February 21, 2018 IT asset management is a necessary and important capability for any IT organization. It helps to manage costs, mitigate risks, and improve IT services. But how much ITAM are you doing? And how well are you doing it? If you need to start, or to do more, then this blog is for you. So, you […]
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February 14, 2018 Last week, I blogged about business relationship management (BRM) (link) and how it can seriously help IT organizations who are [...]
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February 7, 2018 Is your IT organization struggling to meet business expectations around service quality, support, or anything else? Then business [...]
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January 31, 2018 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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January 24, 2018 If you actively participate in the IT service management (ITSM) community, then you’ve probably heard the growing level of [...]
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January 17, 2018 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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January 10, 2018 “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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January 4, 2018 Many IT organizations think it’s too difficult to take on software asset management (SAM), also called software license management [...]
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December 18, 2017 Questions around the performance of IT self-service, compared to more traditional IT support access and communication channels, opens [...]
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December 13, 2017 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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December 6, 2017 In the IT service management (ITSM) world there’s often talk of the need for configuration management and configuration management [...]
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November 29, 2017 Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]
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November 1, 2017 Configuration management and the configuration management database (CMDB) should play a key part in the IT service management (ITSM) [...]
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