Matt Beran

Matt Beran

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Service Management geek with two decades of implementation experience. Challenging industry norms, giving practical advice, and providing unique approaches to Service Management. Sr. Product Marketing Manager at InvGate and a highly regarded speaker at conferences worldwide.

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Company

InvGate
Sr. Product Marketing Manager

A non-platform, fit-for-purpose Service Management software company. InvGate provides modern IT service management and asset management software that helps organizations streamline operations, improve service delivery, and empower teams with intuitive tools.

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Presentations & Speaking

2026
Breaking the Mold: Inspiration for Teams Looking to Break Out
Service & Support World National HDI Conference · Register
Optimizing IT Costs Across IT Practices by Leveraging AI
ACE Conference by IAITAM · Register
Experiment Management: How I Learned to Survive and Celebrate Mistakes
SDI Spark26 · Register
2025
The Best IT Services are INVISIBLE
SDI Spark · View slides
User Research Methods for IT Service and Support
Service Management World · View slides
How to Stay Relevant During the AI Transformation
MiniCon (HDI Minnesota), Unofficial Support World Live · View slides
2024
How to Provide 5 Star Service
SITS · View slides
Unlearning IT: How Service Management Is Letting Your Business and Department Down
Support World Live, SDI Mexico · View slides
Service Blueprinting: How to Build a Process Map on Steroids
Support Driven · View slides
AI in Service and Support: Past, Present and Future
MiniCon (HDI Minnesota) · View slides
Visualizing Work: Streams, Journeys, Maps and More
Support World Live · View slides
2023
Co-creation of Value: Pairing the Design Cycle with ITIL
Your Career is Yours: Your Personal Brand
2022
Demystifying User Research and Improving Surveys
Distributed IT: How I Got in a Fight with a Wall Street Journalist
Co-creation of Value: How to Design IT Processes That People Enjoy
Enterprise Service Management: Living the ESM Dream
2021
Bootstrapping Experience: Using the Design Lifecycle to Co-create Value
2019
How to Implement Enterprise Service Management
2018
Hacking the Value of Approvals
2016
Tracking Users and Improving Experiences
2015
Everyone Can Be a Millennial: Collaboration Ageism
2013
Keeping Up with Consumers: Modern IT
2011
IT in the Age of Social Media

Videos

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Conference Talks

Conference Talks

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Podcast Archive

Ticket Volume

Hundreds of episodes covering IT, ITSM, Asset Management, cybersecurity, governance, and career development with guests who introduce new ways of thinking about service experiences and improving collaboration. Browse the full archive.

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Resources

ITAM Compliance Gap Assessment

Need to do a quick gap analysis for compliance? Here's a VERY easy to use cheat sheet.

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Example of an XLA

Need to see what a team ACTUALLY uses for their XLA? Here's one to view.

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Service Blueprint MIRO Template

Start with this rough Service Blueprint to design an agreed upon view. Then iterate!

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Service Blueprint Example

Here's an example output of months of honing a service blueprint into an onboarding experience.

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Projects

IT Asset Tycoon

A satirical browser-based simulation game where you manage IT Asset Management at MegaCorp Inc. Survive audits, tame shadow IT, and chase ISO 27001 certification through corporate chaos.

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