For ITSM, ITAM, and security teams IT asset data is essential, but it can often be generated in silos. Instead, these teams should collaborate to ensure that they have all the insight into assets that they need. This article explains how this can be achieved, with IT asset data available to meet the needs of all three of ITSM, ITAM, and security teams.
From it no longer being an acronym to how the update better addresses recent trends, if you want to know more about what COBIT 2019 is and involves, then this article will give you all the important stuff you need to know, as quickly as possible.
There’s a lot to consider with digital transformation. For instance, how should your organization get started? It’s a little similar to how to eat an elephant – one bite at a time. But which bites do you take first? To help your organization to get started with digital transformation, here we share eight tips.
The fact is that you have to change various aspects of your existing practices in order to deliver the benefits you expect from any new ITSM tool, and that’s not easy. To help, here are five tips that range from using organizational change management tools and techniques to adopting continual improvement.
The ITSM industry still sees a high level of ITSM tool churn. To better understand the main reasons why we ran a poll for anyone that had changed ITSM tool in the last two years. This article shares the results and also compares them against our previous ITSM tool churn polll, which we ran in 2017.
We all know the value of knowledge management in helping IT support, but it’s important not to forget two additional use cases for ITSM knowledge and how it can make a big difference to the level of success for both IT self-service and the introduction of AI-enabled IT support capabilities. Here we explain more.
Selecting and implementing the right ITSM tool is one thing, but getting your staff to successfully use it is another. To assist you, here are five simple tips to help your staff to use your new ITSM tool successfully – from communicating the why to driving the right behaviors.
While much has been written about the need for ITSM and ITAM to work closely together, in this article Rory Canavan goes a step further to explain how software asset management can add value to ITSM’s service configuration management practice.
Are you still using the same old metrics, key performance indicators, and reactive processes to manage new and modern technologies? It’s time to broaden the scope of your metrics towards XLAs, here David D’Agostino looks at why and how to move past traditional SLAs.
Leading a team through change can be tough. What if something doesn’t work as well as it did before? What if we create bigger problems? What if, what if…? But change doesn’t have to be scary – this article looks at the positive side of change and provides four tips for leading your ITSM employees through it.
Have you spent enough time and energy assessing the quality of your ITSM data? No? This article explains why you, as an ITSM leader, need to prioritize and address your organization’s data quality issues, including poor data quality in ITSM.
If you’ve changed your ITSM tool in the last two years, or are planning to, please can you spare us 30 seconds to let us know why? We last ran this poll in 2017, and will be using the latest results to report on whether or not the key drivers for switching tool have or haven’t changed over the years.