As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be thinking about: job security, maybe even a promotion or pay raise, or loving what you do in your role. But what I’m talking – OK, writing – about here are (hopefully) some […]
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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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Update since publication: The latest version of ITIL – ITIL 4 – was released on Monday 18th February. To find out what is actually [...]
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Change management is one of the most necessary, misunderstood, and all-too-often misused IT service management (ITSM) disciplines. If [...]
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Have you ever wondered why new-job “probation periods” are often three to six months? This seems awfully long to me. However, I do [...]
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Ever wanted to know more about service integration and management (affectionately known as SIAM)? Well, if you have, then your luck is [...]
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A known error database (KEDB) is a place for your organization’s IT department to store all of its “known errors.” “Known what’s?” I [...]
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In my previous blog, I wrote about how to recognize and deal with the issues associated with watermelon service level agreements [...]
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When applications and infrastructure run out of capacity, they adversely impact services and business operations. To mitigate this [...]
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If you keep hearing about the concept of “shift-left” within IT service management (ITSM), and for the IT service desk in particular, [...]
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IT asset management and IT service management are IT management siblings, yet they often don’t play together as much as they could. [...]
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In my previous blog I offered up 5 service and integration management (SIAM) tips (as well as a quick refresher as to what SIAM is). [...]
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Have you ever been asked: “What’s a service?” It might seem a strange, or even silly, question to ask someone who’s already managing, [...]
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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.