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How to Discover & Store AI Assets in ServiceNow
Businesses didn't wake up one day and find themselves surrounded by AI. It crept in. A model here, a pilot there, a proof-of-concept running under someone's desk, or a chatbot built by a curious manager. For many organisations, they are using AI everywhere, but they can't actually see it. We were having this exact same conversation in our internal AI Practice the other day. We know people have started using AI in many creative and impactful ways, but we can't really see it, l

Oliver Nowak
Nov 266 min read


How does Process Mining work in ServiceNow?
Process mining has been sitting in the ServiceNow platform for a while, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing. It has quietly evolved from an optional add-on into one of the most underrated sources of insight available to any organisation running workflows on the platform. As of the Yokohama release, it’s installed by default. Even better: you can start mining your processes without purchasing anything extra, thanks to built-in “projects” that analyse up to 3,600 records fro

Oliver Nowak
Nov 134 min read


How AIOps Works on ServiceNow
What AIOps Is (in Simple Terms) AIOps on ServiceNow isn’t a single product, it’s a maturity level that organisations reach when their IT operations become increasingly intelligent, automated, and proactive. At its core, AIOps helps IT teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues automatically, using data from monitoring tools, contextual service maps, and automation workflows. It evolv es from: Reactive alert management → Predictive insights → Self-diagnosing and self-remediati

Oliver Nowak
Oct 293 min read


What is ServiceNow’s AIx?
ServiceNow have been talking a lot about AIx in the last few weeks, but what actually is it? AIx, or AI Experience, marks a major shift in the platform’s direction, from standard workflow automation to full scale agentic interaction and execution . It's a snapshot into the future. It introduces a unified, conversational interface where users interact with the platform through language, vision, or voice, and where AI agents act autonomously to complete tasks across application

Oliver Nowak
Oct 233 min read


AI Memory in ServiceNow
When it comes to AI, memory is one of the most essential, and least understood, ingredients of intelligent applications. Most people imagine memory as a static database: information goes in, and later, if you’re lucky, it comes back out. But inside ServiceNow, memory isn’t a bolt-on. It’s a dynamic system embedded into the AI framework, enabling agents to learn, recall, and personalise interactions across time. Memory is what transforms a chat into a relationship. The Anatomy

Oliver Nowak
Oct 223 min read


RAG in ServiceNow
When it comes to AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most fundamental building blocks of any intelligent application....

Oliver Nowak
Oct 104 min read


How Kafka Stream Connectors Power ServiceNow & Microsoft Interoperability
As enterprise data becomes increasingly distributed across cloud platforms, systems of action like ServiceNow need real-time access to...

Oliver Nowak
Jun 183 min read


How Gen AI is going to sound very boring, very fast.
If you thought Generative AI has been transformational, you’re going to realise pretty fast in 2025 that it was just the support act. ...

Oliver Nowak
Dec 20, 20243 min read


Developing a Successful Low-Code Development Model
Low-code development isn't a novel idea, it can be traced back to the early days of computing, when programmers began to develop tools...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 19, 20234 min read


Design Thinking Applied to ServiceNow: A Guide
As I have mentioned many times, in today's rapidly changing world, digital transformation is no longer a choice for businesses. It is an...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 14, 20233 min read


Automation with a Purpose
In the ServiceNow space we talk a lot about digital transformation. But why are we interested in digital transformation? We care about...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 12, 20233 min read


How to move from Traditional CMDB to a Digital Service Blueprint
If you were to ask your CEO what their top 5 priorities are, do you think they would name data as one of them? In my experience, some do...

Oliver Nowak
Dec 1, 20224 min read


Why Start Again with ServiceNow?
If I had to choose one word to describe effective service delivery it would be visibility. Can you confidently say you have visibility?...

Oliver Nowak
Oct 12, 20222 min read


The Unique Challenges Facing Retail Operations
There’s still a place for brick-and-mortar stores in our lives but no one can deny that they are facing fiercer competition and a more...

Oliver Nowak
Aug 1, 20224 min read


Boosting IT & Employee Productivity in the Retail Sector
Today’s businesses are full of digital-savvy employees who aren’t just used to using digital services but demand them. As a result,...

Oliver Nowak
Jul 27, 20223 min read


Digitally Transforming Vendor Management
Vendor Management is often not given the air time it deserves. As consumers, we walk into the shop, pick up the product we’re after and...

