Whether your organization is planning to stay with ITIL v3 for a while or to quickly move to ITIL 4’s new view of IT service management (ITSM) best practice, there’s a definite need to factor in aspects of DevOps to your change and release practices. DevOps and ITIL’s Service Transition (as was in ITIL v3) […]
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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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If you consistently say the words “strategy” and “strategic,” this means that you sound smart, right? Oh my. If I had a dollar for [...]
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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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The service catalog is one of the most useful technology products in IT service management (ITSM) today. Done well, it acts as a [...]
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Hopefully you saw my COBIT 2019 blog in November – but when I wrote it I hadn’t seen the detail of what had changed in this new version [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be [...]
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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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One day real soon, machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will deliver on what they promise and truly help IT [...]
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Once upon a time, there were only a few ways employees could get IT help. They could phone a help desk number, hoping to get a person [...]
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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.