ITSM in 2023 and What We Should Learn from Our Past

ITSM in 2023

In this 2023-focused article, Stephen Mann asks whether the ITSM industry’s love of next-year predictions are as helpful as they could be. And whether, for 2023, we should be more realistic about what we will, or can, achieve.

The ITIL 4 Service Value Chain Explained

ITIL 4 Service Value Chain

Here Daniel Breston takes a closer look at the ITIL 4 Service Value Chain and asks you to observe and consider the impact of what it depicts against the way you deliver value with technology-based solutions at your organization today.

6 Steps for Getting Work Done in IT

Getting Work Done in IT

There are some constant truths or guiding principles that every IT leader must recognize in managing inbound work and getting ‘stuff’ done says Steve Morgan. Here he shares 6.

The Similarities and Differences between ITIL 4 and VeriSM

ITIL 4 and VeriSM Compared

This article explores how the two service management approaches of ITIL 4 and VeriSM are either different or similar by going over their core concepts side-by-side – looking at governance, operational models, principles, and overall concepts.

The 5 Hottest ITSM Trends and Topics for 2019

ITSM Trends for 2019

Find out what ITSM professionals would like information on, and help with, in 2019 based on our recent reader poll; and get an idea of where the ITSM industry is looking, and potentially heading, in the year ahead. The results are relatively different to those of 2018!

DevOps and ITIL: Why DevOps Won’t Replace ITIL in ITSM

DevOps and ITIL

DevOps is not a replacement for ITIL, in fact DevOps can complement and enhance the ITIL framework by making the processes simpler and more automated. This article looks at why DevOps won’t replace ITIL, and how it could, and should, improve – and add more agility to – some ITIL processes.

Customer Service is the Elephant in the Room of ITSM

Customer service

In Aale Roos’ opinion, not a single ITSM framework, standard, or concept is really customer-centric in the sense that customer service would be an important element in it – and so here he asks “where are we, and where should we be, with customer service in ITSM?”

Which ITSM Topics Will Interest You, and Your Peers, in 2019?

ITSM Topics for 2019

Which IT service management (ITSM) topics would you like to see our content focus on in 2019? Please take our quick poll and then read on to find out more about a year in the life of ITSM.tools’ content and readership, and to see how we shaped our content plan around last year’s votes.

ITSM Future Readiness – Please Take the 2019 Survey

ITSM Future Readiness

Building off of our 2017 analysis, this article introduces a new ITSM.tools survey that we hope will help IT service management pros to better understand where the future of ITSM is heading and what they should be thinking about (and then doing).

ITSM is Dead. Long live Artificially Intelligent Service Management

Artificially Intelligent Service Management

Here Ian Aitchison introduces his concept of “Artificially Intelligent Service Management,” described as ITSM, but with a rich and creamy layer of artificial intelligence on top – like icing on a cake. Sound hungry? We mean interested… click-through to read more.