The Enterprise Digital Podcast

In which Roy Atkinson of Clifton Butterfield drives his Jaguar safely and clearly through the minefield of customer experience to elucidate on the value of good CX and employee experience. Roy refers to some research he was involved with at HDI and itSMF USA on ESM – initially ESM was driven by IT but more recently now well out of IT and now owned by senior execs. Roy is also a Fellow of the Institute for Digital Transformation - get the CIO operating at a business level..! We discuss the ‘experience economy’, happiness, elements of ITIL (outside of IT) and Roy also describes his favourite whisky tipple…

In which Andie Kis of Devoteam describes one of her recent large ESM projects, how this has evolved and developed from an initial technology project into an organisational-wide transformation programme. Andie highlights the necessity of good self service at the core of the programme and the value of a common platform. Also, there is the need to use simple user-friendly language and terminology, as part of a ‘human-centred’ experience. We also learn Andie’s favourite (gin-related) tipple…

This episode features Knowledge guru Aprill Allen, discussing real life experiences of how we can get real value from knowledge management KCS, and how we are al knowledge workers. There are some brilliant nuggets of wisdom from Aprill in this session – We are all knowledge workers. KCS is important. If it’s ITSM, it’s not strategic enough,  Communities of Practice, Knowledge Workers are Knowledge Creators. Also we learn about Aprill’s Top Drink Tip: Spicy Bloody Mary.

Mark has been driving a full-on organisational-wide ESM programme over the last few years, well beyond the IT department. We learn a number of salient and practical tips on how to make this work and stay mostly sane. We learn Mark’s favourite tipple for the ED Podcast bar and how he can fix your car as well as your PC - and your ESM project.

In which we discuss the value of self service for ESM, despite Barclays’ attempt to hi-jack the conversation. We also discuss the SDI conference and the need to move on from exponential scaremongering.

How should we set and manage expectations? What are OKRs and how can they be used – what are XLAs and OXMs and why are they all better than SLAs? What is all the fuss about Product Management and ITSM/ESM?

The convergence towards a giant ice cream cone – or how we are moving towards some standards ways of doing ‘work’ – using ‘things’ and doing ‘stuff’. What are the common things that people do in business teams that we also do in IT?

What is the difference/overlap between ESM and Digital Transformation? Are we on to something - what are the key definitions and distinctions? Does anyone use ‘ESM’ outside of IT? Does it need a name? what tools and practices can we define? What about the human factor?