Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Deep in the heartland of America an experiment is under way. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a set of best practices for IT service management, has begun to take root in the ...

ITIL best practices for IT service management can transform the way your business and helpdesk operations function, and help you deliver a consistently great user experience (UX) to customers.

CIOs have a new mandate from CEOs: Accelerate innovation and growth as a business-driven thought leader rather than a caretaker of technology. This paradigm shift requires changes in how IT teams work ...

As public-sector organizations look to improve their IT processes and IT Service Management (ITSM) maturity, many are implementing ITIL best practices. ITIL stands for Information Technology ...

CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, is using IT service management (ITSM) to support operations outside the IT function. Reinoud Martens, service manager at CERN, has been taking the IT out ...

Want to know how companies such as DHL, General Motors and Nationwide Insurance achieve operational excellence, maintain high levels of IT efficiency and keep their systems compliant with myriad ...

The effective management of IT requires a finely balanced blend of theory and practice. Theory helps us understand how things work, see patterns and ask the right questions. And practice helps us ...

What is ITSM (IT service management)? Your email has been sent This ITSM guide covers how IT service management evolved from ITIL, along with an overview of the ITIL life cycle and the many IT service ...

It’s been nearly a year since Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came out. The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus ...