The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in many changes that seemed implausible only a few months ago. The extended period of remote work coupled with ongoing business and productivity demands has really challenged organizations. The best way forward is to a well thought out strategy for the meantime as well as the preparation to return to the workplace. “The workforce has shifted work locations and work times due to the current climate.

In administrating all technology and application requirements within an organization, IT operations management (ITOM) is pretty complex, and tends to send IT admins scrambling for authentic and actionable insights across the internet. We’re taking matters into our own hands and launching our very own podcast series to provide you valuable information on ITOM, which you can choose to listen to at your leisure or on the go!

As companies prepare for the workforce to return to work, a myriad of decisions must be made. Return to work policies must encompass a full understanding of the needs and questions of its employees. The other top need is a true assessment of safety as it relates to COVID-19. How does the new place differ from one that is familiar? From the perspective of the employee, there may be sentiments of fear, uncertainty, and reluctance.

I’ve been writing about continuous cloud optimization for a while now, and recently, I’ve spoken with several organizations to understand any challenges they’re currently facing in their automation journey. Their insights would help us understand how we can improve our technology to better support them. I discovered two fundamental themes behind their challenges.

Strategic changes and new deployments in all growing businesses are expected. So by design, businesses need to be adaptive to new changes. When such transformations are being undertaken, organizations need to continue preserving their infrastructures while complying with pre-defined timelines. To efficiently manage such deployments, organizations make use of ITIL concepts like change and release management.

You’ve been contemplating adopting a new ITSM solution for some time. The current one handles the bare minimum—it helps your team churn through a ticket queue—but you know there are other solutions capable of more. So what’s standing in your way? Implementing that new platform seems time-consuming and stressful. But it doesn’t have to be.

No company likes to admit that it loses money because of poor inventory management. Whether it’s because you’ve lost the equipment or you don’t know who has it in their hands, you’re wasting time trying to find it, and as they say, time is money… Have you thought about inventory management with a barcode scanner? It’s best to take care of your inventory, and barcode scanner(s) might be the solution.