If you’ve attended an ITIL Foundation course, you’ll remember learning about emergency changes, and the role of the ECAB – the emergency change advisory board. In many cases, the ECAB is presented as something of a “rubber stamp,” helping a change manager “cover their back” by getting an emergency action signed off by [...]
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In IT, one of our biggest (maybe even our favorite?) grumble, every year, is how the business expects us to deliver more for less. So [...]
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As more companies move to adopt DevOps practices to improve IT performance (my company included), I was thinking to myself – is it [...]
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Is your organization thinking about creating a service catalog and service request catalog (or starting over with it again)? It can be [...]
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Really, what IS customer experience (or CX for short)? Most explanations refer to a customer interacting with a business and its [...]
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IT service management (ITSM) is constantly evolving, and over the 20 or so years that the term has been in common use, the scope has [...]
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In my previous blog, I offered up eight tips for getting started with self-service. Here I offer another seven. 9. Plan Ahead for [...]
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Self-service for IT is one of those things that’s relatively easy to “do” but not so easy to get right, i.e. to deliver a capability [...]
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Probably the most famous IT service desk in the world is the fictional one in The IT Crowd. The business doesn’t understand it, the [...]
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Whether you ask for your pizza with extra “tom-mah-toe” or “toe-may-toe,” the end result is going to be the same – extra tomatoes on [...]
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It’s that time of the week, month, year; your service desk report is due and you’re drowning in spreadsheets and graphs. Yes, you could [...]
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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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Maintaining a 5-star service desk relies on the continual assessment, and potential improvement, of the service you offer. But it can [...]
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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.