In terms of the IT service management (ITSM) opportunities available to organizations to improve their IT service delivery and support operations and outcomes, ITIL is definitely the most mature. It’s been used by organizations of all sizes around the world for over 30 years, with 2020’s ITIL 4 the most recent incarnation [...]
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It’s a generalization, admittedly, but how often does the excuse “people who have excelled at technology management get promoted to [...]
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The introduction of ITIL 4 in 2019 brought a focus on value co-creation and value streams over the traditional process-based approach [...]
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IT Asset Management (ITAM) is the practice that helps your organization manage, control, and protect its IT assets and the IT services [...]
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One of the key roles within the ITIL 4 change enablement process is that of approving changes so that the benefits can be delivered to [...]
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Sadly, the world still isn’t right – at least in 2019 terms – but at least there’s more breathing room for many organizations (albeit [...]
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Enterprise service management – the use of IT service management (ITSM) thinking, practices, and technology to improve the operations [...]
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As we enter 2020, many of us who are awaiting the higher-level, and more detailed, ITIL 4 best practice content (that’s the level above [...]
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In an earlier blog, I wrote about 5 key IT service management (ITSM) things for IT service desk managers to do in 2020. This is a [...]
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If you can still remember last year, then hopefully you’ll remember my A-Z of ITSM in 2020 blog in which I covered 26 of the most [...]
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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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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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A new version of the ITIL IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – ITIL 4 – was released early in 2019. It was big news [...]
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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.