New thinking doesn’t always throw out past lessons, in fact it often is built on what we’ve learned. Unlearning or rethinking involves challenging the status quo but can still mix the old with the new. The trick is knowing what should stay and what should go.
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The Case for Unified Service Management
The overall customer experience, when viewed from the eyes of the customer (in this case a patient!) are very much dependent on a huge number of interactions across an extremely complex service supply chain.
There will be specialized practices for each of these different service domains. If any industry segment screams for a unified approach to managing these interdependent services, it is the health care industry.
Service Management’s Rube Goldberg
Service Management doesn’t have to be a Rube Goldberg
A Job to be Done: Understanding USM’s Facility
A service is a supported facility. USM’s universal definition of a service requires some understanding of the term facility; it’s not what you may initially think it is… A business facility is often thought of as a location or a building. For example, an office building, a hotel, or a manufacturing plant. That’s why we …
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USM, Leadership and the Butterfly Effect
You never know if you’re seeing things others don’t, and this may happen a lot when I talk about the Unified Service Management (USM) method. So, that’s what this post is about. USM is based on systems thinking. At its core is the management of the routines of an enterprise, and these routines encompass all …
Simple is Good
It’s time to simplify service management for the enterprise
Mindful Monday: Think for Yourself
Like many I’ve been thinking about — and playing with — ChatGPT. [The complete answers are at the end of this post] So I asked it to explain unified service management. ChatGPT’s response was specifically oriented around information technology. But I did not ask it to explain unified IT service management; I asked it to …
Simplify before automating
While I understand the rabid desire to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate service management, we shouldn’t forget a basic lesson: Simplify processes before automating them. Simplification will also simplify your automation efforts, simplify maintenance/changes and likely lead to more sustainable and lasting improvement. This is one reason why the USM method’s 5 …
Put ITIL on hold in 2023 and have a Happy New Year
Legacy practice frameworks increase costs, complicate automation and are creating an unsustainable mess, sucking the life out of the enterprise with increased training, consulting and tooling costs.
Holiday Wishes
As you’ll see by the poem below, I’m more than ready for the Holiday Season. My best wishes to all and I hope you will find service management’s missing link in the coming new year.