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Critical Ingredients for Running Your IT Department in 2020
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!
The Mistakes to Avoid When Integrating DevOps and ITSM
DevOps has changed the face of IT meeting the needs of business operations – from product design to the delivery stage. But the elephant in the room remains, in many cases, how to avoid a collision between DevOps and ITSM approaches. This article aims to help.
Want the 2019 Gartner ITSM Magic Quadrant for Free?
This article provides a list of free-to-access analyst reports (from the likes of Gartner, Forrester, and EMA) for 2019 that coincides with the publication of the most-coveted ITSM tool report going – the 2019 Gartner ITSM Magic Quadrant.
ITSM and Availability Management
Ah, availability management. It sounds very comforting because we all want availability – especially when something is needed. But how easy is the availability management practice in ITSM and the new ITIL 4 best practice? This article explores.
How ITSM, ITAM, and Security Teams Can Collaborate Around Asset Data
For ITSM, ITAM, and security teams IT asset data is essential, but it can often be generated in silos. Instead, these teams should collaborate to ensure that they have all the insight into assets that they need. This article explains how this can be achieved, with IT asset data available to meet the needs of all three of ITSM, ITAM, and security teams.
A Quick Overview of COBIT 2019
From it no longer being an acronym to how the update better addresses recent trends, if you want to know more about what COBIT 2019 is and involves, then this article will give you all the important stuff you need to know, as quickly as possible.
8 Tips for Starting with Digital Transformation
There’s a lot to consider with digital transformation. For instance, how should your organization get started? It’s a little similar to how to eat an elephant – one bite at a time. But which bites do you take first? To help your organization to get started with digital transformation, here we share eight tips.
How to Successfully Implement a New ITSM Tool
The fact is that you have to change various aspects of your existing practices in order to deliver the benefits you expect from any new ITSM tool, and that’s not easy. To help, here are five tips that range from using organizational change management tools and techniques to adopting continual improvement.
Do You Know the Main Reasons Organizations Change ITSM Tool?
The ITSM industry still sees a high level of ITSM tool churn. To better understand the main reasons why we ran a poll for anyone that had changed ITSM tool in the last two years. This article shares the results and also compares them against our previous ITSM tool churn polll, which we ran in 2017.
The Growing Importance of Knowledge to IT Support
We all know the value of knowledge management in helping IT support, but it’s important not to forget two additional use cases for ITSM knowledge and how it can make a big difference to the level of success for both IT self-service and the introduction of AI-enabled IT support capabilities. Here we explain more.
Training Your Staff to Use ITSM Tools: 5 Tips to Success
Selecting and implementing the right ITSM tool is one thing, but getting your staff to successfully use it is another. To assist you, here are five simple tips to help your staff to use your new ITSM tool successfully – from communicating the why to driving the right behaviors.
How to Use SAM to Create and Maintain your CMDB
While much has been written about the need for ITSM and ITAM to work closely together, in this article Rory Canavan goes a step further to explain how software asset management can add value to ITSM’s service configuration management practice.