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Beyond SLAs: Getting to the Core of Service Delivery With XLAs

As a consumer, you most likely can agree that the overall experience in the buying process is equally, if not more, important than the product or service itself. Forbes actually…

Service Level Management: Tying it Together With SLAs, SLOs, and XLAs

Quality service and providing value to service desk users is a sure way to boost employee engagement. In fact, if employees aren’t satisfied with their requests and providers aren’t finding…

How Digital Transformation Has Evolved Through COVID-19

There’s no debating the value of digital transformation when it comes to optimal business performance, but for many IT leaders, some digital initiatives are pushed to the backburner due to…

Is Your Service Desk Too Complicated to Use?

It’s an exchange that happens almost every day in every business office: Employee peeks over the divider and asks her coworker, “Hey, how do I connect this to Bluetooth?” Maybe…

A Successful ITSM Implementation Starts With 4 Checkboxes

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…

4 Ways to Improve Your Change Management Practices

Okay, good. You have a change management practice in place. You know how to define it, its benefits, how to get the process started, and how to measure its success.…

Change Templates: Your Roadmap for Necessary IT Changes

For some, change is something to look forward to. For others, it may be scary and anxiety-inducing. If the latter describes your organization, it may be time to rethink your…

Panel: The Future of IT Service Management

IT service management (ITSM) has evolved into a much broader discipline than just delivering IT services to the business. It’s grown beyond the IT department and become an integral part…

CMDB: Your Family Tree of Dependencies

Configuration items (CIs) in the configuration management database (CMDB) stores information regarding the relationships among its assets. IT configuration management is becoming increasingly critical in order to maintain service levels…

4 Reasons Why IT Risk Detection is Critical in the Service Desk

In the previous blog, I discussed how IT risks can infiltrate the service desk if proper incident, problem, and change management aren’t applied. But, IT risk detection in the service…