Using ITSM Tools for Cloud Governance
ITSM practitioners, practices, and tools should be considered important guardrails to add to any cloud adoption project. And there are no excuses for an ungoverned cloud. This article explains the importance of ITSM guardrails for cloud governance and lists several key tools and practices to put those guardrails on the cloud.
Why isn’t Agile Part of Your Business Continuity Approach?
Are traditional business continuity planning and management practices dated? Daniel Breston thinks so. In this article, he explains many of the common business continuity issues and how blending in newer IT management approaches such as DevOps will help.
Advice for Common Remote Communication and Collaboration Issues
Without effective remote communication and collaboration skills and enabling toolsets, our businesses face risks and our employees will experience some or all of stress, frustration, fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Here, Paul Wilkinson explores the issues and the solutions in more detail.
Building an IT Service Management (ITSM) Maturity Model
Has your organization considered taking a maturity model approach to the improvement of its ITSM capabilities? To help you to understand the opportunity, this article quickly explains the key aspects of maturity model use as part of a service improvement health check.
How Do You Choose the Right ITSM Tool?
Choosing a new ITSM tool is a time-consuming and costly activity, after all selecting the wrong tool will inevitably cause our organization significant issues. To help, this article examines the ten key characteristics of a good tool selection process and highlight some of the pitfalls you’re likely to encounter along the way.
#ITSM: 7 Key Ingredients for Continual Improvement
Continuous (or continual) improvement is something that every IT organization should have embedded in its practices. With that in mind, this article by Joe the IT Guy explains how to get the most from your continual improvement methods.
Adopting ITIL 4 Using PRINCE2
While PRINCE2 and ITIL are commonly seen as separate bodies of IT management best practice, this article offers a connection between the two – explaining how your organization can use the PRINCE2 methodology to help with its adoption of ITIL 4.
ITIL 4 Adoption Levels – the Surprising Survey Results
One year on from the launch of ITIL 4, we ran an ITSM.tools survey to assess the level of its adoption across exam and qualification uptake, organizational use, and peoples’ expectations of benefits of the new body of ITSM guidance. The results will likely surprise you.
Want to Adopt COBIT? Here Are 6 Tips to Help
From understanding what governance means to you and your peers, to focusing on COBIT 5’s six enablers, to simply fully appreciating what COBIT is, this article takes a look at how you can get started successfully with COBIT in your organization.
What’s a Remote Help Desk and How Do You Set One Up?
The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the need for remote support and the operation of a remote IT help desk. This article explains how the introduction of a remote IT help desk can be achieved – transforming IT support personnel who are acting independently into a cohesive – and more efficient and effective – IT support capability.
5 Key Considerations When Designing a Service Request Catalog
This article provides an overview of why a Service Request Catalog Framework is an important addition to an enterprise’s overall service strategy – and offers up five tips for you to get started in creating one.
An End-User’s View of IT Support When Working from Home
This article takes a look at some of the technology-based aspects of working from home from the end-user perspective. With the basis of the article formed around the home-working experiences of Claire, a project manager, who like many suddenly became a “forced” homeworker.
Using ITIL 4 Risk Management
The global COVID-19 crisis has focused organizations on many things, including continuity planning and disaster recovery. However, it’s also highlighted the need for better risk management. This article from AXELOS looks at how various ITIL 4 practices will help your organization to better assess and manage risks.
Are ITSM Tools Still ITSM Tools?
This article looks at the current state of ITSM tools and their capabilities/use cases. Proposing new names for ITSM tools along the way. Before finally making a judgment call on the new name for ITSM tools. What do you think? Does your organization still want an ITSM tool or would a different name be better?
Bytes for Heroes – How IT Professionals Can Help Healthcare Pros
This article looks at a UK-based initiative called Bytes for Heroes – providing thousands of meals to staff in NHS hospitals in cities across the UK – and how IT professionals can help with either funds, time, expertise, recruitment, networking, or anything else!