 20 or so years that the term has been in common use, the scope has [...]

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Back to the Future with ITSM

ITSM and IT Support in 2016: What Has Changed Since Late 2011?

Four and a half years is a long time in technology, but sadly not so much in IT service management (ITSM). Rather scarily, thinking [...]

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School ITIL

13 ITSM Tips They Don’t Always Tell You at ITIL School

Last year, my good friend Earl Begley wrote an interesting blog called “Things I didn’t learn in ITIL school.” Earl’s blog detailed [...]

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6 Tips on How to Get Ahead in IT Service Management

Work can consume a significant part of our lives and, for the majority of us, it’s important to feel that we are appreciated for what [...]

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Joe

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.