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Change Management Tips - DevSecOps

The Win(d)s of Change Management – DevSecOps

As part of helping your organization to take a practical and pragmatic approach to change management, the final article in this series looks at change and configuration management, and change management and DevSecOps.
IT Service Desks

What IT Service Desks Need to Do Now

This article by Patrick Bolger delves into four key steps for IT service desks to take to help drive their organizations out of the global pandemic and into a better 2021.
Here are the Key Service Desk Trends for 2021

IT Service Desk Trends for 2021

It was great to see that many IT service desks were a vital part of organizational resilience during 2020. But what happens next as we enter 2021? Here are 4 predictions.
ITSM Topics 2021

Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You Most in 2021?

Which ITSM topics would you like to see us writing content on in 2021? Please share with us which topics would interest you most by taking our quick poll. Your answers will help drive our content schedule in the year ahead.
Kaizen

Drive Your ITSM Improvements with Kaizen

This article by Joe the IT Guy takes a look at the benefits of Kaizen, the key roles involved, the Kaizen process, and how to get started with carrying out kaizen-based improvements.
Maturity Matrices

Maturity Matrices are Immature – I Hate Them!

Here Daniel Breston takes a look at IT service management Maturity Matrices and why predescribed ones will never work right for your organization, and how you should instead approach them.
Kanban

10 Tips for Getting Started with Kanban

Kanban is a popular work – or workflow – management tool, especially in the worlds of Lean, Agile, and Devops? But how do you get started with Kanban boards? And more importantly, how do you make them successful? This article provides 10 key tips to help.
ITSM trends

2021 ITSM Trends

How will ITSM, or service management per se, need to change in 2021? Or perhaps how it will be forced to change to reflect the radically different world that we now live and work in?
IT Support Improvement

IT Support: Improve Where It Matters the Most

Like most IT service desk leaders you probably want or need to improve your IT support capabilities and outcomes. But where should you focus your attention and resources? This article by David Stewart will help you to understand this.
Emergency Changes

Emergency Changes – How Preparation Helps to Reduce Risk

Here Joe the IT Guy shares three tips to consider, and apply, before committing your organization to the risk of an emergency change, from questioning the change’s emergency status to taking the time required to make the best decision possible.
Getting Work Done in IT

6 Steps for Getting Work Done in IT

There are some constant truths or guiding principles that every IT leader must recognize in managing inbound work and getting ‘stuff’ done says Steve Morgan. Here he shares 6.
Change Management - new thinking in change management

The Win(d)s of Change Management – new thinking in change management

This is the first in a three-part series of ITSM articles about the new thinking in change management that offers a practical and pragmatic approach to managing change in the new business and IT worlds.
SLAs

How to Create Better SLAs and ITSM Outcomes

If you’re currently unhappy with your service level agreements (SLAs) and how they help or hinder your IT service delivery and support, or if you don’t have effective ones, then check out this article offering up six tips for better SLAs.
Ambient Self-Servicing

Look Beyond Self-Service. Here Comes Self-Servicing

In the future you should not expect your end users to come to you. The best support experience is going to be the one that’s immediate, silent, invisible, and doesn’t impact the individual.
Why Employee Experience Matters

The Importance of Being Earnest (at Work): Why Employee Experience Matters

Creating the ‘joy of work’ and the ‘joy of working’ are two necessary conditions to creating a positive employee experience, says Akshay Anand. Here he dives deeper into why, as well as how using ITIL 4 guidance can help you to create an environment that is not only a pleasure to work in, but also one that offers rewarding and motivating work opportunities.