itSMF Bulletin February 2023 | Page 6

The main 2023 poll changes in the top five hottest ITSM trends

A comparison of the 2023 and 2022 top-five lists shows that:

·   Value has vaulted from joint #6 in

2022 to the top place for 2023

·   People has jumped from #4 to #2

·   Enterprise service management,

having jumped from #5 to #2 in

2022, has held its top-three

position at #3 in 2023

·   Advanced ITSM dropped from #1

to #4 (after ITSM “advanced”

appeared from nowhere to top

the poll list in 2022). This drop

will likely be partly caused by the

separation of ITIL/ITSM

“advanced” capabilities as an

option for 2023. This topic is still

positioned at #9 (22%)

·   AI/machine learning held fast at

#5 after its joint #6 place in 2022

·   Employee experience dropped

from #5 to #6, perhaps after

everything that has been written

on it during 2022

·   Digital transformation dropped

from joint #3 in 2022 to #8 in

2023.

The chart above (on previous page) shows these and other changes over the last six years.

The probable reasons for the most recent changes will be considered elsewhere.

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Existing hottest ITSM trend content

While the poll was to identify what readers need for 2023, it also allows us to resurface some existing 2022 ITSM content that might be helpful:

1 – Value demonstration

·  ITSM in 2023 – the Real Value of

Understanding Value Comes from

Action

·  For a Friend – I Caused Stress and

Anxiety via Value Stream Mapping

2 People (including attitude, behaviour, and culture (ABC))

·  (Nearly) Everything You Need to

Know About Being an ITSM Pro

·  Onboarding Your People: First

Impressions Count

·  The Great Redundancy and Our

New Ways of Working

·  The State of Well-being in ITSM in

2022

·  What’s (Still) Causing ITSM’s

Well-being Issues?

3 – Enterprise service management

· What’s Needed for Successful

Enterprise Service Management

· Why AI and Automation Powered

ESM and ITSM is Now a Must

4 Advanced ITSM (which we previously called ITSM “advanced”)

There was a lot of head-scratching after this topic was voted top for