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Best of HDI - #5: Here are 7 Ways to Improve Your Company’s IT Service Management

Best of HDI in 2021 - #5: There is no one-size-fits-all approach to ITSM, but there are ways to consider how to build the best ITSM processes for your organization. Here are some suggestions to consider as you build out the processes that will provide your organization with long-term success.
Date Published December 21, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Best of HDI in 2021 - #6: Performance is Not Enough

Best of HDI in 2021 - #6: As part of our series profiling HDI’s Strategic Advisory Board, we ask five questions of Stephen Paskel, a senior manager and site leader at AllState. He shares that to succeed in this industry, it’s important to be a good communicator, to want to serve others, and to...
Date Published December 20, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Best of HDI in 2021 - #7: A Service Management Office is No Longer a Luxury

Best of HDI in 2021 - #7: As organizations move towards enterprise service management, a coordinating body is critical to ensure that there is a singular vision, direction, and solution for an organization’s IT. If not, even the most well-intentioned organizations can create a new form of shadow IT.
Date Published December 16, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Best of HDI in 2021 - #8: Agile and ITIL: Updates That Help Them Work Together

Best of HDI in 2021 - #8: On the surface, it would seem the two concepts are diametrically opposed. However, as both have evolved and been integrated into the workplace, the distance between the two has closed. Here’s an argument for how to make both work for you.
Date Published December 15, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Best of HDI in 2021 - #9: IT Must be an Integral Partner in Improving Employee Experience

Best of HDI in 2021 - #9: Too often, staff from other departments have a negative view of IT. To change that, IT departments need to understand the needs of the rest of the workforce, listen to continuous feedback from their colleagues, and ensure that tech changes improve daily work conditions.
Date Published December 14, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Best of HDI in 2021 - #10: The Five Whys and Hows of a Continuous Process Improvement Program

We’re counting down HDI’s most read articles of 2021. Here’s No. 10 - It’s one thing to launch a continuous process improvement program, but it’s another to sustain it. Here, an analyst looks at some on-the-ground processes to keep momentum up for improvement.
Date Published December 13, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

How to Help Your Team Trust You as a Manager

Managers must do more than be straight shooters and do hard work to gain their team’s trust. What’s also needed are small gestures of kindness that lets their teams know they care. Read more from a passage of “Trust Me - Restore Belief & Confidence in an Uncertain World.”
Date Published December 6, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

How to Get Started on Implementing Shift-Left Strategies

In part 2 of this series on continuous improvement through a shift-left focus, here is an overview of beginning steps for implementing new efficiency strategies. Also included is a suggestion for initial goals to measure success once those strategies are implemented.

Date Published December 6, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Strategically Implementing a Shift-Left Service Plan

A discussion of why owning end-to-end service delivery is critical to your career. In part 1 of 2 in this series, we discuss how to do a thoughtful analysis to determine the best path forward for implementing shift-left strategies within your IT department.
Date Published December 6, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023

Be Proactive to Prevent Staffing Holes

We all know that we have two weeks, at most, to fill a position, but too often we are stuck either hiring warm bodies or putting extra workload on our team. It’s better to prepare for the inevitable departures. Here’s how.
Date Published December 2, 2021 - Last Updated January 20, 2023