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Enterprise ITIL and ITSM

• ITSM in the cloud: Using ITSM best practices to optimize cloud usage

  Cloud-based services can't be beat for their ease of use, but companies often experience some 'unhappy surprises' when the bill comes due, says Andy Sealock. ITSM in the cloud can help. Continue Reading

• Texas college CIO pushes into enterprise service management

  A mature ITSM program has not only won Link Alander's IT team kudos for superb service delivery, but it is also driving automation of business processes in other departments. Continue Reading

• An ITSM program evolves from subpar to superb

  How do you go from 'lousy' systems and subpar services to an ITSM program that is driving a service approach across the enterprise? CIO Link Alander gives us the details. Continue Reading

• Improve business processes: What are the leading IT techniques?

  ITIL expert Gary Case lays out the leading methods for improving business processes. Step No. 1: value stream mapping. Continue Reading

• Top 10: What IT service delivery challenges plague CIOs?

  ITIL expert Gary Case has consulted with a wide range of companies over a long career in ITSM. Read his list of the 10 IT service delivery challenges that continue to bedevil CIOs. Continue Reading

• What steps can CIOs take to optimize their ITSM software?

  James Stanger of CompTIA dives into the reasons for ITSM software proliferation in the enterprise, why that's a problem and how sticking to a unified ITSM framework can help.Continue Reading

• Building an IT configuration management system: Hard but crucial

  An effective configuration management system that documents critical IT systems and services is a crucial prerequisite to successful incident response processes.Continue Reading

• Mistakes CIOs make on IT outsourcing deals -- and how to fix them

  CIOs don't sign on to large IT outsourcing deals expecting them to go bad, so what accounts for the high failure rates? Andy Sealock offers a game plan for de-risking your deal.Continue Reading

• Future-proof your IT outsourcing contract: A CIO checklist

  Despite reams of advice on how to write a good IT outsourcing contract, ITO expert Andy Sealock 'still sees terrible deals all over the place.' Here's how to do it right.Continue Reading

• Shadow technology: Four ways to reduce its use, minimize its impact

  IT transformation expert Derek Lonsdale says there are four main things centralized IT must do to reduce the use of and minimize the impact of shadow IT.Continue Reading

• Fixing broken IT service management processes

  Find out why it's so important for centralized IT departments to fix IT service management problems as part of their efforts to minimize and mitigate shadow IT.Continue Reading

• Embedded IT vs. central IT: Finding common ground

  ITSM expert George Spalding says that the key to solving problems between embedded IT and central IT is a common language based on services and not technology components.Continue Reading

• Three tips for a better IT service model

  With IT budgets moving out of the IT department, these three best practices will help put your IT organization in a better position to compete with outside IT services companies.Continue Reading

• Information technology skills gap raise concerns for some

  In this #CIOChat recap, participants discuss why information technology skills gaps are a concern and how to close those holes.Continue Reading

• ITSM principles boost service levels and free up IT resources

  Far from bogging down your IT organization, ITSM principles free up IT resource capacity. Expert contributor Neil Nickolaisen explains.Continue Reading