The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Asset and Configuration Management process, described in its Service Transition guide, requires IT organizations to establish and maintain a configuration management database (CMDB) to keep track of configuration items (CIs) and the relationships between them. An up-to-date and functioning CMDB is one of the most important indicators of ITIL implementation success.
You probably heard about the European Union’s updated Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2). This directive will translate into active law in October 2024. You should be ready for it, as there are high fines and sanctions for non-compliance. But you might be tempted to think that October 2024 is far away, right? Think twice. After all, how can you know if you have plenty of time to prepare if you don’t know how well you currently comply with the projected regulations?
In a previous blog post, I discussed the two main areas to audit before the European Union’s updated Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) becomes ratified law in October 2024. Specifically, these audits would: Identify your gaps with the NIS2 directive’s requirements now. Review your current supply chain security flaws. Now that we’ve discovered these security flaws, we must fix them — before time runs out in October 2024.
Accuracy in supply chain operations means so many things. There’s the obvious order accuracy in fulfillment, and all that comes with it — KPIs met, customer satisfaction ratings, etc. Every one of these is important. But there are several ways that improving accuracy affects the business, so we’re looking at how operations teams hit the target with help from voice-enabled applications.
Too often, we in IT get so busy performing the day-to-day work and fighting the many fires that come at us each day that we neglect to take a moment and focus on ways we can be strategic about how we do our jobs. When building or expanding IT Service Management offerings, it’s important to understand how taking time to focus on service strategy can greatly improve the efficiency of service delivery. First, let’s begin by defining a few terms.
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