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Incident Management Prioritization
Understanding the Behavior Priority Drives When it comes to service management, the 2 most critical processes to focus on are incident management and change management. One helps you implement new services into the environment, while the other ensures those services are properly supported. In this article, we are going to focus on incident management and, […]
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Scrap your ITSM Processes
We usually refer to things like Incident Management and Change Management as “processes”. But we may be selling them short by doing that. Perhaps we should think of them (and treat them) as Services. This isn’t semantics – it’s mindset. What really is the difference between a “process” and a “service”? When we think of […]
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How much ITSM process is too much?
When it comes to ITSM processes, just how much process is too much? To many of us in the IT industry, process is a “dirty word”, a necessary evil. The word conjures up images of mindless IT bureaucrats more focused on forms than on getting things done. Process is definitely not applicable to today’s world […]
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The Importance of an ITSM Program Office
What is an ITSM Program Office? I’m sure you’ve heard many names for what we call the Program Office, e.g., ITSM Competency Center, ITSM Center of Excellence, Process Owners’ Council, Service Management Office, etc. Each of these names means something different, depending on your perspective. Regardless of what name you give it, it is important […]
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ITSM Software is not a Silver Bullet
Let me first say, I think all of us, as IT managers, believe IT Service Management is a great idea. It’s possible to define and implement an effective ITSM solution that will meet your current needs and set you up to continue to meet the business needs on into the future. However, what doesn’t exist […]
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ITIL Dinner Conversation: “Please Pass the Whine”
You can’t force ITIL® and ITSM, you have to get buy-in for it to really work I was at a dinner party a few weeks ago where someone asked me if my company “did ITIL®”. I said we helped companies with IT service management (ITSM) and that ITIL® was one of the many methods we used. My […]