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OwlPoint’s CEO, Mark Blanke, and AXELOS’s Adam Griffith discussed new products related to ITIL 4. Details of the ITIL Maturity Model were reviewed along with the first public announcement of 2 new ITIL 4 Modules.

As a concept, XLA measures Employee Engagement along with other factors.

AXELOS just released the new ITIL Maturity Model assessment! If you want to know how this can help your organization, this webinar will answer your questions.

You can’t build a roadmap to meet your objectives if you don’t know where you are at the beginning.

The ITIL® Maturity Model is a tool used to objectively and comprehensively assess an organization’s service management capabilities and the maturity of the organization’s Service Value System (SVS).

ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library.  However, with ITIL now being a broad framework that can be applied to a broad range of service organizations beyond solely IT, “ITIL” is no longer an acronym and has become a term to describe the best practices framework.

So many companies make this mistake when it comes to delivering IT Services. Are you making this big mistake in Experience Management?

wlPoint proudly announces a partnership with XLACollab, the global thought leader in enterprise-level Art and Science of Experience. With this partnership, OwlPoint takes another critical step to assist its clients in leveraging their service management investments to ensure excellent employee experiences.

With the upcoming changes to the ITIL Maturity Model soon to be released by AXELOS, OwlPoint answers common questions about the new Capability and Maturity Model updated for ITIL 4.

Understanding the customer’s wants and needs is the proper starting place for such a decision. Even while the consumer world is focusing on the customer’s satisfaction and experience, this concept is only now starting to penetrate IT. Our consumers increasingly have a choice in the services they use, and the way they feel when they consume these services dictates their future spending. Welcome to the world of experience management.

To aid in our improvement goals and underscore one of the major components of the ITIL Service Value System, Continual Improvement, AXELOS has updated the ITIL Maturity Model. This will enable organizations to conduct evaluations and establish baselines to facilitate a continual improvement program.

IT consistently impacts the business. From finance to human resources, each department voraciously consumes digital services – often without even realizing it.

For years, IT has loved sending customers surveys to measure satisfaction with the service provided. Here us an example of an IT survey that failed to adequately measure the support experience of the end user – and the experience went from bad to worse.

IT organizations are often called upon to assist their companies transform themselves by applying new technologies and improving their business processes. However, these new business processes should be standardized and documented before new tools are implemented.

OwlPoint is pleased to announce that it has extended its consulting partnership with AXELOS. This is OwlPoint’s fourth year as an official AXELOS Consulting Partner (ACP). For over a decade, OwlPoint’s focus has been on helping companies improve their organizations by leveraging best practices in areas such as Project and Program Management and Service Management. […]

Greg Smith describes a list of common mistakes made he has seen people make when selecting and implementing ITSM tools and provides some advice on how to ensure success with your new platform.

A successful business works with their customer to co-create value. While this is more prevalent in the COVID-19 era, it’s something that service providers should have done before the pandemic and something they should strive to do long after we’re all vaccinated and things are back to “business as usual”.  From an IT perspective, IT services are […]

People often confuse the existence of items such as process documents, knowledge articles and tool functionality with the effective and efficient use of same. ITSM isn’t a shopping list and just because you put something in your cart and check it off the list does not mean IT and the Business is benefiting from it.

Are your customers sitting in 9C? When customers evaluate your service, do they remember the experience or the statistics? There is a better way to measure and it is called eXperience Management.

Change Managers regularly face challenges unique to their role. If you’re new to Change Enablement, below highlights a few challenges you should prepare for.

The key to a successful Change Enablement program is the Change Manager. What traits are needed for this unique role within ISTM?

In 2019, AXELOS launched ITIL® 4, an update to ITIL v3, to stay aligned with the changing needs of businesses. Following the success of ITIL 4, they have decided that ITIL v3 will be discontinued by the end of 2021. What does that mean for those who are still working on their ITIL v3 certifications? This […]

Early this spring, many asset managers were presented with scenarios they’d never imaged could or would happen. Many were told that in just a matter of weeks, they would need to mobilize a massive workforce to work remotely.

One of the aspects of ITIL 4 that has impressed me the most is the integration and reference to so many other best practices and frameworks. One such reference is to Site Reliability Engineering aka SRE. SRE was originally developed by Google in the mid 2000s as a way of operating and administering productions system with a software development mindset.