In the early 1980s service marketing emerged as a separate field of study side by side with the development of ITIL. But for some reason the two never met. While service marketing focused on the consumer’s role in the service consumption processes and especially the encounter between the consumer and the service, ITIL was focusing on service provision and the service provider’s processes and practices. However, it is never too late to catch up. With the ITIL 4 Drive Stakeholder Value publication the two finally met and sweet music filled the heart. The publication combines the best of both worlds and provides practical guidance on how to co-create value through close engagement. Explore the customer journey step by step and get practical advise on how to:

–          Understand value propositions

–          Foster relationships and engage with stakeholders

–          Shape demand and design service offerings

–          Align and agree on expectations

–          Onboard customers and users

–          Co-create service experiences, and

–          Realize value

Also, engage in the discussion about to which degree these insights are relevant to internal IT organizations and how they relate to a decade where product orientation is king.

Biography: (pic attached) Christian F. Nissen has 35 years of experience in the IT domain, especially with IT service management, IT governance and Information Security. He is recognized as an international thought leader, author and lecturer, but also as an experienced and down-to-earth practitioner striving to make things happen in real life. He has a long proven track record from consulting of more than 150 of the largest private and public organizations in Denmark. He has contributed to the development of both ITIL® and COBIT® best practice, and most recent he is the lead author of the “ITIL® 4 Drive Stakeholder Value” publication.

For software testing, there is the challenge of literally going beyond the boundaries of test environments to validate the customer experience. What does this exactly mean? To what extent can the term “subjectivity” help us in this journey?
And if possible, how can we align this with factual reporting as we are used to in testing and IT service management through SLAs.

This session will provide some answers on value assurance from the angle of software testing.

Biography

For more than 24 years Wim Demey has been active in software testing and has evolved to a generalist covering different aspects and roles within testing.
Driven by versatility and a great eagerness to learn new things, Wim is always looking how and where he can stretch his comfort zone to manage new challenges. This fits perfectly with his role as Solution Architect Testing for CTG Belgium. In this role he supports & advices customers about their testing related challenges. He has a special interest in technical topics like performance testing, test management tools and AI.
Wim is a regular speaker at (inter)national test conferences & seminars.

Dear members of itSMF, we would like to invite you to an interesting workshop “Grow your own organic high-speed IT operating model”, which will take place within the ITSM Practical cycle and will launch this year’s seminars.
The lecture will be in English and will be presented by Mark Smalley, who is the author of the book. ITIL4: High-velocity IT. Mark’s main area of interest is the management of IT systems and services.

Email eddy@itsmf.be for your FREE ticket. (paying itSMF Be members only)

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On Wednesday 6/4 and Thursday 7/4 SRVISION is organizing an ONSITE conference in Utrecht on FLOW
in IT management.
Being in flow is a cornerstone for success these days. Almost all organisations are in some form busy
enabling flow in their delivery capability. Be it Digital, Agile, Devops…, these transformation are all
introducing flow.
This allows teams to enhance their value delivery. Flow drives team collaboration and speeds up
feedback loops to enhance service quality.
Present for our paying members: itSMF Belgium is thankful to SRVISION for offering us a 15% reduction
to the listed pricing. Email eddy@itsmf.be and you will receive a voucher to claim your reduction when
you fill in the registration form.

We have 20 vouchers to distribute. First come, first served.
Get submerged in flow and join the keynotes, break-out sessions, hands-on cases, workshops and much
more. All information on the conference, the speakers, their topics, and practicals can be found here:
https://srvision.nl/en

Motivation is one of the levers for well-being and performance. How do you ensure that
you stay motivated and that you motivate your colleagues and partners?
How do you ensure that you as an individual, and also your team, can achieve top
performances while you blossom full of energy and experience no stress? Part of the
answer lies in how you stimulate your motivation and that of those around you.
In this webinar you learn how to optimally motivate yourself and the people you work
with. Without control, power or status, but from a deep trust and real connection.
Thanks to a tool that you can use immediately, and not only in your organization, but
also at home.

