Whether your organization uses ITIL or not, a known error database, or KEDB, is a surefire way to both improve your problem management practice and empower your IT support teams and customers alike. To help, this blog contains eight tips for using a KEDB that will up your IT service management (ITSM) game. But first […]
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FitSM is one of the lesser-known IT service management (ITSM) standards – or, more correctly, it’s a family of standards – in [...]
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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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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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It’s finally arrived – ITIL 4. And with it, we see the demise and laying to rest of the venerable and frankly vulnerable service [...]
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Yes, I’m still writing about the three ways of DevOps. Following on from my earlier blogs about using the DevOps first and second ways [...]
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Following on from my blog about using the DevOps first way to improve ITIL change and release practices by increasing flow, my latest [...]
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VeriSM – marketed as “service management for the digital age” – has been called “the new kid in town” in the world of service [...]
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So, here’s the thing. We all know that we’re supposed to be leaning into digitalization but, for many people, the real question is: How [...]
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ITIL is often called the most popular framework for IT service management (ITSM) but its last update was in 2011 which, when we [...]
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You might have noticed that something changed with the Force, sorry ITIL, last month – with the ITIL 4 update releasing its first [...]
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At the end of last year, the service management standard ISO/IEC 20000, usually referred to as simply ISO 20000, was given a revision. [...]
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What happened to 2018? It’s probably my age – I’m older than I look – but we seem to be clocking up the years in IT service management [...]
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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.