IT Best Practice Archive
BCM (business continuity management) describes the process of planning for disruptive incidents. Organisations do this by identifying potential threats and analysing their impact on day-to-day operations. Effective BCM ensures that organisations can provide an acceptable service in the event of a disaster, …
When considering a framework to boost your IT service management capabilities, you might think that you have to choose between ITIL® and ISO 20000. But this isn’t true. Despite organisations often saying that they want to be ‘ITIL-compliant’ or that …
If you work in IT, you’ll probably have come across ITIL®, the globally recognised framework that helps organisations manage their ITSM (IT service management) requirements. The framework is updated regularly to make sure it’s suitable for the ever-evolving IT industry, and in 2019, the …
A new version of ITIL® was released this year, providing more nuanced and practical guidance on ITSM (IT service management). Although ITIL 4 is markedly different from its predecessors, each iteration shares the same essential framework, concept and knowledge. Let’s take a look at how ITIL has evolved and what the latest version contains.
Now, more than ever, organisations need effective and efficient IT to survive. IT supports critical business processes that generate revenue, serve customers and allow business goals to be achieved.
There are plenty of reasons a career in information security might appeal: it’s rewarding, there’s huge demand for skilled professionals and it pays well. Plus, you don’t need to study for years and get a degree to enter the industry. All you need to get started is …
One of the ways to improve communication and alignment between an organisation and its IT service provider is to develop an effective service catalogue. A service catalogue in its basic form is a document that gives customers a list of all live services offered by IT. However, an …
The relationship between an organisation and the traditional IT service provider is sometimes fraught with conflict, born from a lack of mutual understanding and, as a consequence, poor delivery of IT services. This leads to blame and mistrust from both parties and can seriously affect the organisation’s outcomes.
In any organisation or group of individuals, there are learned and shared patterns of behaviour or shared values that give us the culture of that organisation or group. Good, or bad, customer service is catching and can become engrained in the organisation’s culture. Traditional IT can sometimes lose sight of what the business as a whole …
ITSM is a set of processes and functions that help organisations align their IT systems with organisational goals. This covers a huge range of activities, from applications and computer hardware, to associated technology like printers and networks.
