Service Desk Articles

IT Asset Management Myths and Unicorns

Debunking the Common IT Asset Management Myths

All too often people view IT asset management as an unnecessary expense or they find a multitude of excuses (which are often based on myths) that prevent them from investing time, effort, and money in ITAM capabilities. So this article aims to debunk said myths, and overlay the facts over the fiction.
Supporting Digital Transformation with ITSM and ITIL 4

ITSM and ITIL 4 for Digital Transformation Initiatives

What is the role of ITSM in supporting an organization’s journey to digital transformation in 2020 and beyond? This article explores.
ITSM trends

ITSM Trends in 2020 – the Crowdsourced Perspective

This article brings together the 2020 opinions of a variety of people from 18 ITSM tool vendors and two support-professional membership bodies. These are people who have, if you stop to think about it, their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in the ITSM industry right now…
Service Management in 2020 Key Challenges

Service Management in 2020 – the 6 Key Challenges

This article looks at a recent report that offers guidance to IT departments entitled “Brex-IT – How will public sector IT cope in 2020?” and discusses how the challenges highlighted within the report are applicable to service management in 2020.
ITSM Topics in 2020

Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You Most in 2020?

At the start of this year, we asked our readers to vote on the ITSM-related content topics that they’d like to see helpful content published on in 2019 – this was used to guide our content throughout the year. Now, as we enter 2020, we’re doing the same thing again. Please take 30 seconds to vote.
ITIL v3 to ITIL 4 Journey

ITIL v3 to ITIL 4 – IT Service Management Value Co-Creation

Following the launch of ITIL 4 Foundation, the first stage of the ITIL update, AXELOS has now released the ITIL 4 Managing Professional Transition module. This article looks at its key concepts, who they’re applicable to, and provides advice on how to transition from ITIL v3 to ITIL 4.
ITSM Trends for 2020

The Top ITSM Trends for 2020

Throughout 2019 there was a lot of buzz around ‘trends’ such as digital transformation, AI, and continued cloud adoption. So the question is, will 2020 be more of the same? Or should we expect to see new trends and focuses in the world of ITSM?
Why Continual Improvement in ITSM is More Important Than You Think

Why Continual Improvement in ITSM is Important

Take a moment to think about continual improvement – you could think about the ongoing need, the concepts behind it, or you could just start with the words themselves – continual, improvement, and service for good measure.  Here Joe the IT Guy takes a closer look using a rather yummy cake analogy.
Service Catalog

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 on how to best exploit a service catalog as a multifaceted ITSM capability.
IT Service Desk Knowledge Management

How to Improve Your IT Service Desk 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 knowledge management journey.
Running Your IT Department

Critical Ingredients for Running Your IT Department

Here Steve Morgan shares nine critical ingredients for running your IT department in 2020 and beyond – and fear not, because the advice contained herein is just as relevant in 2020, as it was in 2010, and as it will be in 2030; with people being the number one important factor!
Here’s How to Make Your ITSM and IT Support Metrics Work Better

Here’s How to Make Your ITSM and IT Support Metrics Work Better

Have your metrics got too much of an internal focus? Perhaps your SLAs are seen as the adjudicator of performance success? Or maybe you do nothing with performance metrics? Read this article for some simple suggestions to make your ITSM and IT support metrics work better for you and your customers.
ITIL 4 Dummies

ITIL 4 Dummies – IT Service Management Help

Here Paul Wilkinson shares his “ITIL 4 Dummies” – it’s not meant to be derogatory, but instead is an attempt to get us to think, and draw some sensible conclusions, about the way we adopt ITIL. It’s time to stop being a “dummy” and stop giving too little thought or judgment as to what value you’re hoping ITIL will deliver.
User Experience on the IT Service Desk

How to Improve User Experience on the IT Service Desk

Internally focused performance-based metrics are essential and remain relevant, but they don’t provide any insight into the user experience. To gain actual insight into user satisfaction, you need to change your metrics. Here we explain how, and the best way to go about it.
IT Service Desk Challenges

5 Key IT Service Desk Challenges and How to Overcome Them

It sort of goes without saying that your IT service desk is currently facing a number of challenges that affect its ability to serve and support employees and customers. To help, this article looks at five key service desk challenges in more detail as well as how to overcome them.