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By Manisha Champaneri BSc MSc ISO/IEC 20000 & ITSM Consultant Marval Group - UK   Within 4 months of graduating with BSc Honours in Business Information Systems, I entered the IT Service Management Industry where I got an opportunity to work closely with the well known…
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This article is from Qualifications - Qualifications Overview and has been viewed 26108 times.
Tags: Experience,MSc in Service Management,IT Service Management,ITIL foundation,ITSM managers course
ITIL Configuration Management - Configuration
Some believe that the fundamental discipline that underpins almost all the ITIL disciplines is Configuration Management and the Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB). The CMDB can comprise of a multitude of different types of Configuration Items (CIs), each containing various attributes. When deciding what level of attribute to record it is…
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This article is from Service Transition - Service Asset & Configuration Management and has been viewed 57282 times.
Tags: ITIL Configuration Management,Configuration Item Attributes,ITIL disciplines,Configuration Management,Configuration Management DataBase,CMDB,Configuration Items
Credit crunch hits public sector IT hiring
by Deirdre McArdle Public sector IT departments are feeling the squeeze when it comes to hiring skilled staff, with 90.5 percent saying they are facing headcount restrictions.   That's according to a survey conducted by recruitment firm IT Force, which shows that IT…
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This article is from ITIL News - Surveys and has been viewed 11199 times.
Tags: Credit crunch,public sector,IT hiring,IT departments,IT Force
More often than not an ITIL implementation can comprise of more than one discipline being implemented in parallel. On occasions they may be run as separate projects, ideally they should be run together under a ‘Program’. An example of such an implementation would be the introduction of ITIL…
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This article is from Case Studies - Case Studies 1 and has been viewed 14652 times.
Tags: ITIL implementation Guidance,ITIL Configuration, Change and Release Management,Project Managerm,Program Manager,Program Risks,Issues log,IT Director
Selecting an ITIL Service Management Toolset
The introduction of ITIL into any organization more often than not requires the support of a toolset to assist with the adoption of the various processes, together with facilitating the interfaces between the processes.   When selecting the toolset for your organization it is important to remember that…
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This article is from Management Tools - Advice and Guidance and has been viewed 24700 times.
Tags: ITIL Service Management Toolset,interpretation of ITIL,Service Desk Operator
IT Service Management Toolset Checklist
The following points have been extracted from an article entitled 'Selecting an ITIL Service Management Toolset'.   1.      Select a toolset that fits your organization not the other way round.  Processes come first not the tool.  Be clear on what you want the toolset to do…
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This article is from Management Tools - Advice and Guidance and has been viewed 17777 times.
Tags: IT Service Management,Toolset checklist,Management Information,multi-nationsl,ITIL process owners,user groups
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