Articles tagged with ITSM

ITSM in the New Normal

Five Things to Expect of ITSM in the New Normal

What will the “new normal” mean for ITSM? Will it be more or less relevant? Can the ITSM frameworks and methodologies help us adjust, or will it hinder us from achieving credibility with our customers? How will working remotely affect our relationships with our suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders? Here, John Custy explores.

Post-COVID-19 Future

Next Steps for our Post-COVID-19 Future

In this article, industry authority Barclay Rae shares some practical activities that organizations – including yours – can take to plan for ITSM’s post-COVID-19 future across three key areas of: governance, data and analytics, and social continuity.

Cloud Governance

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.

Remote Communication Issues

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.

Maturity Model

The Making of 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.

Choosing the Right ITSM Tool

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.

Continual Improvement

#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.

ITIL 4 Adoption

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.

ITSM Tools

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?

COVID-19 ITSM

How COVID-19 Will Change ITSM – a Crowdsourced Perspective

In difficult times, while there needs to be attention on the firefighting at hand, it’s also good to look to the future. So, in this article we asked 36 people from all walks of ITSM to share their thoughts and opinions on how COVID-19 is going to impact the future of ITSM.

ITSM Predictions

ITSM Predictions for a Post COVID-19 World

In IT/technology, we’ve seen the world change and be turned upside down in just 3-4 weeks. Now COVID-19 is making a “new normal” (and not just for ITSM), but what changes can we expect long-term for the ITSM industry? And what impact will this pandemic have on IT operations? Here Barclay Rae shares his views.

Changes to ITSM Best Practice

Post Pandemic: The Long-Term Changes to ITSM Best Practice

The business economic impact of COVID-19 is likely going to change almost every organization for at least the next 2-3 years. In this article, John Custy proposes eight ways that we can expect to see long-term changes to the world of ITSM after the pandemic.

ITSM Capabilities

Are Your People, Processes, and Technology Ready for the “New Normal”?

In a post COVID-19 world many are predicting that increased numbers of employees working remotely will be the new standard. Others are wondering whether we’ll see another COVID-19 style crisis in the near future. Both points offer up an important question: Are your ITSM capabilities – the people, processes, and technology – prepared for the “new norm”?

COVID-19 and ITSM

How Will COVID-19 Change the World of ITSM?

So much has changed already in the world of ITSM in light of COVID-19. What was important last week could be either vital or irrelevant today. Here, Patrick Bolger shares his views on how the pandemic will impact the industry long-term.