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IT Service Management in Japan: Where Best Practice Meets a Different World

ITIL expertise alone won't save you in Japan. When escalation models assume loudness and CAB structu...

Oct 28 2026

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ITSM and AIOps: Partners, Not Rivals

When a machine detects an incident before your monitoring tool fires, correlates three events, and r...

Oct 14 2026

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Proving It Worked

Closing a corrective action proves that somebody did something. Proving that the cause has stopped p...

Series: The Improvement Engine, #6

Oct 06 2026

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When Your Customer Is Also Your Colleague: The Hidden Complexity of Managing Global Internal Services

Internal customers can't switch providers. They can't vote with their feet. That should make you mor...

Sep 30 2026

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Governing the Corrective Action Backlog

A backlog nobody ages gets tidied by an audit date rather than by a decision. Governing corrective a...

Series: The Improvement Engine, #5

Sep 29 2026

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Anatomy of a Corrective Action

Most improvement registers are full of entries that could never be closed, because they were never w...

Series: The Improvement Engine, #4

Sep 22 2026

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Why Enterprise Management Is the Glue Holding Complex Service Landscapes Together

When 47 SaaS platforms, three cloud providers, and two managed service partners collide, complexity ...

Sep 16 2026

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Choosing What to Improve

A register with ninety open entries and no ranking is functionally the same as no register at all. C...

Series: The Improvement Engine, #3

Sep 15 2026

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Measurement That Earns Its Keep

Most service management reporting has no shortage of numbers. What it lacks is a number anybody deci...

Series: The Improvement Engine, #2

Sep 08 2026

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