PRESS RELEASE: Sollertis and Service-Flow Alliance brings Business Relationship Management (BRM) and IT Business Alignment to all ITSM platforms Swindon, UK – Helsinki, Finland Sollertis, creator and provider of the world’s first Strategic Business Relationship Management (BRM) solution, and Service-Flow, integration service provider, today announced cooperation in providing the availability of the Sollertis BRM solution, Convergence, for any […]
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Simon Kent • October 12, 2017
Sollertis and Service-Flow Alliance brings Business Relationship Management (BRM) and IT Business Alignment to all ITSM platforms
Simon Kent • September 4, 2017
How KCS is making organisations more intelligent
Comaround is an organisation that specialises in self-service and knowledge management. This case study interview shows how ComAround is using Knowledge Centred Service (KCS®) to capture collective knowledge and build smarter organisations.
Simon Kent • August 1, 2017
Overcoming the culture of fear which paralyses IT
Initiatives such as BizDevOps and Agile are designed to eliminate silos and improve the effectiveness and relevance of business technology delivered. But they will only succeed if leaders remove a critical barrier: fear.
Simon Kent • July 5, 2017
The ‘intangible’ wrecking your IT projects
Why has IT so far failed to deliver what the business needs? It’s time to look beyond the blockbuster strategies and instead elevate the importance of something that has been massively underestimated in the development of corporate technology.
Simon Kent • March 21, 2017
Forget alignment: business IT convergence will lead digital transformation
Business and IT alignment was once presented as the method for breaking the introverted, silo structure which stops IT from delivering business value. There is a fundamental flaw in the alignment model that is preventing IT from leading digital business transformation.
Simon Kent • February 10, 2017
Happy #BRMDay – Why Strategic BRM is critical to digital business success!
Today is #BRMDay, the internationally recognised day that celebrates the outstanding work of Business Relationship Managers throughout the world. As a BRMP (Business Relationship Management Professional) and proud holder of a BRMI Trailblazer 2016 award from the Business Relationship Management Institute, I am honoured to be a part of this outstanding community and profession. This […]
Simon Kent • January 26, 2017
Why BRM will take centre stage in 2017
Business technology is no longer a department, it is a virtual entity without definable boundaries. The challenge of managing this sprawl is why Business Relationship Management (BRM) is set to become the principle that underpins all business IT.
Simon Kent • October 7, 2016
Let’s talk about the communication crisis in ITSM
Poor communication has blighted the development of ITSM since its inception, yet we’re still sleeping on the value of talking. The damage caused by the ITSM communications crisis must be reversed – and this change is an emergency change!
Simon Kent • September 22, 2016
Is the elephant in the room destroying your IT projects?
Commentators and analysts spend countless hours debating the reasons for IT project and migration failures, but the main problem is plain to see. Why do we ignore the obvious, and what can be done to reverse the pattern of costly IT project failures?
Simon Kent • September 7, 2016
University of Lincoln selects Sollertis Convergence to spearhead Business Relationship Management drive
September 7 2016, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. University of Lincoln has chosen Sollertis Convergence and Cherwell Service Management to underpin its Business Relationship Management strategy by providing a 360-degree view of relationships between IT, operations, colleagues and students. Cherwell Service Management is the leading platform for automating and managing ITSM and was already on the University […]