The real starting point for agentic AI success

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The AI conversation has shifted. It’s no longer about proving AI works or choosing which tool to deploy. The focus is now about moving pilots into production, and ensuring they deliver real value, day after day. However, there’s a crucial factor to get right first: readiness. 

Most organizations recognize that AI agents are highly effective at driving up team productivity and accelerating business outcomes. But like any new addition to the workforce, those agents need to be onboarded properly.  

Not even the most capable AI agent can resolve a payroll error without access to the right systems. Nor will it get to the bottom of a vendor compliance breach if it doesn’t have the context of your governance framework. Readiness really does matter.  

For Platform Owners, this means looking at what changes are required before you build out your POCs. Are your use cases set up appropriately to track ROI? What skills do you need to invest in internally? And how do you manage data access to mitigate risk?  

To help answer these readiness questions and build a structured plan for adopting agentic AI across the enterprise, we’ve put together a strategic playbook with four clear phases.  

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To complement this, we’ve also created an interactive AI Readiness Assessment tool. This pinpoints where your organization currently is on that adoption journey and what you should focus on to help ensure AI success. 

It only takes a few minutes to complete, and there’s no right or wrong response. Based on your inputs, the tool will create a personalized roadmap to help you move towards the goal end-state of enterprise-wide autonomous workflows. 

Check your agentic readiness 
 

And remember, with ServiceNow you’re not starting from zero. AI is only as useful as the workflows behind it, and you already have a platform built for workflows. Every new AI skill you activate and every use case you scale is supported by a platform that’s proven to put AI to work for people.