One day real soon, machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will deliver on what they promise and truly help IT service management (ITSM) pros to better analyze and assess the risk of making a change. Until then, we still need to rely upon good old personal and peer experience. This experience [...]
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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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Change management is one of the most necessary, misunderstood, and all-too-often misused IT service management (ITSM) disciplines. If [...]
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When applications and infrastructure run out of capacity, they adversely impact services and business operations. To mitigate this [...]
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A knowledge base is arguably one of the most important tools that your organization’s IT service desk needs. Without a knowledge base, [...]
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It’s important that we, as IT service management (ITSM) pros, all know about the value stream and service quality – but sometimes [...]
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When looking to improve you IT service desk operations and results, there are a variety of best practice methodologies, frameworks, [...]
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If you actively participate in the IT service management (ITSM) community, then you’ve probably heard the growing level of [...]
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Many IT organizations will admit to the fact that they could be somewhat better at getting better, i.e. better at improving operations [...]
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Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]
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Knowledge management is playing an increasingly important part in the IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, and in keeping businesses [...]
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DevOps? ITIL? DevOps versus ITIL? There’s still lots of talk around which approach companies should take. But thankfully, there’s a [...]
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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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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.