Cloud Pro: Help from up high – running a service desk in the clouds

Article from Cloud Pro More and more companies are turning to service desks in the cloud – what are the issues to consider? If you want to get a view on how much businesses value their ITSM people, look at … Continue reading

Can you really implement IT Service Management tools in days?

There is a trend towards Cloud and SaaS (software as a service) offerings for Service Management tools, particularly with tools such as Service-now becoming very popular as well as SaaS versions of various other tools.  One of the key advantages … Continue reading

Why Only Outsource Things That Are Working Well?

Blog by Matthew Burrows on APMdigest, Published December 02, 2011 Click here for original blog post Traditional wisdom seems to be that we should only outsource things that are stable and working well, but what about the stuff that we … Continue reading

Is IT Part of the Business, Or Just a Supplier?

Matthew Burrows Soapbox video from ITSM TV – similar content also available in the blog post. I hear lots of debate about whether IT should be in a customer/supplier relationship (often described as being a Service Provider) or seen as … Continue reading

Service Catalog webinar on Brighttalk

PDF version also available by clicking here A BrightTALK Channel Webinar Survey results:

priSM interview for ITSM TV

Matthew Burrows interviewed on ITSM TV about priSM® (Professional Recognition in IT Service Management), a credentialing scheme from itSMF. Matthew Burrows – BSM Impact from itsmTV on Vimeo. ITSM TV Special Feature on Back2ITSM – giving back to the industry … Continue reading

ITIL 2011: it’s how you use it that counts

Computer Weekly article from Matthew Burrows, 7th October 2011 ITIL, the UK government-owned guidance on IT service management (ITSM) best practice, has been widely adopted across the IT industry since it first appeared more than 20 years ago. In July this … Continue reading

A Better Definition for BSM?

http://www.bsmdigest.com/a-better-definition-for-bsm A Better Definition for BSM? September 25, 2011 by Matthew Burrows In a previous blog I commented that I didn’t like the Wikipedia entry for Business Service Management (BSM), and  having checked with people involved in the original creation … Continue reading

ITIL 2011 interview for itsm TV

http://www.itsmtv.co.uk/videos/view/matthew-burrows-itil-2011-interview Matthew Burrows ITIL 2011 Interview from itsmTV on Vimeo.

ITIL 2011 facts in 1-minute

1-minute overview of ITIL 2011 on YouTube No opinions, just all the facts you can fit in to 1-minute.