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 not just a technology “thing.” Instead, those involved in making the IT service catalog a success need to ensure that they think from the customer point of view. In essence the service [...]
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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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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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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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October 25, 2017 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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October 4, 2017 Knowledge management is playing an increasingly important part in the IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, and in keeping businesses [...]
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September 27, 2017 Oftentimes it’s the every day things I do in my life that teach me about service management. So let me tell you what happened this [...]
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August 23, 2017 COBIT might have started life as a tool for IT auditors, and the requirement for IT-related internal controls (hey, there’s no need to [...]
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August 2, 2017 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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July 26, 2017 Welcome back to this SysAdmin Day + IT service desk lovefest blog! Following on from my previous post – which covered trust (in [...]
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July 19, 2017 It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day at the end of the month (July 28th to be specific), hooray for SysAdmins! It’s great that we [...]
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July 5, 2017 For around a decade now, businesses have been moving their software into cloud-based hosting at an ever increasing rate. This is not [...]
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