Service Desk Articles

End User IT Support

An End-User’s View of IT Support When Working from Home

This article takes a look at some of the technology-based aspects of working from home from the end-user perspective. With the basis of the article formed around the home-working experiences of Claire, a project manager, who like many suddenly became a “forced” homeworker.
ITIL 4 risk management

Using ITIL 4 Risk Management

The global COVID-19 crisis has focused organizations on many things, including continuity planning and disaster recovery. However, it’s also highlighted the need for better risk management. This article from AXELOS looks at how various ITIL 4 practices will help your organization to better assess and manage risks.
ITSM Tools

Are ITSM Tools Still ITSM Tools?

This article looks at the current state of ITSM tools and their capabilities/use cases. Proposing new names for ITSM tools along the way. Before finally making a judgment call on the new name for ITSM tools. What do you think? Does your organization still want an ITSM tool or would a different name be better?
End-User Experience for IT

End-User Experience Management for IT is Now Essential

In this article, Sami Kallio shares what HappySignals data tells us about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on ITSM. For example, how are employees handling the new situation? Are they able to work? And what does IT support need to do differently?
COVID-19 ITSM

How COVID-19 Will Change ITSM – a Crowdsourced Perspective

In difficult times, while there needs to be attention on the firefighting at hand, it’s also good to look to the future. So, in this article we asked 36 people from all walks of ITSM to share their thoughts and opinions on how COVID-19 is going to impact the future of ITSM.
IT Staffing and Skills

The Impact of COVID-19 on IT Staffing and Skills

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a significant change to our patterns, both at work and from a personal perspective. Some people are finding themselves out of work, furloughed temporarily, or with an uncertain future due to the economic impact. Here Matthew Burrows explores its impact on on IT staffing in particular.
Adopting ITIL 4

Adopting ITIL 4: Moving Organizations from Theory to Practice 

This article looks to demonstrate the importance of the ITIL 4 service value system and how demand and opportunities enter the workflows in your organization. 
ITIL 4 a Crowdsourced Perspective

What Does 2020 Hold for ITIL 4 and Its Adoption?

What does a host of ITSM tool vendor personnel, industry analysts, and training service providers think the year ahead will hold for ITIL 4, when asked: “How do you see ITIL 4 impacting the ITSM industry over the next few years?”
Service Desk Reporting

It’s Time to Improve your IT Service Desk Reporting

If your organization is investing significant time in creating performance reports that aren’t being read or acted upon by your department, then it’s time to put that right. To help, this article provides five IT service desk reporting tips. Take a look!
ITIL 4 and VeriSM Compared

The Similarities and Differences between ITIL 4 and VeriSM

This article explores how the two service management approaches of ITIL 4 and VeriSM are either different or similar by going over their core concepts side-by-side – looking at governance, operational models, principles, and overall concepts.
Continual Improvement Register

Do You Need to Invest 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.
ITIL 4 and DevOps

How ITIL 4 Enhances Interoperability with Other Practices – Think ITIL 4 and 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

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?
ITIL Newbie Mistakes

6 Common ITIL Newbie Mistakes to Avoid

Are you back at work after completing your ITIL exams, wanting to make a difference by putting your newly minted ITSM qualification to work? Well, before you do, take the time to understand the mistakes that are commonly made by people, and their organizations, once ITIL qualified by reading this article.
ITSM 2020 Hot Topics

The 5 Hottest ITSM Trends and Topics for 2020

What will we all be concerned about in ITSM in 2020? To help, here’s a poll-results-based article that looks at what will be the hot trends and topics – in terms of reader interest – in 2020. If nothing else, you’ll probably be surprised at where some ITSM topic areas have been voted in at.