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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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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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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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Effective Knowledge Managers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Knowledge Managers

Knowledge management is playing an increasingly important part in the IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, and in keeping businesses [...]

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Two jobs to service management

Service Management Isn’t One Job, It’s Two

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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Cobit

COBIT 101 – So Much More Than “Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies”

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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Effective Problem Management

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Problem Managers

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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Love your IT service desk

Another 5 Reasons to Love Your IT Service Desk

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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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.