Not too long ago, in the IT service management (ITSM) minefield that is LinkedIn groups, a service delivery manager asked: “When is an incident not an incident?” The service delivery manager’s dilemma, in more detail, was that: “I have a situation where a regular outage occurs on a critical service on a daily basis, [...]
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Work can consume a significant part of our lives and, for the majority of us, it’s important to feel that we are appreciated for what [...]
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I was asked by my superiors, of which I have many, to write a blog about CSI. But for some reason SysAid’s content editor, the amazing [...]
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Can you feel the excitement? All of the hard work is paying off – our ITSM house that we’ve been building is taking shape! In Part 1 [...]
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Is IT service management (ITSM) under attack from the technology “unicorns” and things like DevOps and Lean? Many of the articles we [...]
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In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some things to think about before you even get your hammer, saw, and trusty tool belt out to [...]
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There are many different interpretations of service catalogue – in terms of what it is and how it delivers value. The concept has [...]
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Have you found your trusty hard hat and tool belt? I hope so, because I’m back and ready to start diving into the details of building [...]
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Would you build a house by starting with the roof? Well of course not! Yet many ITSM implementations I hear about want to start with [...]
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Be warned, this blog looks to the future of IT service management (ITSM), ITSM tools, and ITSM data. You might need to click through on [...]
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I must be mixing with the wrong crowd as some of my blogs have gone a little bit “out there” of late. This time I want to look at how [...]
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In my last blog we looked at some of the things you can do to plan ahead for your IT service management (ITSM) tool implementation – [...]
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Hold on to your hats, lil’ ol’ Joe is about to get all technical on you … Demand for IT is unpredictable in what is now a digital, [...]
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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.