ITIL Articles
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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From not overlooking self service options for service requests, to providing training, to categorizing service requests on receipt, this article shares 20 service request management tips for success.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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This article provides an overview of what Organizational Change Management (OCM) is and why it’s important. Plus it offers some practical advice as to what organizational change management should involve. Read it here.
- Posted by Gilad Maayan
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ITIL documentation can take many forms. This article shares some examples, along with five ways it can boost ITSM success.
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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This article shares the results of our 2024 content poll, insights into how ITSM trends have changed, trend-related opinions, and links to existing ITSM.tools content that might still be helpful.
- Posted by Sophie Danby
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Every year, ITSM.tools runs a quick, one-question poll to understand the “ITSM help” readers would like in the year ahead. Please help by taking this years poll to tell us which topics will be important to you in the year ahead.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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If you’re wondering which of the ITIL processes/practices to adopt next, this article looks at what other organizations have done. It’s a small sample size but the distribution of each process across adoption phases is very interesting.
- Posted by Vawns Murphy
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Here we look at where incident management stops and problem management begins, and the difference between the two – with help from Batman and Columbo.
- Posted by Hadi Ahmadi (Soroush)
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This article explains how managing vendors and suppliers using ITIL supplier management can help businesses improve their operations and the benefits, challenges, and solutions associated with this approach.
- Posted by Vawns Murphy
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This article looks at tips for managing your change process – from successful communication, to how to handle your change advisory board, and more.
- Posted by Hadi Ahmadi (Soroush)
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This article covers everything you need to know about ITIL service portfolio management. Specifically, what a service portfolio is, how it works, and how it can be implemented to improve ITSM.
- Posted by David Barrow
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Read about how ITIL 4’s value-based outcome-focused approach provides us with skills that are genuinely transferrable. These skills can be applied to co-create value in an era where change increasingly comes quickly, lacking predictability and clarity with VUCA situations shifting our operations.
- Posted by Vawns Murphy
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Here Vawns Murphy shares 13 top tips for dealing with a major incident that don’t involve hiding under your desk, chain smoking, or drinking a bottle of vodka. Read it here.
- Posted by Simon Kent
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The interest in value has made a significant leap to the top spot for 2023 in the poll of what ITSM.tools readers want to hear about most. Here Simon Kent shares his opinions on value and ITSM.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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Has anything changed with the traditional levels of ITSM tool churn? It’s time to get more industry data or, to be more precise, to obtain up-to-date insight into the state of ITSM tools and why organizations need to change ITSM tool. Please take this poll.
- Posted by Stephen Mann
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We’ve been talking about enterprise service management since 2008, value since at least 2011, and employee experience since 2013. Yet we’re still listing them as ‘trends for 2023’. Something needs to change… this article explores.