And the Award for Most Popular Movie Used in Passwords Goes to…

With the Oscars taking place over the weekend, Specops refreshed their breached password list and revealed the most popular movies used in leaked passwords. According to new research, which analyzed more than 800 million breached passwords – a subset of Specops Breached Password Protection, which contains over 2 billion passwords breached passwords – fan favorite…

How to Structure Your IT Service Desk to Support Process Improvements

Buying a modern service desk tool won’t solve all your problems in and of itself. Although these tools are designed to ensure general best practices are met, service desk tools must also be configured to address your organization’s specific essential protocols. In a recent Info-Tech research shows that tiered service desks with a first-tier generalist…

Pink Elephant voted best large training organisation in the Netherlands!

Pink Elephant voted best large training organisation in the Netherlands!   Our Dutch colleagues took home GOLD in The Best Educator of the Netherlands (BOVNL) awards. On Thursday, January 9th of January 2020, the best Dutch training organisations from 2019 were again announced by Springest, the largest training comparison company in Europe. The Best Educator…

Pink Elephant wins King Price

KING PRICE CHOOSES PINK ELEPHANT!

King Price Chooses Pink Elephant! The 1st of August 2019 sees the Pink Elephant meeting the “king” following a three-month transition of the King Price Service Desk environment to the Pink Elephant Global Service Centre in Woodmead, Johannesburg. Leading with a PinkScan™ ITSM Maturity assessment, Pink and King Price developed a strategic roadmap that culminated…

Agile Service Management – a mindset as well as a framework

According to “The Agile Service Management Guide”, Agile Service Management involves: “adapting Agile and Scrum values and practices to IT Service Management (ITSM) processes, process design and improvement activities.” Yet, elements of the Agile Manifesto can appear to contradict with tenets of the IT Service Management. For example, the favouring of: “Individuals and interactions” over “Processes and…