Women in IT

Why Are There So Few Women in IT?

Although we’re now well into the 21st century, the goals of the gender-equality movement have still to be accomplished, especially in the field of IT – with the number of women working in corporate IT organizations still remarkably low. In the UK, for example, it’s a paltry 27%, according to a report from the UK […]

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Business continuity, disaster recovery (BC/DR)

Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, and ITSM Are Not Mutually Exclusive

We have all had, or have heard about, IT horror stories that have caused businesses to go into unplanned panic (and most likely to be [...]

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ITIL Practitioner Guidance

8 Things that Stand Out in the New ITIL Practitioner Guidance Book

It’s not often that I admit to being excited by a new ITIL publication – the popular IT service management (ITSM) best practice [...]

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From pitch perfect to continual service improvement

How to Crush Service Desk Complaints by Boosting Your Capabilities with Continual Service Improvement

Long blog title, I know, but hopefully it got your attention. You might be thinking “IT service desk complaints and continual service [...]

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ITIL needs cybernetics

Dear Axelos, ITIL Needs Cybernetics

In ITIL 2011 – an IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – there’s five books covering nearly thirty ITSM processes. And [...]

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Cyber security weaknesses

Building New Security on the Old Foundation

The IT press and social media make it clear that our world is getting riskier every day, making cyber security the new flavor of the [...]

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Availability Management

Availability Management Is Harder Than It Looks

Everyone understands the need for availability of services. I mean, we all want our power services to be there, right? OK, maybe some [...]

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Continual Service Improvement

Seven Essential Components of a Successful Improvement Program

Introduction If you’re following IT service management (ITSM) trends, you’ll have noticed continuous improvement is “the new black,” [...]

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Customer Service on the Help Desk

7 Simple Tips to Improve Customer Service on the Help Desk

Sometimes people ask me for advice on how to improve their help desk operations and customer service, expecting me to say that they [...]

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ITIlL mistakes

6 Reasons Why You’re Going Wrong With ITIL

Congratulations, you’re a newly-certified ITIL* professional – eager to start adopting the ITIL framework in your organization. You’ve [...]

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Add Hubot to Your ITSM Team

As part of the rapid growth in social media adoption, Twitter reignited a “chat revolution” and triggered a resurgence in internet [...]

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School ITIL

13 ITSM Tips They Don’t Always Tell You at ITIL School

Last year, my good friend Earl Begley wrote an interesting blog called “Things I didn’t learn in ITIL school.” Earl’s blog detailed [...]

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Tribal knowledge 2

ITSM Basics: How to Do Configuration Management – Part 2

Last week, in Part 1 of my two-part series on configuration management, I covered what configuration management is and the importance [...]

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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.