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 – 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Is Your IT Support Team at Breaking Point?
Are your IT service desk teams at breaking point? Over-stretched and ridiculously busy? Where people are working long hours and are probably stressed – with this affecting team morale, the level of human errors, and your CSAT scores. If so, Steve Morgan might have the answer for you in this article.
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.
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.
The Pros and Cons of IT Service Desk Benchmarks
Benchmarks can be powerful tools in understanding how well your IT service desk is performing and for the identification of improvement opportunities. With that in mind, this article aims to help you to better understand some of the cons, that sit alongside the pros, of using IT service desk benchmarks.
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.
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: 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.
6 Tips for Measuring Customer Satisfaction
This article serves as a quick guide to help you create reliable measures for assessing customer satisfaction, complete with 6 useful tips.