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Your IT Reality Check Shred your old IT playbook Welcome to your no-BS IT guide. It’s personalized, practical, and built to help you achieve your automation goals. IT wizard Patty will help you see what’s possible when you automate busywork and give your people back time for strategic work, matched to where your org is today.
Your starting point for better IT Follow the guide to discover your own solution, or if you’re eager to blaze your own trail, jump into the navigation above. Whether you’re firefighting tickets or want to run more efficient operations, there’s more opportunity ahead. The goal isn’t just automation—it’s freeing your team from repetitive work so they can focus on innovation, growth, and strategic impact. We’ll show you where you are today, what’s holding you back, and how intelligent automation and AI can unlock your team’s full potential.
Great... Now what? Below, we’ll show you three levels of IT operations. You’ll recognize yours (probably painfully fast). Then we’ll walk through what’s holding you back, which solutions can help, and what you should do next.
Step 1 Where are you today?
Is your IT mostly reactive? Or are you proactive with people amplified by intelligent systems? Pick what sounds most like your typical Tuesday.
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Step 2 What’s holding you back?
Each team has a few signature challenges. Start with the one that costs you the most time, money, or sleep.
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Step 3 What’s your solution?
We’ll identify which solution actually works, how it works, and the value it delivers standalone—minus the marketing lingo.
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Step 4 What’s next?
Pick your starting point. We’ll show you how to get started in your specific environment without disrupting your stack.
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Why is ServiceNow

the expert?
ServiceNow® has 20+ years of working with IT teams exactly like yours. We’ve seen every type of IT tangle out there—the inner workings of thousands of organizations. We’ve helped teams move from drowning in tickets to running autonomous operations. We’ve automated millions of workflows, orchestrated billions of processes, and learned what actually works at each stage.

 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for AI Applications in IT Service Management, Chris Matchett, Ankita Hundal, Rich Doheny, 2 September 2025

https://www.servicenow.com/thank-you/lpayr/gartner-mq-ai-applications-itsm.html

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patty’s take “There’s no wrong place to start. But there are right steps to take. I know, I’ve been through it.”
Patty
IT Wizard
Step 1

Identify how your team works
Read through the three types of IT teams below, and think about what level of automation exists within your IT stack. Is it manual and reactive, partially automated, or fully automated and connected? Once you know where you stand, we’ll show you what’s possible.
Manual and Reactive
Manual and Reactive

The requests never stop. And neither do you.

This is you if:

  • Your team spends most of their time on repetitive requests.
  • Knowledge lives in people’s heads or scattered docs.
  • Every request requires human intervention.
  • Your ticket queue grows faster than you can close it.
Yep, this sounds like my team
Partially Automated
Partially Automated

You’ve patched together some automation, but the seams are showing.

This is you if:

  • You‘ve automated some requests (the “easy wins”) but most work is still manual.
  • Different tools for different tasks—nothing‘s connected.
  • Onboarding still requires touching 6+ systems manually.
  • Shadow IT exists because approved processes are slow.
Yep, this sounds like my team
Automated and Connected
Automated and Connected

You’ve orchestrated some serious flow, but now you’re scrambling for scale.

This is you if:

  • Most standard requests are fully automated end-to-end.
  • Systems integrate seamlessly.
  • You have a self-service portal employees actually use.
  • But you’re still reactive—just faster at it.
Yep, this sounds like my team