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By Candy Candappa, IT and programme management executive   I’ve spent much of the last 20 years managing teams I couldn’t see and often who I never meet. Usually those teams are in different countries spanning time zones, corporations and cultures. To be successful you have to develop a management method that understands the individuals

By Zena Everett, SDI20 Keynote speaker, Author: ‘Crazy Busy’ & ‘Mind Flip: Take the Fear out of your Career’   I’ve been asked for productivity tips by Managers who aren’t used to working from home. They are keen to use this time to remain productive, take advantage of some gaps in their calendar and perhaps prove

That technology changes rapidly is one of the vast understatements of our time. Organisations and individuals involved in IT service management must continually reinvent themselves to keep up with the “digital transformation” across a myriad of business IT landscapes. Companies must stay on top of the rapid change in order to compete in the increasingly

If you’re a service desk manager looking for your next career move, which of your current skills and capabilities will be of most use? Many IT service desk managers have worked their way up through the service desk ranks thanks to their hard work and a combination of technical knowledge, interpersonal skills, and then management

SDI announces new Middle East community partnership with SMCE   Exclusive SDI MENA Global Partner, ACIS-IT, and SDI are honoured to welcome a new affiliate partner for service desk certification (SDC) and consultancy and improvement services in the Middle East region, focusing on Saudi Arabia. Dedicated to the promotion of a culture of Service Excellence in

By Stuart Perkins, a GBS Service Management Architect at Smith and Nephew At this year’s annual SDI conference – SDI20 – I’ll be presenting on Smith and Nephew’s Global Business Services function, focusing on our “Shift-Left” strategy. Executed well, Shift-Left has steered us towards the “promised land” – maximising customer satisfaction levels while reducing support