Category Archives: ITIL

Has ITIL Lost its Mojo?

By Dick Stark Last Thursday, I attended a panel discussion sponsored by the National Capital Area itSMF user group.  The topic: DOD IT Service Management Perspective. Kirk Holmes, itSMF founding member led the discussion with representatives from the US Navy, … Continue reading

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What Fed Execs Want From IT

By Dick Stark A few weeks ago MeriTalk, a Federal IT think tank, commissioned a study entitled, the Customer is Always Right, that focused not on what IT thinks, but what IT’s customers think of IT.  Not surprisingly, just 46 … Continue reading

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The End of Solution Selling

By Dick Stark It’s the end of traditional solution selling. Customers are increasingly circumventing reps; they’re using publicly available information to diagnose their own needs and turning to sophisticated procurement departments and third party purchasing consultants to help them extract … Continue reading

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ITIL in the Cloud

By Nikki Haase, Director Process Consulting and Training, RightStar I have been asked about the implications of the cloud for ITIL. How do we implement ITIL in the cloud? How do we use the ITIL framework to manage the cloud? … Continue reading

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R.I.P.: IT Value

“CIO’s must change the conversation. IT value is dead. Business outcomes are real and the only measure of IT worth.”     Stephanie Overby, CIO Magazine, May 15, 2011 In case you missed the cover story from the latest issue of … Continue reading

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CMDB/CMS: Still the Center of your IT Universe?

RightStar’s prospects and new customers often tell us that they know exactly where all their IT assets are located. Later, when our consultants get on site, we find out that just isn’t the case. Normally we find disparate home grown … Continue reading

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Five Myths of ITIL Certification

Last week, Nikki Haase, RightStar’s Director of Process Consulting and Training, led a three-day ITIL v3 Foundation Certification class at our new RightStar HQ training facility. Comprised of 13 customers and 3 RightStar employees, the class proved to be an … Continue reading

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