• What Roles are Required for an Effective Service Catalog?
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    If you think the answer to this simple question is just the service catalog manager, then think again! True, there should be a service catalog manager, or managers depending on the size, scale,...
  • Meet your iceberg. Now in 3D
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    A service is usually a combination of provider’s behaviour and some pieces of specific resources. From the customer’s perspective a service may seem equal to the resources or to the provider’s...
  • IT Service Management (ITSM) and Service Desk Implementation Best Practices
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    IT Service Management & Service Desk implementation is a promising potential which draws an framework of service delivery, although as way of capturing comparative advantages in the face of the...
  • CMDB – Just do it
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    Perhaps the most debated ITIL topic, right after the merits of V3, is the CMDB. Ask 10 people, and depending on temperament, experience and general wind-chill factor, you’ll get 10 different opinions...
  • Introduction to COBIT 5
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    Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (CobiT) is a set of best practices for Information Technology management developed by Information Systems Audit & Control Association (...
  • COBIT 5 Miscellany
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    In order to present a 1 day COBIT 5 Update seminar on Friday 13th April, just 3 days after the launch of COBIT 5, I had to make a detailed study of the newly released materials and couple it with my...
  • ITIL Master is here but with strong competition
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    The ITIL Master qualification is at last available (April 27 2012).  Those holding the ITIL Expert certificate now have an opportunity to prove their expertise in implementing ITSM best...
  • Just how much of a saving is the reduction of heads from an IT support team?
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    In a bid to meet the demands of an FD who needs to see cost savings across the organisation, often it’s a portion of an IT team that have to go. On the face of it, it’s an easy choice. Those within...
  • geoffharmer's picture
    Reading, United Kingdom
    Geoff Harmer, PhD is an independent consultant specialising in IT governance and best practices for IT service management based on COBIT, ITIL, ISO...
  • sandeepseeram's picture
    Phoenix, Mauritius
    Sandeep Seeram is a business focused IT Consultant & Project Manager with broad experience of delivering business change and IT services....
  • RJouravlev's picture
    Moscow, Russian Federation
    Roman Jouravlev is experienced ITSM trainer and consultant. He has been working in ITSM area since 2002, most of these years in training and...