What Steve Jobs Can Still Teach Us About How to Use ITIL
One of the issues with ITIL is not ITIL itself, but how others inappropriately elevate it to a religious level. Can Steve Jobs save us?
Alexa Virtual Assistant – Voice as an IT Service Desk Interface
What’s the point of virtual assistants like Alex for the IT service desk? And how can we make use of the technology to improve service desk efficiency? Let’s take a look.
The ITIL Service Portfolio Management Process Explained
If the goal of your organization is to provide the right IT/business services to your customers, whether internal or external, service portfolio management is a vital step towards meeting governance requirements and delivering value.
Use Design Thinking to Improve Your ITSM
Instead of IT being a business support function, IT is needed as an innovation engine within the company – this means that CIOs must find ways to promote and institutionalize innovation. Design thinking can be one of the ways to do that.
IT Service Management Made Smarter with Machine Learning
This articles looks at the number of different ways that machine learning and analytics can transform ITSM systems. Read more here.
It’s Time to Stop Inviting Cowboy Consultants to the ITSM Rodeo
Remember: just because someone knows some of the language, or because they’ve been on an ITIL course or read the books, doesn’t necessarily make them a good ITSM consultant.
What ITSM Pros Need to Know About Spectre and Meltdown
Two major 20-year-old security vulnerabilities in CPU architectures were announced in the form of Spectre and Meltdown. Find out what you should do if your affected here.
Another 10 Tips for Better ITSM Software Selection
10 tips for ITSM software selection focused around “configuration, customization, and integrations” and “vendor relationship and (lack of) communication” needs.
It’s All About the People
How do we focus on the people side of change in this brave new world of constant and complex change? Karen Ferris shares her views.
The 4 Foundational Pillars for Better IT Service Desk Performance
What’s the key to improved IT service desk performance? And what can we learn from an exemplar B2C success story to drive service and support success? Take a look.
18 ITSM Tips
While this IT service management (ITSM) tips article was written for 2018, much of it still holds true today. So, what are the 18 most important ITSM tips for 2018? If I really knew the answer to this, then I’d probably be drinking cocktails on a beach somewhere right now. And anyone who can offer […]
5 Reasons to Implement an IT Self-Service Portal (and Why It Might Fail Anyway)
As demands on the IT department are rising, customer service expectations increase, could an IT self-service portal be your saving grace?
What ITIL Can Learn from its Star Wars “Connection”
In this article we take a look at how the next update to ITIL can learn from the reinvention of the Stars Wars movie franchise.
What’s BSM? Did ITIL 2011 Get it Wrong with its Definition of BSM?
ITIL, offers a great – and handy – list of definitions of common (and some not-so-common) ITSM terms. But how accurate is its definition of BSM?
ITSM in 2018: So Much to Do, So Little Time
ITSM in 2018 – It’s that time of the year (again) when everyone and their dog (or cat, if you’re more of a cat person) writes their IT service management (ITSM) predictions for the new year ahead. I’m not knocking them (well I do a little later on), because they’re good things in that they […]