How often do you find yourself standing on the side of a snow-capped mountain, frozen to the spot while helplessly looking up at the rapidly growing and descending snowball of your IT nightmares? Metaphorically-speaking of course, but hopefully you get the point. What started out as a potentially insignificant issue has [...]
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Four and a half years is a long time in technology, but sadly not so much in IT service management (ITSM). Rather scarily, thinking [...]
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It’s important to be good at what you do. In practice that means striving to get better and better. This is a popular attitude and [...]
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When people think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and IT service management (ITSM), they immediately think of a “hosted ITSM tool,” [...]
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Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]
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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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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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In a previous blog I wrote a little about what change management is before offering seven tips for getting started with it. If you [...]
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I’ve previously written an “IT service management (ITSM) Basics” blog on change management that covers what it is, but I thought it’d [...]
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“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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As the central (perhaps even single) point of contact, and “the face of IT,” your IT service desk needs to be a powerhouse of [...]
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I recently worked with a service management organisation (in the manufacturing sector) that wanted to improve their service delivery. [...]
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IT guys are often happiest when something breaks and they have a root cause to find, investigate, and resolve. Sometimes, though, [...]
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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.