ITSM Articles

IT Service Catalog

Tips for an IT Service Catalog for High Employee Engagement

This article offers up four tips to assist with the creation of your organization’s IT service catalog, from using the ‘menu’ concept through to writing your service catalog content with your end users in mind. Read the tips here.
Well-being in ITSM

Well-being in ITSM – How Big is the Issue?

In the 2019 Future of ITSM survey, just over half of respondents felt that working in IT is adversely affecting their personal wellbeing. Coupled with the increasing number of people that we know and love in ITSM opening up about their experiences of wellbeing issues, ITSM.tools felt that the ITSM industry needs to at least find out how big the issue is.
How ITSM, ITAM, and Security Teams Can Collaborate

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.
Digital Transformation Thinking

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.
Good ITSM Hygiene

Why Good ITSM Hygiene is Essential for Successful AI Adoption

The fact is that if the data and information captured within your knowledge articles or incident records or other ITSM artifacta is of poor quality, then the resulting actions (using AI) will likely be of poor quality. Here Doug Tedder explains how to avoid this and practice good ITSM hygiene.
Implementing an ITSM Tool

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.
ITSM Tool Churn Results

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.
Reading Knowledge

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.
CMDB Software Asset Management (SAM)

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.
Putting Your ITIL Qualification to Use

8 Tips for Putting Your ITIL Qualification into Practice 

If you’ve just taken your ITIL Foundation Certification exam or if you’ve still to take it and are thinking about how best to use your learning in the workplace, then this article is for you. Take a read of these eight tips for putting your new ITIL learning into practice.
Benefits of Self-Service

5 Key Benefits of Self-Service for IT

Notwithstanding the fact that a dollar saved by IT through badly-implemented self-service might incur an extra two dollars of costs from an end-user perspective, cost savings are not the only driver for self-service and, for many, it’s not the most important benefit. Here we look at the other additional benefits.
Why & What Change Management Is in ITSM

Why & What Change Management Is in ITSM: Purpose, Definitions, and Best Practices

Where does one start when looking at change management or change control as it’s now known in ITIL 4? It can be very daunting at the outset, but the steps outlined in this article should help to get you started, along with example KPIs to help you measure your success.
XLAs: Rethinking End-User KPIs for ITSM

From SLAs to XLAs: Rethinking End-User KPIs for ITSM

Are you still using the same old metrics, key performance indicators, and reactive processes to manage new and modern technologies? It’s time to broaden the scope of your metrics towards XLAs, here David D’Agostino looks at why and how to move past traditional SLAs.
Will AI Unlock Self-Help?

ITSM Futures: Will AI Unlock Self-Help?

This article by Roy Atkinson takes a deep dive into recent HDI research to shed some light on the current state of knowledge management, the reasons organizations have decided to provide self-help, how they provide that help, and what some of the barriers to improvement are.
Service Request Processes

7 Tips to Optimize Service Request Processes for Digital Transformation

This article asks how we can possibly expect to achieve our digital transformation agenda without basic service request management building blocks in place, and offers up seven tips for optimizing your service request management capabilities as part of your organization’s digital transformation activities.