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Category | ITSM
Service Management in 2020 – the 6 Key Challenges
Patrick Bolger
Dec. 05, 2019
This article looks at a recent report that offers guidance to IT deparments entitled "Brex-IT – How will public sector IT cope in 2020?" and discusses how the challenges highlighted within the report are applicable to service management in 2020.
Category | Hot Topics
How to Differentiate Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
Frank Hamilton
Dec. 03, 2019
People often tend to misunderstand the many terms used with artificial intelligence (AI), such as AI itself, machine learning, deep learning, and others. As such, this article aims to help you differentiate and understand the various roles these capabilities can play in IT service management.
Category | ITSM
Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You Most in 2020?
Sophie Danby
Nov. 28, 2019
At the start of this year, we asked our readers to vote on the ITSM-related content topics that they’d like to see helpful content published on in 2019 - this was used to guide our content throughout the year. Now, as we enter 2020, we're doing the same thing again. Please take 30 seconds to vote.
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Service Desk Articles
Joe The IT Guy
Oct. 17, 2019
3 Ways to Benefit from a Service Catalog
Done well, a service catalog will act as a single, consistent source of information to employees for all of the IT and business services available to them. But how should your organization leverage a service catalog? This article shares advice...
Pablo Vergne
Oct. 10, 2019
How to Improve Your IT Service Desk’s Knowledge Management
Want to know what IT service desks that succeed with knowledge management do differently? Here we share eight tips based on what successful IT service desks have done to achieve their knowledge management success to help you on your own...
Joe The IT Guy
Oct. 01, 2019
Here’s How to Make Your ITSM and IT Support Metrics Work Better
Have your metrics got too much of an internal focus? Perhaps your SLAs are seen as the adjudicator of performance success? Or maybe you do nothing with performance metrics? Read this article for some simple suggestions to make your ITSM...
ITSM Articles
Patrick Bolger
Dec. 05, 2019
Service Management in 2020 – the 6 Key Challenges
This article looks at a recent report that offers guidance to IT deparments entitled "Brex-IT – How will public sector IT cope in 2020?" and discusses how the challenges highlighted within the report are applicable to service management in 2020.
Sophie Danby
Nov. 28, 2019
Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You Most in 2020?
At the start of this year, we asked our readers to vote on the ITSM-related content topics that they’d like to see helpful content published on in 2019 - this was used to guide our content throughout the year. Now, as we...
Nicole Garrison
Nov. 21, 2019
The Top ITSM Trends for 2020
Throughout 2019 there was a lot of buzz around 'trends' such as digital transformation, AI, and continued cloud adoption. So the question is, will 2020 be more of the same? Or should we expect to see new trends and focuses...