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Do You Need to Invest More in Your Continual Improvement Register?
When undertaking continual improvement it’s advisable to have a list of what you’d like to improve, which ITIL 4 calls a Continual Improvement register, and this article by Joe the IT Guy looks at what’s needed to keep your continual improvement register useful.
How ITIL 4 Enhances Interoperability with Other Practices Such as DevOps
This article takes a look at the change in mindset that comes with ITIL 4 and how “value” is positioned as a central element rather than a “service” as in ITIL v3. Plus three ways that it works better with other approaches such as DevOps.
ITIL 4 Adoption – Where Are We Right Now?
With ITIL 4 the most requested ITSM topic for our 2020 articles, we've kicked off a short survey to look at how quickly the ITSM industry is likely to move with ITIL 4 adoption (and/or transition). It's completely anonymous, so please kindly spare us one minute of your time to complete it?
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Service Desk Articles
Do You Need to Invest More in Your Continual Improvement Register?
When undertaking continual improvement it’s advisable to have a list of what you’d like to improve, which ITIL 4 calls a Continual Improvement register, and this article by Joe the IT Guy looks at what’s needed to keep your continual...
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...
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...
ITSM Articles
How to Run Your Cloud with ITSM Guardrails
This article looks at how organizations can “wrap the cloud with ITSM” for most end users - which helps to create governance “guardrails” for its use. These guardrails simultaneously make the cloud “easier to eat” while also ensuring that it’s...
Which IT Support and ITSM Roles Does Your Organization Have and Need?
Are you a little confused by vast array of common IT support and ITSM roles? If you want to better understand your support center managers to your ITSM process owners, this article by industry authority Roy Atkinson is for you.
ITSM in 2020 – It’s Time to Get Focused on the Right Things
This isn't yet another article listing out five or more things that ITSM pros should be focused on in 2020; instead it looks at helping you identify three things that you need to concentrate your efforts on in 2020 for...