This session will be held in English

Biography
Hermina Van Coillie


Dr. Hermina Van Coillie is a motivation expert, senior consultant and business manager
at Flourish. She has been guiding teams, managers and organizations for years and,
thanks to the basic principles of SDT (self-determination theory) and connective
communication, she brings them to their optimal level of functioning. Not only do the
employees and managers flourish as a result, but the organizations and their customers
also reap the benefits of her approach.
Hermina Van Coillie obtained her doctorate at KU Leuven (Quantitative and Personality
Psychology) in 2004 and worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where her focus was on individual
differences in the experience of emotions.
She worked for fourteen years as a research expert at the Securex study center, where
she wrote numerous white papers, reports, press releases and scientific articles and
often appeared in the national and regional press. Her research themes are aging and
working longer, burnout, well-being, mobility, flexibility, time and place independent
work, work addiction, work-life balance, remuneration and leadership. She always
makes the link with SDT.
She is a much sought-after speaker and often gives lectures, workshops, training
courses, guest lectures and masterclasses on her research themes. She is a member of
the Council of Wise Men of the ESF and teaches in various HRM postgraduate courses
(Ehsal Management School, HOGENT, Artevelde University College Ghent). She is a
member of the Advisory Board of the Leuven Mindfulness Center and is one of the
experts at “Peace For Talent”.

Has your organisation an unstable or foggy view on her demand, you might also struggle with portfolio management. In the past 20 years we have seen IT evolving from a technical oriented team to a more business-oriented department.  Service Management became hot and in the latest evolution value is the key word. But how do I organise my demand? What is Portfolio Management really? And why is it so complicated?

In this presentation, Pieter Hoekstra will talk about the 7 steps to improve your grip on demand with portfolio management. During this 1 hour session, the participants will also work in a short break out to experience one of the steps. The impact of Technical Dept will be explained in relation to a Minimum Viable Service.  And how release management is one of the cornerstones to manage the workload while keeping a professional way of working and to manage expectations.

BIO of Pieter Hoekstra

My first idea was that my work is bridging the gap between business and IT. But behind this idea is mainly bridging the gap between groups and people in their mutual relationship, the processes, technology, and their routines. I found a unique mix of training, workshops, implementation, and improvement of the services of (IT) organizations.

My career started as a trainer and IT consultant at Pink Elephant, for their client Shell. I later worked for KLM, in their IT organization, for more than 10 years, and then in Marketing and HR. In collaboration with McKinsey, I have been able to do strategic projects and have experienced how consultancy work works. Within CTG Belgium, I became business unit manager and learned a lot about the Belgium market.  Subsequently, I made the step to organizational consultancy firm Quint Wellington Redwood (Quint), in roles as trainer, project manager, and country manager Belgium and Luxembourg. Fascinated by the (dis) functioning of groups, I followed intensive training in group dynamics.

Since 2012, I am part of Begrip.be as managing partner, helping people further and providing new insights in the field of group dynamics and service provision based on their bottlenecks. Begrip.be is accredited education partner, certified for USM, licensed for ITIL and Insights.  I am author of ITIL4 training material, reviewer of Service Management content and recent also involved as co-writer in DASA (DevOps) material.

itSMF CZ is providing us with a gift on Thursday 20/01.

Bundled into 1 package, you are invited from 9:00-11:25 for 3 English spoken sessions:

  • From 9:00 – 9:45, Paul Wilkinson will provide you 10 tips for transformational success
  • From 9:45 – 10:15, Kaimar Karu dives into Digital Governance
    Break
  • From 10:55 – 11:25, Eddy Peters talks about Agile, the way to go

And the best of all, it is free if you are a paying itSMF Belgium member!!!

Register here: https://conference.itsmf.cz/rocnik/conference-2022-en/

In the participants section, select Guest of the itMFF for your free ticket.


Paul Wilkinson

Paul summarizes his top 10 success factors. These success factors represent hundreds of thousands of hours of shared learning that can help accelerate and improve your chances of transformational success and reduce the pain, cost, and anger of business if we fail.

