One of the potential pitfalls for an ITSM software vendor, in having such a significant public framework – in the shape of ITIL – to construct its solution upon, is in adhering too closely to those guidelines. It could also be described as a “lazy” approach to...
The past three decades has seen four major incarnations of the ITIL framework, from its origins in the late 80s, to V4 released in 2019. Each has built on the previous framework, sometimes in very much an evolutionary mode, but with ITL V4, that evolutionary stance...
When ITIL first emerged, it was very much a framework – a guiding hand – for building a service desk solution around. Yet even in its V1 iteration from the 1980s – defining the basic processes of service support and delivery – it hit upon a number of basic...
Some call it Enterprise Service Management, you could call it ‘adaptability’. Either way, Enterprise Service Management – ESM – vs ITSM is ever-growing in practice. ESM, applying the principles of ‘Service Management’ commonly found and optimised within...
For many organisations, how to make self-service work has been on the agenda for years. And that’s hardly surprising. The benefits are supposed to be huge, ranging from cost savings to higher user satisfaction. But if you’ve ever tried to implement ITSM self-service,...
After all those years of talk about crisis management, risk mitigation and disaster recovery, along came Covid-19 and the world was shocked, seemingly overnight, into making its plans a reality. For IT services teams, the 2020 pandemic meant swift action to firstly...
Adapting to COVID with ITSM tools. As the COVID-19 crisis runs its course, IT service departments and IT Service Management software have taken the strain of managing the required change in working practices. Enabling the relocation of a working population from an...
Is your SaaS Service Desk software hosted in the UK? Do you know exactly where your ITSM data is, at all times? Does this matter to you, your staff or your customers? Can your supplier transparently tell you where your data is stored and processed – in the UK or...
The world has never been as obviously reliant on technology as it is now, during a pandemic which dictates that we are remote from others, while maintaining high levels of communication. IT Service Management, so often seen as the backroom fixer has leapt to meet the...
