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In-person ITSM Events

SITS 2022: Why I’m Excited for the Return of In-person ITSM Events

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on our community. It was rough, and now that the world is returning to normal, here are some things to look forward to at in-person ITSM events such as SITS 2022.
ITSM Blog Sites

40 of the Best ITSM Blog Sites

Here Sophie Danby shares a list of what she believes are currently the best ITSM blog sites including vendors, member organizations and consultancies. There’s 40 in total. Read the list here.
Machine Learning

How Reliable is Machine Learning in AIOps?

What happens when machine learning leads to the crash of your IT systems, shuts down servers and applications, or takes actions you cannot have control over? Machine learning is the foundation of AIOps and automation, but to what extent can we depend on it, and how reliable is it?
AI Improves Knowledge Sharing

How AI Improves Knowledge Sharing in ITSM

Knowledge hoarding is a big challenge organizations face today. To this end, AI-enabled tools have considerable potential to manage data and help organizations to transform people’s experiences and knowledge accumulated over time into collective knowledge for the organization.
Patch Management

How to Improve the Patch Management Process

The typical patch management process consists of much more than simply implementing the update. Alongside the physical deployment, each organization will have its own change management process. This work can be tedious, thankless, and time-consuming. This article offers help to make patching easier.
IT Helpdesk Issues and Automation

Solving Simple IT Helpdesk Issues with Automation

Have you not changed your ITSM tool in years because making minor changes is too cumbersome and expensive? Then it might be time to move on. The good news is that most modern ITSM tools provide task automation and easy reporting to save valuable time and resources.
Zoom Fatigue

4 Tips to Cure Zoom Fatigue with ITSM

How can you combat the downsides of remote and hybrid work? Nancy Louisnord shares four tips for how an effective service management and knowledge management strategy can help.
Employee Experience and IT Support 

What Employee Experience Really Means for IT Support 

If you work in, manage, or are responsible for the performance of an IT support team – whether in-house or outsourced – and are looking to understand better how the increasing profile of, and demands related to, employee experience affects it, then this blog is for you. 
ITSM Misinformation

ITSM Misinformation and the (ITSM) Walking Dead

Have you ever been told that your business must do something because ITIL/Agile/DevOps, etc. “says so”? If the answer is ‘yes,’ you have been exposed to the zombie experience virus… though most people don’t realize it.
SIAM and SLAs

SIAM and SLAs

This article looks at SLAs in a SIAM world. That to succeed (with SIAM), your organization’s service architecture model must be well understood, with the third-party service providers, the SIAM function, and internal service providers working well together.
Hottest ITSM Trends for 2022

The 5 Hottest ITSM Trends (and Topics) for 2022

We asked our readers which topic areas they and their fellow ITSM practitioners would like content-related help with in 2022, and here we share the results.
2022 and Employee Experience 

What 2022 Needs to Know About Employee Experience 

This article shares five key insights from The Global IT Experience Benchmark Report™ H2/2021, including how self-service portals are no longer the least liked IT touchpoint and how badly service desk ticket bounces are affecting your users.
Everything You Need to Know About Being an ITSM Pro

(Nearly) Everything You Need to Know About Being an ITSM Pro

To help other ITSM professionals from making the same mistakes, wasting time and effort, and putting business value at risk, here Paul Wilkinson shares his advice from a 40+ year career in the industry.
Understanding Risks Improves Decision-making

Why Understanding Risks Improves Your Decision-making

Decision-making is such a critical business component that any decision-making is to be encouraged as long as you learn and adapt based on the outcome. And here there’s an important link to understanding risks.
ITSM in 2022

ITSM in 2022: Trends to Watch Now

In 2022 ITSM professionals need to take more time to think through their long-term strategy and lay the groundwork for future improvements. Here TOPdesk details what to expect.

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