Kaimar Karu

The key challenges that organizations and nations face in the transition to digital governance are not digital, but are completely analog in nature. In this lecture, Kaimar Karu will explore these challenges, suggest ways to address them, and provide models for integrating technology into existing ways of working.

Eddy Peters

In this presentation, we will explore that being an agile organization has a different definition depending on where you ask. Failure to understand this difference will have a profound impact on development and service organization collaboration. As a result, the agile promise of rapid quality delivery can prove to be a recipe for rapid failure that will adversely affect the user experience. And that’s something developers and service providers don’t want. To understand the difference, we can explore what can be done to ensure that agility fulfills this promise and becomes a tool for the user experience with constant benefits.

This event is a remote Zoom event

When Paul Wilkinson announced on Linkedin (as a joke) that he had a new framework that would change everything!  He had 8 times the usual amount of hits! We in IT like shiny new things, thinking (and hoping) that they will solve our problems, but many of our problems come from the fact that we haven’t got the basics right! And we never got the old things to do what they were intended to do. He have seen this repeat in cycles over the last 40 years.

Now digital transformation is the latest Industry Shiny New Thing. But 70% of transformation initiatives fail to achieve the hoped for values. “I could have predicted that this would happen!” Not because I’m smart but because of the basics. So why are they failing? What are the basics we still haven’t got right and what is the ‘Shiny New Thing’ that would make everything better?  

Bio:

Paul has been actively involved in ITSM for more than 40 years in a variety of roles from operations, to development to IT management. He was also actively involved in the development of ITIL Practitioner which introduced the Guiding principles to align ITIL to a more Agile way of working. Paul is Business Development Director of GamingWorks, the company that developed the internationally renowned ‘Apollo 13 – an ITSM case experience’ ITSM simulation game, the ‘Phoenix Project’ DevOps simulation and most recently the MarsLander simulation which can be used to support ITIL®4 training and culture change. He was also co-author and developer of the ‘ABC of ICT’ (The Attitude, Behavior and Culture of ICT) publications, having conducted ABC workshops and simulation workshops with delegates representing more than 5000 organizations worldwide. He is a DASA ambassador.

If Corona permits, the last event of this challenging year 2021 will be an onsite event.
itSMF Belgium wants to let you experience what Agile Service Management is all about in a fun context.

When : Wednesday 1/12 starting at 14:30 until 20:30

Where : Diegem, Culliganlaan 1D ( CTG office)

For Members only, or 50 € entrance fee.

With this MarsLander gamification setup, you will be challenged to think smart, act right and most of all, work as a team. The flight will be demanding, hitting the business objectives challenging. Up to you to make it work. Together…

With this event, we also want to express our gratitude to Paul Wilkinson, for the massive impact he had on our community, building up knowledge, awareness, insights, aha-moments. Even in these last days of his professional career, he will be your Mission Director. And as usual, he will be grumpy, he will be on top of you, but all for one purpose. Make you understand you are part of something bigger. Understand that, and you survive. Don’t… Well Paul can be a real pain in…

Places are limited, so subscribe early if you want to be part of the ride.

The slovakian chapter of itSMF is hosting a conference about Value!

Last year was a catalyst that brought digital business innovation to the forefront of all organizations. 2021 is the year to build on this momentum to enhance customer engagement, experience, generate new revenue and serve our customers.

itSMF Slovensko, a leader in the world of IT Service Management in CEE, is organizing 15th annual IT Service Management conference and addresses the “Value Experience” as an inspiration for all business stakeholders for whom 2020 was one of those challenging years. Share and prioritize what real value is, decide for meaningful changes to get the best value out of it.

While we build the full IT Service Management Conference 2021 agenda, explore the conference topics.

Topics at a Glance

  • Business value
  • People – Hoax Value
  • Customer Experience
  • Digitalization
  • ITSM/ESM
  • Enterprise Service Management
  • Software development and support
  • ITIL 4
  • Automation after 2021 – (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, AI)

This year’s program will offer interesting keynotes and breakout sessions dedicated to Value Experience in the IT Service Management industry.

The conference is designed for service managers and business professionals working in this field. We value diversity, and welcome professionals with varying backgrounds and experience