Share Is your organization exhibiting “AI fever”? “Symptoms” include people asking questions like: “How can our organization take advantage of AI-enabled capabilities?” “Where can we leverage AI to automate our workflows?” “How can we use AI to improve efficiency and reduce costs?” “What happens if our competitors beat us to the market with an AI-based … Continue reading Suffering from AI fever? Here’s why the big picture still matters→ The post Suffering from AI f...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share When it comes to who is the “customer”, many ITSM implementations are simply confused. And this confusion is why ITSM is failing your customers. Some IT organizations think the “customer” is someone that contacts a service desk. Others think the “customer” is someone who defines the requirements for a service. But that definition quickly … Continue reading ITSM is failing your customers – here’s why→ The post ITSM is failing your customers – here’s why first appe...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share AI is about to break ITSM from its IT operations cage. Many ITSM implementations are less about service management, and more about IT operations, or IT process management, or IT measures and reports. Here are some examples: To many organizations, ITSM is about a weekly meeting to discuss changes to the computing infrastructure, attended … Continue reading Will AI break ITSM out of its IT operations cage?→ The post Will AI break ITSM out of its IT operations cage? first appeared on I...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share Is your ITSM implementation like a house of cards, prone to fail with the slightest disturbance? Here’s some examples: A request for change that isn’t appropriately vetted yet is implemented within the live environment. Subsequently, that implemented change results in an extended outage of a critical business system. Service interruptions are characterized by frantic … Continue reading Why your ITSM house of cards is a bad deal for your business→ The post Why your ITSM house o...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share In my blog, “Four ways that organizations have dehumanized IT – and how to fix it”, I suggested that organizations should “ditch those satisfaction surveys”. Instead of satisfaction surveys, I recommended that organizations should conduct face-to-face focus group meetings. Focus group meetings drive a human-to-human discussion which typically uncovers insights into improvement opportunities. When … Continue reading Are your improvement efforts starving for continuous fee...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share “In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” Sadly, this 1991 Warren Buffet quote applies to many ITSM implementations. Why? Because the focus of those ITSM implementations is on what has happened, instead of what is happening. Think about it. Our respective businesses are focused on the view through … Continue reading Is your ITSM approach looking through the windshield…or at the rear-view mirror?→ The post Is your ITSM approach looking...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share Organizations have dehumanized IT. It’s not a question of “has it happened at our organization?” It is the recognition that it has happened. Despite the investments organizations have made in technologies and process designs intended to solve business problems, the critical component of the solution has been overlooked. That component? The humans that are … Continue reading Four ways that organizations have dehumanized IT – and how to fix it→ The post Four ways that organiza...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share There is no question that AI-enabled technologies have the potential for significant positive impact for organizations overall, and for ITSM specifically. This recent TechTarget article highlights a number of positive business impacts resulting from the adoption of AI-enabled technologies, such as new capabilities and business model expansion, better quality, more innovation, and personalized customer … Continue reading Five critical steps for making a good AI/ITSM decision→ The p...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share A few years ago, I was invited to conduct an ITSM assessment for an organization. While the request itself wasn’t unusual, it was unusual in that I had conducted an ITSM assessment for that same organization a few years prior. The IT leadership of the organization had not changed over that time, apart from … Continue reading Nothing will change. Unless you change.→ The post Nothing will change. Unless you change. first appeared on Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedd...| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Share There’s no question that introducing AI capabilities can have a dramatic impact on IT Service Management (ITSM). Done well, AI adoption will free up ITSM professionals to do the work for which humans are uniquely qualified, like critical thinking, contextual understanding, and creative problem-solving. Furthermore, AI will enable organizations to realize many of the … Continue reading Three AI truths with IT Service Management→ The post Three AI truths with IT Service Management f...| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
To realize the benefits of adding AI to ITSM requires more than just implementing technology. Here are three keys for success with AI-enabled service managment.| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
It may be hard to believe, but the term “experience economy” is nothing new. The term was first mentioned in this 1998 Harvard Business Review article. In the article, the authors posited that an experience occurs when a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as props, to engage individual customers in a| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Could the use of GenAI as part of an organization’s KM practices be the low-hanging fruit that delivers the transformational return that organizations need?| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Every day, IT leaders address questions to help keep their team moving forward, which in turn keeps the organization moving forward. Questions like: Where should the IT team spend their time? How should IT allocate resources? How can IT justify larger budgets and more investments? In the past, IT leaders have taken a straightforward approach| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
There’s no question that introducing AI capabilities can have a dramatic impact on ITSM. But organizations must first consider these three AI truths with IT Service Management.| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Enterprise service management (ESM) is an organizational capability for holistically delivering business value and outcomes. But ESM is nothing new. Why is now the right time for ESM?| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
As AI adoption gains momentum, the more human we need to be. Read this article for tips for humanizing AI.| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
The purpose of measurement and reporting is to enable fact-based decision making. But if no one is making any kind of decisions from your reports, then you’re not capturing and providing the right measures to the right people in your reports. Perhaps you should apply outcome-based thinking and start with reporting first, then measurement!| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
The typical workday looks much different today than it did just a few months ago. Instead of driving to work and walking into the building, employees are going online and signing in to their messaging or collaboration tools. Instead of physically taking a document to a client for a signature, they’re being sent digitally for| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
A few years ago, I thought that we had finally moved beyond the conversation of “business-IT alignment”. I was wrong.| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Enterprise Service Management (ESM) has been gaining traction over the last few years — and for good reason. With technology driving businesses forward these days, organizations must be able to holistically drive value to the bottom line of the business. And ESM can help them do just that. The question is where to start with ESM?| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
The CIO is often wearing many hats. They have to be tech whizzes and also strategic visionaries. And in my opinion, they now have to be the Continual Improvement Officer for their teams, their organizations, and in their careers. Continual improvement is about improving the quality of products and services by learning from past successes| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
