Articles tagged with Service Desk

Pushing the Boundaries of Major Incident Response

Pushing the Boundaries of Major Incident Response with Agentic AI

Instead of relying solely on traditional major incident management workflows, IT teams need to diversify and modernize their approach by infusing intelligence into their incident response flows. This article explains how IT incidents and major incidents are detected, analyzed, and resolved better with AI.

Anti-Powernoia Guide

The Anti-Powernoia Practical Implementation Guide

A candid, experience-based guide to ITSM implementation failures caused by power and fear. Learn how Powernoia distorts ITIL practices, metrics, and tools – and what to measure instead to preserve dignity, trust, and real service excellence.

Technicians: Why IT Service Desks Are the New Cybersecurity Target

Technicians Hold the Access: Why IT Service Desks Are the New Cybersecurity Target

Technicians often hold critical privileges, including credential resets, access approvals, and configuration changes, and they frequently work under tight time constraints. While these technician roles are high-trust and high-privileged, they are often overlooked in security assessments. For attackers, compromising a technician is the best way to bypass traditional corporate security defences in a single attempt.

itSMF UK 2025

itSMF UK 2025: People Over Process, Finally

Want to know what happened at this year’s itSMF UK conference and what some of the key ITSM nuggets and takeaways were? This personal reflection by Sophie Danby, on the itSMF UK 2025 conference, shares the standout sessions (attended), the themes that shaped the event, and what could improved.

AI in IT in 2026

AI in IT in 2026: Where is ITSM Heading?

Are you thinking about AI in IT in 2026? We’re rerunning our AI in IT survey with Atomicwork, collecting responses now to publish a fresh 2026 AI in IT report in time for the start of 2026. Please help everyone by adding your experiences and opinions.

The 2025 State of ITSM Report

The 2025 State of ITSM Report: How GenAI Is Cutting Resolution Time by 54%

This article presents some key findings from the SolarWinds 2025 State of ITSM Report. With data from more than 2,000 ITSM systems and over 60,000 anonymized incident records, this year’s report takes a close look at how service teams are adapting to new tools, especially generative AI (GenAI), and what measurable results they’re seeing.

ITSM Tool EOL: What to Do

ITSM Tool EOL: What to Do

When your ITSM tool reaches EOL, your organization is faced with both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge lies in ensuring continuity of IT services, processes, and knowledge without disruption. The opportunity arises from rethinking ITSM to better align with modern business needs, AI, and experience management.

ITOM and ITSM Synergy

ITOM and ITSM Synergy | How Integration Optimizes IT Services

Given the complexity of today’s corporate IT infrastructures, your IT staff may face challenges in managing both system and network performance while ensuring the delivered end-user experience meets the agreed-upon standard and services are maintained without disruption. ITOM and ITSM integration will help.

Why ITSM is Breaking People

Why ITSM is Breaking People (And What We Can Do)

We talk endlessly about processes, tools, and technology in ITSM. But here’s what we don’t talk about enough: the mental health of the people actually doing the work. The conversation is happening – there are posts about well-being, mental health awareness weeks, and workplace stress. But what about when it comes to the specific pressures of ITSM roles? Or the unique challenges teams face? This is where the conversation gets a bit thin. In this article, Sophie Danby explains what and how things need to change.

The State of AI in ITSM

The State of AI in ITSM (Mid-2025)

In Q2 2025, HCLSoftware and ITSM.tools ran an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused survey; this article presents some of the results from a report called The State of AI in ITSM 2025. The full report can be downloaded using the links in the article.