The role of an IT service desk manager is an important one within IT service management (ITSM) but it isn’t a role that’s suitable to just anyone. IT service desk managers have an incredibly important and varied job, which requires a diverse skill set whereby missing just one of these skills can be detrimental (due […]
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A new version of the ITIL IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – ITIL 4 – was released early in 2019. It was big news [...]
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Mental health and wellbeing have become popular business-media topics in recent years and I’m really pleased to see that this focus has [...]
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Hey, did you hear that I’ve had an IT service management (ITSM) solution named after me? Oops, sorry it seems that this isn’t what I [...]
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Major incidents are stressful. They’re the boogiemen of IT issues, which adversely affect business operations and outcomes. ITIL 4 [...]
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Workplace stress has been a topic of research for many years but the condition itself seems to be on the rise – with one study finding [...]
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Working on the IT service desk is an excellent way to test the waters to see whether a career in IT is what you want. It’s an [...]
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VeriSM – marketed as “service management for the digital age” – has been called “the new kid in town” in the world of service [...]
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ITIL is often called the most popular framework for IT service management (ITSM) but its last update was in 2011 which, when we [...]
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COBIT is a framework designed to support the governance and management of enterprise IT. It helps organizations to deliver value to [...]
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IT service desks are probably the most measured – in terms of performance – part of the IT organization. And they, and their people are [...]
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There are three common IT service management (ITSM) areas where IT service desks often state that they’re struggling, or at least say [...]
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Once upon a time, there were only a few ways employees could get IT help. They could phone a help desk number, hoping to get a person [...]
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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.