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Jan Skrabanek

Interview: ITAM needs to be proactive and look towards the future

David Foxen has years of experience in IT Asset Management and track record of saving companies millions of pounds through implementing and maturing successful ITAM functions. He is a founder of SAM Beast consultancy agency. He shares his passion for ITAM via live LinkedIn and Youtube stream. We...

Jan Skrabanek

24.2.2022

7 minutes of reading

The specifics of IT management in hospitals and healthcare facilities

Healing people is a complex discipline where information technology is increasingly playing an important role. Most workplaces today are equipped with smart devices, connected to a network. The X-ray machine sends its images directly to the system for evaluation. Pharmacy systems regulate the...

Jan Skrabanek

31.5.2022

6 minutes of reading

Interview: Change Management can’t be done halfway

Rudolf Slaba is an ITIL Expert and Process Specialist at O2 Czech Republic. In addition, he owns a pack of working dogs for hunting wild boar and trains ITIL courses throughout the country. We talked about the change management process and its deployment in companies.

Jan Skrabanek

2.6.2022

7 minutes of reading

It doesn’t pay to overlook dragons. Not even in IT.

‘There's NO Such Thing as a Dragon,’ the mother repeats over and over again in Jack Kent’s charming fairy tale of that name. A small dragon appears in her son Billy’s room in the morning and he runs downstairs to tell her right away. But the mother doesn’t take the news seriously at all. There’s no...

Jan Skrabanek

13.6.2022

5 minutes of reading

Interview: You can’t be dogmatic about ITIL®. But you won’t find any nonsense in it.

You won’t find a classic salesperson at ALVAO. Nor in the person of Zdeněk Jelínek, who has been in charge of our activities in Slovakia since September. Originally an IT manager and ITIL sceptic, he has become one of the few certified ITIL experts in the Czech Republic. We talked about ITIL 4 and...

Jan Skrabanek

29.6.2022

5 minutes of reading

Interview: Systems failure can paralyze the hospital, yet health care has to keep going

David Zažímal manages IT at Jihlava hospital. We talked about what a critical outage looks like in a hospital, what specific problems one has to face, and why the computer labels have to be more durable than in other sectors.

Jan Skrabanek

17.5.2022

7 minutes of reading

Interview: Project management with Tomáš Gregor

Tomáš Gregor originally studied dam construction. However, he has spent most of his career managing large projects. In this interview, we talked about why the most important aspect of project management is the human factor and how to handle tense situations.

Jan Skrabanek

8.8.2022

9 minutes of reading

Don’t underestimate corporate culture and do gain ambassadors for your project

In an NHL exhibition game in 1969, Ted Green nearly lost his life. A blow with a high stick to his unprotected head caused Ted a serious brain injury. In the Swedish league, they made helmet-wearing mandatory. It was clear that Swedish hockey was safer, yet NHL players still didn’t like helmets....

Jan Skrabanek

7.8.2022

7 minutes of reading

Change that will outlive you: Managing transformative projects, part 1

Read about change management from different angles, get inspired by our own experience with best practices and learn from people with many years of know-how

Jan Skrabanek

26.8.2022

6 minutes of reading