Category: General IT
3 of the Hottest Technology Buzzwords of 2017 Explained
As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. You appreciate that there’s a lot of change and innovation happening but when it gets talked about you might not necessarily understand everything that’s being said. Of course, you could rely [...]
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Why IT Has to Do More with Less Every Single Year
In IT, one of our biggest (maybe even our favorite?) grumble, every year, is how the business expects us to deliver more for less. So [...]
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10 Things You Need to Know to Set the Right ITSM Agenda for 2017
It really is an exciting time to be in IT service management (ITSM) – and not just because I’m here. The accelerated development of [...]
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Cloud Bite Point: A Literary Look at the ITSM Challenges for 2017
The end of the year is often a time to reflect on our past, from the year just gone to even further back in time, and then to look to [...]
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Agile Service Management: Can ITSM Truly Be Agile?
It sometimes feels like the phrase “Do more, with less” has been with us since we started delivering technology-enabled solutions to [...]
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Uncovering and Managing the Customer Experience
My previous blog talked about what customer experience actually IS, along with a video that followed my learning cycle. We saw that [...]
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What Is Customer Experience?
Really, what IS customer experience (or CX for short)? Most explanations refer to a customer interacting with a business and its [...]
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Why BYOD Is a “Result” for ITSM
Bring your own device (BYOD), or even BYOX appears to be an emerging norm in many organizations. It is a function of multiple factors: [...]
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5 Behind-the-Scene Stages of Dealing with an Incident
I’ve been talking a lot about getting back to basics with incidents and all other things IT service management (ITSM) related – and [...]
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You Say Tomato: Help Desk vs. Service Desk
Whether you ask for your pizza with extra “tom-mah-toe” or “toe-may-toe,” the end result is going to be the same – extra tomatoes on [...]
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Dead Bodies and Minefields on the Wrong Paths to Cloud
There is a promised path to the cloud. One that feels familiar to hardware and software vendors, and to their armies of certified [...]
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Cloud 101 – And Not Just for Dummies
The cloud deliberately hides the technical and operational complexity from consumers so they can get on with their real jobs. The [...]
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Resilience Engineering and the Five Missing Teeth of Availability Management
“Do as I say, not as I do” is an instruction that most children are familiar with. Their questions receive the shriek “Because I’m your [...]
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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.