6 Ways Collaboration Creates Customer-Centric Service
Most IT departments understand the benefits of working collaboratively. However, the idea of ripping up everything they know and considering other departments’ processes is a tough sell. To help, here are six techniques you can use to collaborate better with the other departments in your organization.
Is IT Part of the Business or Just a Supplier?
IT is a critical business function, with any significant outage a disaster – exactly why the CIO should have a seat on the Board. So why does the question of whether IT is part of the business or a supplier persist? Is IT the victim of an injustice or maybe just super-bad at PR? Let’s take a look.
The Current Status and Perspectives of the IT Service Desk
This article looks at the work taking place at the University of Oviedo, to understand the current situation and possibilities for improving the IT service desk function within IT service teams, and to identify opportunities for service management improvement.
Four Things That Ensure “Fit for Use”
In IT it’s important to remember that while a solution may be technically-sound and “fit for purpose,” value cannot be realized if those solutions are not also “fit for use.” Here Doug Tedder shares his advice on how to ensure that your solutions are both.
Modernize ITSM: Transform Digitally, Move from Being Costly to Valued
Many IT Service desk and IT support teams operate as a cost center, struggling to demonstrate their own value to the business. Let’s change this and modernize ITSM. To help, this article offers up 6 ways service and support teams can demonstrate value.
6 Tips for Modernizing IT Management and Delivery
In this article Daniel Card shares a list of common CIO challenges along with advice on how to combat them, providing 6 tips for modernizing IT management and delivery.
What’s “Being Relevant” in IT?
IT isn’t about adding in new technology or automating processes with the latest gadgets and gizmos or buzzword solutions. It’s about facilitating more business value. So how should IT organizations focus on and demonstrate the business value they deliver?
ITSM Futures: Understanding the 4 Levels of Technology Challenge
In this article, Stephen Mann discusses a variety of ITSM futures including ITSM tool implementations, near-term technology futures, and business disruption.
Future ITSM, Innovation, and Making ITSM Conference Magic Last
ITSM conferences offer up a variety of learning opportunities, particularly around the future of the industry and innovation. But do you put into practice what you learn? Here, Simone Jo Moore takes us on the magical conference journey.
What is Application Performance Management? APM Explained
What is APM? Why is it needed? What are its benefits? And how do you select the right solution? Find your answers in this article.