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		<title>Evergreen and net.works - A Merger of Equals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Net.works and Evergreen are merging!!
Well this is very big news for us.  You often hear of mergers of equals, and you don’t believe it.  Well you can believe this.  Both companies are the same size and are in highly complementary market spaces.  
Both company names have strong brand equity within the HP customer and partner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2008/02/20/evergreen-and-networks-a-merger-of-equals/</link>
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		<title>Quick Wins in ITSM or Where&#8217;s the Gum and String?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron,  thanks for reading…I read your blog regarding quick wins and ITSM  I’m a bit concerned that you left out bubble gum, bailing wire and Velcro (my personal favorites) J Seriously though, in my fifteen plus years Program/Project Management experiences in IT and Service Management and software development, I’ve found the requirement to establish rapid time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2008/02/01/quick-wins-in-itsm-or-wheres-the-gum-and-string/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel your question about unsuccessful ITIL implementations is a good one.   Although I can&#8217;t really provide any specific customer detail for a case study due to confidentiality, yet I can provide some overall insight and opinion based upon experience and other guidelines I’ve seen through industry analysts, scar tissue and the wisdom of others
In my opinion, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2008/01/29/lessons-learned/</link>
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		<title>Managing the Backlog- Mind the Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One key metric that Problem and Incident Managers are typically looking at is their incident/problem “backlog”.  Many incident or problem managers may recognize problem/Incident backlog as the average elapsed time to date of “outstanding” problems needing resolution.   In my experience managing global, high volume incident/problem support centers, backlog measurement is a key operational measurement to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2008/01/14/managing-the-backlog-mind-the-balance/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Tough Customers Over Incident Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you are scheduled to meet with that really tough customer who has issues with your overall service desk or incident management performance.   My experience in running an incident management organization of over 100k problems per year supporting Fortune 500 customers may help with an approach that almost always facilitated a healthy and productive (although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2008/01/10/meeting-tough-customers-over-incident-management/</link>
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		<title>Seeking ITIL, ServiceCenter, AssetCenter Professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked a lot in the last year about ITIL practice areas, &#8216;real world&#8217; ITIL business problems and ITIL implementation challenges.  Now my question to all of you ITIL professionals out there is, are you ready to rock and roll?
 We&#8217;re experiencing incredible growth here at Evergreen and we&#8217;re actively recruiting all types of ITIL, ITSM, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/11/13/seeking-itil-servicecenter-assetcenter-professionals/</link>
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		<title>Change Management - Are You Fighting Fires or Preventing Them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been talking lots lately about Change management, so I have a question for all of you out there who feel like all you do is fight fires.
How many Changes does your organization make per month? Now think of the impact on the business.  Are you pushing more than 500 changes per month?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/10/15/change-management-are-you-fighting-fires-or-preventing-them/</link>
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		<title>Managing Change - It’s All About the Lifecycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been talking about change lifecycle management lately, so I thought it might be interesting to dissect the components of Change.
Key improvements in Change Management can be found in four phases – planning, approval, execution and review.  Most organizations tend to spend all their time in execution but there are valuable opportunities for improvement in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/09/28/managing-change-it%e2%80%99s-all-about-the-lifecycle/</link>
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		<title>Calculating the Business Gains of Change Process Re-engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best places to start ‘changing change management’ is through classic business process re-engineering. These efforts show the greatest gains when looking at workflows that are more complex (have a greater number of steps and approvals) and cross three or more areas (silos) in going from start to finish. Organizations that have not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/09/14/calculating-the-business-gains-of-change-process-re-engineering/</link>
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		<title>KPAs and Configuration Management: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot of talk these days about KPAs and ITIL process areas. KPAs (Key Process Areas) are used to help develop and measure the benchmarked standards of ITIL and are a good way of measuring your organization’s ‘maturity’ level within an ITIL process area (such as Configuration Management
KPAs apply to a repeatable maturity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/09/05/kpas-and-configuration-management-how-does-your-organization-stack-up/</link>
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