ServiceNow Won’t Fix a Broken Process

I’ve seen organizations buy ServiceNow thinking it will automatically fix their IT processes. It never does. The platform is powerful — but it’s still just a tool. If the process behind it is unclear,...

From Incident to Problem: Breaking the Cycle, Not Just the Ticket

In every organization I’ve worked with, the handoff from Incident to Problem management is where real maturity shows. Most teams log problems reactively — after a pattern becomes impossible to ignore....

Incident Tasks vs. Parent/Child Incidents: Knowing When to Use Each

Over the years, I’ve seen many ServiceNow teams blur the line between incident tasks and parent/child incidents — using them interchangeably and creating confusion in the process. The truth is, they s...

Driving End-User Adoption of the Service Catalog

Making the Service Catalog the Easy Button for EmployeesRolling out a Service Catalog in ServiceNow is often celebrated as a milestone. But the real test isn’t the launch—it’s whether employees actual...

Structured Release Management Importance

If you’ve ever been part of a large ServiceNow implementation, you probably know the feeling —the Friday-night panic before a production move, a handful of hotfixes sneaking in at the last minute, and...

Using Guided Tours in ServiceNow: Best Practices and Pitfalls

Guided Tours in ServiceNow are a powerful way to onboard users, train staff, and introduce new features—all without leaving the platform. They provide step-by-step walkthroughs directly within the UI,...

Approval SLAs in ServiceNow

One of the interesting challenges that often comes up during ServiceNow implementations is how to track Approval SLAs — especially when you have multiple levels of approvals (User, Line Manager, Group...

Endorsement/Custom Approvals for Service Requests in ServiceNow

In many organizations, the standard ServiceNow approval model works well — an approver reviews a request and either approves or rejects it.But in real-world scenarios, especially for service requests ...

Incident Routing Across Support Tiers Using ServiceNow and CSDM Principles

One of the most overlooked aspects of Incident Management is how efficiently tickets get routed to the right support team. It sounds simple — assign to the correct group — but when you’re running a mu...

The Case Against Catalog Consolidation

When dealing with your Service Catalog, consolidation is more often than not the goal for simplicity. The thinking goes, the fewer items your end users have to choose from the better the user experien...

Out-of-the-Box Recommended Actions in ServiceNow ITSM

ServiceNow provides the following Recommended Actions out-of-the-box (OOB) for ITSM, particularly for modules like Incident, Problem, and Change. Recommended Action Plugin Capability AI Search Recomme...

Using Playbooks to Streamline Major Incident Management in ServiceNow

Major Incident Management (MIM) is a critical process in ITSM, designed to handle high-impact incidents that disrupt essential services. ServiceNow enhances this process with Playbooks—a powerful feat...

Major Incident Management - Common Pitfalls

Major Incident Management (MIM) in ServiceNow is designed to handle high-impact incidents that disrupt business-critical services. Unlike standard incidents, major incidents require rapid coordination...

Trigger NowAssist Summarization for incident, problem record automatically using Flows/BR

Ever wonder how to trigger GenAI Auto-summarization for incident, problem tickets, from the Flows / BRs? Though this may not be a use case with your implementation or customer, I thought of tinkering ...