Spring Cleaning: How to Tidy Up Your Service Offerings to Achieve Success

Borrowing from Lean principles, you can give your ITSM processes and technologies a routine dusting and set your service desk up for success.
Date Published July 16, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Gamify ITSM: Level-Up Your Service Management

Learn how to make IT fun again with gamification.
Date Published July 10, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

ITIL 4, Part 2: The Guiding Principles

The seven guiding principles of ITIL 4 take the focus off process and place it squarely on value.
Date Published July 9, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

DevOps and ITIL: Mortal Enemies or BFFs?

Are you suffering with an ITIL adoption that has fallen short? DevOps thinking can help, but that doesn’t mean that you must scrap what you’re doing with ITIL.
Date Published July 2, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

5 Tactics to Make Your Strategy More Effective

David Cannon takes a practical look at changes organizations need to make to create strategies that are relevant and achievable.
Date Published June 19, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

No News Is Good News: Common Phrases that Will Destroy Your Service Quality

Beware of comments and assumptions that can lead to service delivery that is simply adequate rather than exceptional.
Date Published June 11, 2019 - Last Updated December 17, 2019

Foresight Is 2020: Trends in Technical Support and Service Management

 

The 2010s were a decade of rapid-fire evolution in IT, technical support, and service management: from mobile devices to remote support, knowledge management to enterprise service management and ITIL4, countless technologies, processes, frameworks, and methodologies emerged to...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

Move Forward by Shifting Left: Enabling Self-Service and First-Level Resolution in 2021

 

We could all use a little more time in our schedule, but something new pops up every time we catch our breath. We cannot always anticipate the unexpected, but we can take steps to handle the work we know about more efficiently. For example, password reset requests persistently...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

Employ Interactive Virtual Training to Address Skill Gaps and Engage Teams

 

Keeping remote teams engaged was a challenge before the pandemic. Here we are, one year later – with limited to no in-person team interaction – and finding ways to support impactful team interactions and understand skill and knowledge gaps can be challenging and...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021

AI Means Business: A Panel Discussion on Modernizing Knowledge Management

 

While it’s still early days for artificial intelligence (AI), it’s clear that AI means business. In a June 2020 study conducted by Omdia, researchers found that more than 50% of respondents had deployed or were planning to deploy AI in five of seven business...

Date Published June 3, 2019 - Last Updated September 22, 2021