Each year we ask the ITSM community what topics they want help with. Here are the 2026 results, how priorities have changed over six years, and what it all means. Spoiler: GenAI has fallen off a cliff and nobody wants to talk about people anymore.
If you’re wondering about AI-assisted service desks, this article and the videos it links to are for you. Discover how AI-assisted service desks transform ITSM, especially for lean teams – improving speed, experience, and scalability across the business.
While the concept of enterprise service management (ESM) has been around for well over a decade, the terminology isn’t necessarily something that people are aware of. So, in this article, Sophie Danby attempts to explain everything you need to know about it.
What will you need help with next year? Take our quick 2026 ITSM Topics poll to help shape the articles, guides, and practical content ITSM.tools posts. This aggregated insight also gives us an indication of the hottest trends in ITSM right now.
Diving into analyst reports is an efficient way for organizations to learn what top vendors are offering, what users are experiencing, and what trends are emerging from an unbiased source. This article looks at the opportunity of analyst reports including The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management Platforms, Q4 2025 report.
The ability to extend the use of the corporate ITSM tool to other business functions to improve business-function workflows, service delivery and support capabilities, and employee experiences is highly beneficial in terms of better consistency, people efficiency, and digital transformation across the business functions. But is your corporate ITSM tool really equipped to support ESM? Is it an ESM-ready ITSM tool?
AI transformation in IT starts with a bigger vision. A vision that sees ITSM move from IT to “enterprise” as ESM. IT and AI are at the forefront of a digital revolution. Let’s aim for this larger view, enabled by everything we’ve learned and continue to learn as service management professionals.
GenAI is the latest ITSM and ESM trend to drive changes in service management. This article offers GenAI ITSM examples to get you thinking.
There’s a long list of challenges when using generative AI. However, that list can be summed up in five words, “Get your house in order!” This article lists the top five ways you can achieve this.
In a recent webinar with SymphonyAI, I discussed artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in enterprise service management (ESM) scenarios. This article shares some of the points we discussed on AI adoption in ESM, starting with how ESM has evolved in recent years.
If you’ve worked in ITSM roles long enough, you’ve probably been told, “ITSM is a journey, not a destination” at some point. But a journey is a series of destinations and for long journeys these break up the route and provide a sense of direction and accomplishment as they are reached.
But what does this have to do with ITSM? This article explains.
“The business benefits of enterprise service management should be articulated and sold” says Stephen Mann. Here these 14 ESM benefits are explained at a high level but in a way that transcends IT.
We asked our readers to choose their five most important ITSM topics for 2023 relative to creating new best practice content to help. This article shares the results, along with a comparison to the 2022 results.
We’ve been talking about enterprise service management since 2008, value since at least 2011, and employee experience since 2013. Yet we’re still listing them as ‘trends for 2023’. Something needs to change… this article explores.
Enterprise service management is about providing employees with consistently high-quality services and support. Here Stephen Mann explains more.