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 grown and spread considerably. The initial tight operational focus of the early ITIL® days has spread to address strategy and design as mainstream ITSM topics. Ongoing efforts are being made [...]
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In my previous blog, I offered up eight tips for getting started with self-service. Here I offer another seven. 9. Plan Ahead for [...]
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Probably the most famous IT service desk in the world is the fictional one in The IT Crowd. The business doesn’t understand it, the [...]
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Whether you ask for your pizza with extra “tom-mah-toe” or “toe-may-toe,” the end result is going to be the same – extra tomatoes on [...]
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It’s that time of the week, month, year; your service desk report is due and you’re drowning in spreadsheets and graphs. Yes, you could [...]
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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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It’s important to be good at what you do. In practice that means striving to get better and better. This is a popular attitude and [...]
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When people think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and IT service management (ITSM), they immediately think of a “hosted ITSM tool,” [...]
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Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]
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In a previous blog I wrote a little about what change management is before offering seven tips for getting started with it. If you [...]
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I’ve previously written an “IT service management (ITSM) Basics” blog on change management that covers what it is, but I thought it’d [...]
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“Do as I say, not as I do” is an instruction that most children are familiar with. Their questions receive the shriek “Because I’m your [...]
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As the central (perhaps even single) point of contact, and “the face of IT,” your IT service desk needs to be a powerhouse of [...]
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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.