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BRM Rocking it 2

Another 5 Tips for Using BRM to Rock Service Levels

Last week, I blogged about business relationship management (BRM) (link) and how it can seriously help IT organizations who are struggling to meet business expectations around service quality, support, and anything else really. I gave you my first 5 tips, and now I’d like to follow up with the rest. Here we go… Tip 6: […]

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BRM Rocking it 1

My First 5 Tips for Using BRM to Rock Service Levels

Is your IT organization struggling to meet business expectations around service quality, support, or anything else? Then business [...]

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The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective Service Catalog Managers

IT service catalogs can make a big difference to IT organizations wanting to improve the end-user, or customer, experience. But it’s [...]

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ITSM 101

What ITSM Needs to Learn from DevOps Training

If you actively participate in the IT service management (ITSM) community, then you’ve probably heard the growing level of [...]

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Kaizen2

How to Use Kaizen to Drive Service Improvements (Part 2)

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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Kaizen to Drive Service

How to Use Kaizen to Drive Service Improvements (Part 1)

“Kaizen” might sound like a breakfast roll but don’t be fooled – it’s a philosophy and approach that aids continuous service [...]

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Chaos

8 Top Tips for Upping Your SAM Game and Software Compliance

Many IT organizations think it’s too difficult to take on software asset management (SAM), also called software license management [...]

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Self service ruler

Self-Service or Not, What We Can’t Measure Is Important Too

Questions around the performance of IT self-service, compared to more traditional IT support access and communication channels, opens [...]

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Post holiday rush

5 Tips for Coping with the Service Desk’s Post-Holiday Rush

Who doesn’t love the holidays? The feeling of goodwill, the great TV, seeing friends and family. How awesome is the holiday period? But [...]

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Inventory

7 Top Tips for Effective Inventory Management

In the IT service management (ITSM) world there’s often talk of the need for configuration management and configuration management [...]

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Highly Effective Release Managers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Release Managers

Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]

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Effective Configuration Managers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Configuration Managers

Configuration management and the configuration management database (CMDB) should play a key part in the IT service management (ITSM) [...]

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ITAM metrics

5 Top Tips for Better ITAM Metrics

IT asset management (ITAM) is a powerful IT management activity that saves your organization time and money and minimizes risk; but all [...]

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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.