How to Engender an Experience Management Culture in Your IT Organization
This article by Sami Kallio explains why a culture change is needed to be successful with employee experience improvement and how to bring it about across the whole of IT.
What Has the Business got to Do with ITIL4?
Organizations must learn to deal with the unforgiving, harsh reality of business transformation and relentless change. How on Earth, does ITIL4 make a difference?
How Can ITSM Practitioners Improve Themselves?
We asked 35 industry authorities for their thoughts on how practitioners should be improving themselves next year. From widening their knowledge, skills, and experience to listening more, here’s what they had to say.
The Chatbot Manifesto
Looking for a little ‘secret sauce’ behind chatbot success? This chatbot manifesto provides a list of 20 ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ when it comes to using chatbots in your organization.
Digital Transformation and the Need for a Better Service Experience
Digital transformation efforts must be built around people and their expectations, not the technological capabilities that are now available. Here Sami Kallio discusses why introducing the right mechanisms and metrics, employing data-driven decision making, and driving the needed cultural change, is so important.
The 5 Simple Rules of Effective IT Governance
Follow the five simple rules described in this article by Steve Morgan to help you to prevent your organization from getting caught out by the common pitfalls when it comes to effective IT governance.
Selling Enterprise Service Management to Your Organization
Struggling to get started – or see success – with enterprise service management? This article will help, by sharing data and good practices related to what others are doing such that the potential of enterprise service management can be best articulated, and then delivered, to other business functions.
Story Points – Are They a Useful Agile Tool?
This article looks at how story points are used across organizations, with advice on their best application in respect of two common hindrances in the proper application of story points in agile teams.
The State of IT Self-Service
This article presents some of the key survey findings of our State of IT Self-Service in 2021 report, including how only one in five organizations (21%) reported that the expected ROI for their IT self-service investment was achieved.
Using Experience Feedback to Up IT Service Desk Analyst Motivation
Have you ever stopped to think about the effects – both positive and negative – of working on an IT service desk? This article digs into service-desk-analyst work motivation and how it impacts their performance.
When Is It Time to Change Your Service Management Solution?
Do you feel stuck with your current service management solution? Is it holding you back? This article via TOPdesk shares 8 signs that it might be time to move on and switch up your service management tool.
Giving Back to the IT Service Management Community – 10 Years On
Collectively we have the answers to most of the questions being asked by ITSM practitioners struggling to do the best job they can in making their organizations a success. If only we shared more – giving back to the ITSM community.
How Do You Choose an ITSM Consultant?
How can you identify an ITSM consultant who will actually deliver targeted advice that will help you meet your goals, rather than generic advice that could have been delivered to any customer? Here’s how.
The State of Service Management 2021
This article shares some of the key findings from the joint ITSMtools and Praecipio 2021 State of Service Management Report across five key areas of: business value, employee wellbeing, service management, technology, and experience and improvement.
How Do You Value Your Time (and the Time of Others)?
Time is our most precious currency. It has a monetary value. But if time is our most precious currency, then why are we not treating it that way, and using the language of value when we talk about the way we spend it?