ITSM Weekly the Podcast (Week36) - Guest Speaker: Ian Clayton

My dad was a mechanic, he is the farthest thing from a "Computer Guy" as you can get.  Seriously, I have to use Webex to support him because I just don't have the patience to walk him through screen clicks, but that's a whole other blog.  Yet, he was not unlike most of the IT professionals I have worked with.  Let me explain: He owned his on Garage, a Service Station, so it was naturally ingrained into me that when people had problems with their technology (uhm yes, Cars are technology) that they would take it to him to have it "serviced".  This idea of going to professionals to have your problems handled is by no means new.  Yet somewhere along the line service standards changed.  Let me illustrate.  I remember pumping gas as a kid for my dads customers (yeah for real, people didn't actually do it themselves), I would even check the oil, wash the windshields, and even clean the wiper blades.  Also, you could get any type of car repaired, and we did any type of repair. We were a "Full Service" station.  Times have changed we now have "Self Service" stations where you get Gas and typically food goods and other non-automotive related convenience items.  "Full Service" stations you get your gas pumped and that's usually it.  As for car repairs, you go to specialists, Brakes, Mufflers, Transmissions, etc...  The progression has been, as people became more comfortable with their technology, they have become more self sufficient, able to service themselves and look for value added services to their time and convenience.   

I see the IT industry heading down the same path.  IT staff used to be great to help setup network switches, desktops, install applications.  Now an office manager or receptionist won't get hired without knowing these skills.  Thus IT leaders need to look at the trends to help customers be serviced better, more conveniently, enable and empower them to help themselves.  In Episode 36 we have a great guest and legend in the IT Service Management space, Ian Clayton.  Ian is a very forward thinking expert on customer service management and speaks frequently on the concept of "Outside-In".  I hope you enjoy this podcast, as much as I did and I can not recommend his book enough, USMBOK for IT service Management.  Ian has offered a %50 when you enter the code "servicesphere" at check out.

Shownotes and details here: http://www.servicesphere.com/blog/2010/10/11/itsm-weekly-the-podcast-episode-36.html


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Episode 36 Topics:

• SIM CIO Roundtable (Boston)
• RedMonk Podcast
• LinoIT (The ITSM ITIL Wall of Death)
• Free ITSM Tool (OTRS)
• App Economy
• Bearonvision Summons Ian Clayton
• USMBOK History
• OGC ITIL version number Fear (see page 6-7) > Know your customer
• Walmart Customers > Own your brand
• Customer Experience Management
• TSA Junk Scanner
• Thunder Cats
• MIS Hooper if you’re NASTY
• Pink 11 Conference Radical Elements
• itSMF USA History and Founding
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• ITIL not the enemy
• Nicholas Carr “IT Doesn’t Matter”
• Viagra for ITSM
• George Westerman defines customer
• JUST LISTEN FOR THE NEXT FEW, TURN OFF EVERYTHING AND LISTEN
• Service Transition (ITIL Book)
• USMBOK
• Incident is UNDER a service request, NOT at the same level (Inside out thinking)
• 311 Service Center
• Dead Animals and Service Request
• “Getting it in place is MORE important than getting it PERFECT first” – Matt Beran (Baby JC Wisdom #BJCW
• Why would IT want to make things worse than they are?
• Service Nursing, from Real ITSM
• Build for Micro Single Purpose Apps (This is a recurring theme on podcast 26-31)
• Select, Select, Submit
• Google Search for Torch (Torch vs Flashlight)
• To understand ITIL vs understand Service You need this
• Sticky Website (we need Sticky Service Management)
• Is it DNA that controls IT Self Service Usage?
• Evolving to be self-center as IT professionals
• The AxeMakers Gift
• The Power of Prayer
• Does Amazon do great customer service or did they condition you to their SERVICE MODEL?
• Specialtys
• Can you be an IT person and never focus on IT again (Bringing Service BACK, Brining Human BACK)
• Where are the Metrics in Customer Centric vs IT centric management
• We are the World (Show the experience and the pain)
• No Beran didn’t send the Link (Service Fail)

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