Tag: IT Service Management

  • Navigating the Road to Customer Satisfaction: Combining CEM and ITSM

    Navigating the Road to Customer Satisfaction: Combining CEM and ITSM

    Customer Experience Management is a strategic focus on managing all interactions with a customer across the entire experience with a product or service. Organizations need to engineer a customer experience that creates a vision of what they want to provide, distinguishes services from the competition, and creates loyal customer advocates that tell others how great […]

  • HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: Customer Service and ITSM

    HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: Customer Service and ITSM

    Customer satisfaction is pivotal to the success of service desks in every organization. How do you achieve exceptional customer service? Hear from some of the speakers and influencers at HDI 2016 Conference & Expo. I had the honor of speaking with Inc. Radio at the recent HDI conference concerning customer service and IT service management. […]

  • HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: Enterprise Service Management

    HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: Enterprise Service Management

    Service management isn’t just for IT anymore. Departments outside of IT are understanding the benefits and incorporating the process of service management, and IT is taking the lead. Hear from some of the speakers and influencers at HDI 2016 Conference & Expo. I had the honor of speaking with Inc. Radio at the recent HDI […]

  • HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: ITSM Growth

    HDI 2016 Conference & Expo: ITSM Growth

    Technology is ever-changing. How has IT service management grown from the basics of hardware and software to strategic leaders? Hear from some of the speakers and influencers at HDI 2016 Conference & Expo about ITSM Growth. I had the honor of speaking with Inc. Radio at the recent HDI conference concerning customer experience management and […]

  • All Things ITSM Interview – ITSM and the Customer Experience

    All Things ITSM Interview – ITSM and the Customer Experience

    At Fusion 2015 in New Orleans, All Thing ITSM interviewed me about ITSM and the Customer Experience. Questions posed: What experiences have you had in translating IT’s efforts into significance for the business? Do you see IT departments determining value in splendid isolation of the business or do they engage their business partners? What role does customer experience […]

  • How Do We Solve Problems in IT?

    How Do We Solve Problems in IT?

    Do you remember the television show Home Improvement? Tim “the toolman” Taylor had to have the most powerful tools and often super-sized his approach to solving household problems. I remember the episode when he supercharged the dishwasher. But his approach to solving problems and improving households represents something important for IT professionals facing problems in […]

  • Interview about IT and the Business

    Interview about IT and the Business

    In this interview, I discuss what IT and the Business need from each other to thrive. The relationship between the business and IT is maturing now. IT needs to have much more opportunity to help with decisions within the business. I think it is important for IT and the business to be successful that we […]

  • Interview about the Future for ITSM Professionals

    Interview about the Future for ITSM Professionals

    The most prominent shift we see now in the industry is the closing of the gap between IT and the business. IT must learn more about the business and understand how IT can best support strategic initiatives. However, to successfully close the gap, ITSM Professionals need to develop more in-depth business acumen and a stronger […]

  • Simplify IT Tech Conference Keynote, Sunnyvale, CA

    Simplify IT Tech Conference Keynote, Sunnyvale, CA

    After completing a consulting engagement with one of Bay Area clients, I was asked to speak at the company’s annual IT Tech Conference. The topic was both a review of the results – but also why those results were important to the corporate objective of simplifying IT. The topic: Simplify IT with IT Service Management. […]

  • Screencast: Continual Professional Development – In or Out?

    Screencast: Continual Professional Development – In or Out?

    I had the unique opportunity to do a screencast or podcast on Continual Professional Development. It was a pleasure to be a guest working with such great talent. Eddie Vidal and Doug Tedder, FSM are two of the best, and I enjoyed working with them. Interview questions included: I want to have a career in IT, […]