The change advisory board (CAB) can be one of the most important and useful meetings a service-oriented IT organization holds. It sets out a view of what’s happening to key services over the next week (or longer depending on its frequency and timeframe), confirms the impact to the business, reviews previous change activity, and looks at continual service improvement (CSI).
It's been a crazy couple of years, and things are still changing rapidly all around us. But you don't need me to tell you that; you're probably living it in your organization already. In the IT sector, we've gone through a global chip shortage, the postponement of major tech events, the delay of product launches, and perhaps most importantly, almost all companies shifted almost completely to remote work.
Books! Who doesn’t love books? Whether you’re one for the latest thriller to top the charts, or you go-Instagram-crazy for the latest self-help book, the majority of us love to read. In fact it was reported that the global book market was expected to grow from $87.92 billion in 2020 to $92.68 billion in 2021, with that figure reaching $124.2 billion by 2025.
It’s that time of year again when we get to make our New Year resolutions – with these things that hopefully get to last longer than the month of January. We might make a list of our New Year resolutions in our personal lives, but what about in our professional lives? Especially since any workplace-related resolutions might make our work lives easier or more rewarding (and ideally both). So what resolutions could you consider for 2022?
Tl;dr: Log4j is a mess, if you’re chasing down the applications, services and servers that use Java; consider the suggestions below to make zero day patching easier.
As I write this blog on IT service management (ITSM) predictions for 2022, I’m not entirely sure where 2021 disappeared to. 2021 went very much the way of 2020 for many IT organizations. However, it did see the replacement of 2020’s need to rapidly move employees to homeworking (and changing IT services and support capabilities to reflect new ways of working) with the need to return some employees to office-based working.
Enterprise service management - whether in its pure form or supporting digital transformation strategies - is still one of the hottest IT service management (ITSM) or service management trends.
As ITSM thought leader and consultant Doug Tedder has said, “Automate the obvious.” So what’s obvious? We shouldn’t have to think very long…
Service level agreements (SLAs), if used correctly, can be one of the most important tools in a service-oriented organization. Done well, they communicate what’s expected of all parties and can go a long way to improving the relationship between the business and its IT organization. Some would even argue that good IT service management (ITSM) is built on a bedrock of SLAs (as well as continual improvement). Here are four tips for building more effective SLAs.
If you read our earlier blog “The Common Issues with Operating Multiple IT Service Desk Tools,” then you’re hopefully better aware of all the issues caused by running multiple service desk tools and potentially now looking at how to justify an ITSM tool consolidation project. To help, this blog shares some of the key opportunities to create a compelling business case for change.
