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How Do You Choose an ITSM Consultant?

Posted by Stuart Rance
on September 8, 2021

How can you identify an ITSM consultant who will actually deliver targeted advice that will help you meet your goals, rather than generic advice that could have been delivered to any customer? Here’s how.

The State of Service Management 2021

Posted by Stephen Mann
on September 1, 2021

This article shares some of the key findings from the joint ITSMtools and Praecipio 2021 State of Service Management Report across five key areas of: business value, employee wellbeing, service management, technology, and experience and improvement.

How Do You Value Your Time (and the Time of Others)?

Posted by Paul Wilkinson
on August 25, 2021

Time is our most precious currency. It has a monetary value. But if time is our most precious currency, then why are we not treating it that way, and using the language of value when we talk about the way we spend it?

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