Author Archives: Joe the IT Guy


Up Your KEDB Game

8 Tips for Using a KEDB to Up Your Problem Management Game

Whether your organization uses ITIL or not, a known error database, or KEDB, is a surefire way to both improve your problem management practice and empower your IT support teams and customers alike. To help, this blog contains eight tips for using a KEDB that will up your IT service management (ITSM) game. But first […]

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Emergency Change Management Drama

Emergency Change Management: Please Stop The Drama

There’s a common change management quote that states something like: “Change is inevitable in any organization, but with change comes [...]

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A-Z of Automation

The A-Z of Automation

IT service management (ITSM) is changing. First thanks to new service management thinking and best practice such as ITIL 4. Second [...]

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Intro to COBIT

An Introduction to COBIT

COBIT, formerly known as Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, is a business framework for the governance and [...]

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IT service desk in 2020

How to Get Your IT Service Desk Ready for 2020

It’s hard to believe that 2020 is almost upon us and we will no longer get those “IT service management (ITSM) in 2020” blogs that were [...]

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FitSM Light Framework

FitSM: The Lightweight ITSM Standard

FitSM is one of the lesser-known IT service management (ITSM) standards – or, more correctly, it’s a family of standards – in [...]

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AIops Brain

Want to Get Started with AIOps? Here’s How

AIOps is becoming “the next big thing” in the IT management world because the technology employed, and IT operations, have changed [...]

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AIOps Explained

What is AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations)?

Quite simply AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is all about humans and machines coming together to form a more [...]

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Knowledge-Centered Service

The A – Z of Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS)

Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) is an IT service delivery and support capability that focuses on knowledge as a key asset of the IT [...]

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ITSM Best Practice

The Main Bodies of ITSM Best Practice Guidance

To help us IT service management (ITSM) folks get ahead, there are a number of ITSM best practice frameworks, methodologies, and [...]

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Build Better Relationships with Service Level Management

4 Tips on Using Service Level Management to Build Better Relationships

Service level management is one of the most important and necessary capabilities within IT service management (ITSM) but I’m going to [...]

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Everything You Need to Know About IT Support Chatbot Success

Chatbots are coming to the IT service desk, and why wouldn’t they? They’ve the potential to reduce workload for your agents, increase [...]

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IT Service Desk Manager Science

The Science of an IT Service Desk Manager

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 [...]

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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.