Oliver Nowak
Jul 24, 20223 min read


How do you manage the Dangers of POS Failure?
In today’s cashless, contact-free society any customer-facing business, be that across retail, leisure or hospitality has traded in their...

Oliver Nowak
Jul 22, 20223 min read


Achieving Operational Efficiency in Retail Stores
Adopting new processes and investing a large amount in technology has often seemed a nice-to-have rather than a must-have, especially...

Oliver Nowak
Jul 19, 20224 min read


What does the Architecture of a Fully Digitally Transformed Financial Services Firm look like?
As a company moves to the cloud it needs to consider three things: Applications, Data and Infrastructure. Organisations want best of...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 29, 20224 min read


Putting Culture at the Centre of Transformation
It is clear that many FSIs want to leverage digital capabilities to become market leaders in customer experience. But how much attention...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 27, 20224 min read


How to Convert your Biggest Threats into your Greatest Opportunities using Digital
Challenges facing Financial Services Organisations The Financial Services sector, like every sector, is at a pivotal point: embracing the...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 25, 20223 min read


5 Traits of a Technology Leader in the Financial Services Sector
1. Business Leader first, Technology Leader second A leader needs to fully understand the wider company vision first before giving...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 22, 20224 min read


Personalising the Financial Services Experience in the Modern World
It's impossible to put my finger on the single cause of the push for digital transformation in the financial services sector. It's a...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 20, 20224 min read


How ServiceNow Secures its Data
The competitive landscape has changed. Today’s financial services organisations are fighting a battle on multiple fronts. Non-traditional...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 19, 20223 min read


More Data, More Digital
Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that the technological singularity, the crucial moment when machines become smarter than humans, will...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 14, 20224 min read


The Role Digital Plays in Achieving Operational Resilience
The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority defines an operationally resilient firm as one that should be able to prevent...

Oliver Nowak
Apr 12, 20222 min read


The Data Reality underlying our Observable Reality
As technology continues to permeate more and more of what we do, more and more of our physical reality is being downloaded into the...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 25, 20223 min read


The Leaders that will define the Digital Age within Utilities
Today, utility leaders are not just business leaders, but they are also technology leaders. Business and technological objectives and...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 23, 20223 min read


The Democratisation of Technology
Today, anywhere we look technology has permeated the way we live our lives. We have seen the full democratisation of technology. In fact,...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 21, 20223 min read


Creating a Digital Transformation Battle Plan
Assess Digital Readiness Business Impact Change Readiness For a business to digitally transform it relies on three components: culture,...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 18, 20224 min read


The Key Challenges facing the Future of Water
The Operational Challenge Every day, across England and Wales, 50 million consumers receive quality drinking water, sanitation, and...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 16, 20223 min read


Current Digital Transformation Trends within the Utilities Sector
Changing Customer Expectations Digital channels are fast becoming the most popular way for consumers to interact with brands. They want...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 14, 20224 min read


Building Momentum with Digital
Adoption of digital transformation in the construction industry is on a very different growth path to that of other similar sectors. For...

Oliver Nowak
Feb 9, 20223 min read


Seeing the Bigger Picture
The engineering and construction (E&C) sector is well-known as being one of the world’s least digitised sectors, but why? Taking a closer...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 26, 20222 min read


The Roots of Industry 4.0
To truly understand the meaning of Industry 4.0, I thought it was important to dig into history for in the words of Terry Pratchett: “If...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 24, 20223 min read


Reinventing Customer Service in the Retail Sector
When the pandemic hit two years ago, the phrase ‘new-normal’ wasn’t far from anyone’s lips. For a while it just seemed like the latest...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 21, 20223 min read


The Future of Store Lifecycle Management
Over the last few decades, the commentary across the retail industry has indicated the demise of brick-and-mortar retail stores. With the...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 19, 20224 min read


The Impact of COVID on the Retail Sector
What is the current state of play? The Covid-19 pandemic has hit each and every one of us hard, that’s undeniable. But the specific...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 17, 20225 min read


3 Strategies for Effective Organisational Change Management in 2022
As companies around the world look to become more agile and shorten development cycles, it has become essential for organisations to...

Oliver Nowak
Jan 7, 20225 min read
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