Enterprise Agility ServiceNow SPM Podcast

In this episode of the Enterprise Agility Podcast, Fred Champlain and Richard Knaster wrap up their discussion of the rapid evolution of AI. This evolution is reshaping business agility and competitiveness, with generative AI optimizing operations and enhancing customer experiences through faster decision-making and deeper insights into customer needs. Maintaining core business fundamentals while experimenting with AI and adopting hypothesis-driven strategies is key to staying competitive, allowing AI to handle routine tasks so humans can focus on creativity and innovation. Listen now to learn more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the ServiceNow Enterprise Agility Podcast, host Fred Champlain and Richard Knaster continue their conversation on the pressures and opportunities that GenAI and agentic AI bring to enterprises. Organizations face challenges in managing vast data and must adopt responsible AI practices to avoid issues like AI "hallucinations." Ensuring curated, trustworthy models, continuous training, and data quality is essential for creating valuable innovations while minimizing legal risks from inaccurate AI outputs. Join us to gain valuable perspectives on leveraging AI responsibly and effectively in your organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the ServiceNow Enterprise Agility Podcast, host Fred Champlain, ServiceNow Agile Evangelist, talks with Richard Knaster, a SAFe Fellow and author of The Lean Agile Way, about AI’s transformative impact on business agility. Richard highlights AI’s rapid integration into existing solutions, offering cost savings and enhanced agility. He discusses AI’s ability to detect weak signals from customer interactions, leading to better insights and improved customer service through automation. This discussion offers valuable insights for executives navigating AI’s role in business transformation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and James Ramsay as they explore how strategic portfolio management (SPM) and enterprise architecture (EA) are crucial in successfully implementing AI across an organization. By prioritizing AI use cases that deliver the most business value and understanding their impact on the technology landscape, companies can mitigate risks and enhance compliance. This discussion sheds light on the importance of modeling AI integrations and information flows, enabling businesses to make informed, risk-aware decisions as they adopt AI technologies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and James Ramsay as they dive into how enterprise architecture (EA) is essential for driving successful AI transformations. By actively integrating EA with strategic portfolio management (SPM), organizations can align AI initiatives with business objectives, moving from experimentation to impactful implementation. This discussion highlights the importance of strategic planning and prioritization in unlocking AI's full potential and overcoming challenges in digital transformation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Mark Castoe as they break down the various steps that successful organizations take to technological maturity. Synthesizing the learnings and understandings of the customer journeys you are supporting is a critically important part of any strategy. Application portfolio management is the gathering point to bring together asset management, IT service management and many other tools to uplevel demands and planning. Listen now to hear how you can up level your enterprise capabilities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Mark Castoe as they tackle governance and risk in the context of technical debt. There will always be technical debt, due to the fact that it is part of the technology landscape. Managing this debt as a business risk is where organizations can maintain business continuity and ensure continuous visibility. Listen now, and check out Fred's recent blog, " Technical Debt: A Hidden Blocker to Business Transformation." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Mark Castoe as they take a look at the different lenses of technical debt, and how application portfolio management plays a crucial part in addressing this complex enterprise issue. Do you know how your information architecture is structured? Having a clear model to understand and manage your hardware and software technical components is a key step towards organizational success. Press play now to get insights from the ServiceNow practitioners. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they break down how technical debt affects your business, and what to look for in remediation. Business initiatives already walk a tenuous line in ensuring on-time delivery to meet strategic objectives. It's important to maintain the flow of value for customers, and remain flexible for decisions as determined by the market. Listen now to get the inside scoop on technical debt strategies from the experts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they discuss the various steps and methods organizations can take to manage their technical debt. How do you discover and find your technical debt? Whether it's by using Application Portfolio Management or simply looking for the integration points, it's important to note that technical debt is a dynamic concept. Listen now to learn about how you can take a holistic look at your risks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they discuss what it means to be in technical debt. Like any debt, technical debt is only a problem if it isn’t managed and if it is taken on without the ability or will to pay it back. If the debt isn’t quantified, or tracked, and the cost of "repayment" is under-estimated, the longer and more expensive it becomes to unwind the debt. Listen now to hear from the experts about what technical debt can mean for your organization. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they discuss the most effective solutions and strategies for mapping and discovery of value streams in an organization. Listen now to get the inside track on how your organization can best utilize ServiceNow for Value Stream Management. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they dive into how organizations can actually implement business focused value streams. While talking value stream may come naturally for most leaders, walking the walk is often harder, as reimagining your business is no small feat. You must asses your organization and find where there opportunities for improvement, sort out business processes, and many other steps. Often through this process you may find organizational friction or conflict of ownership Listen now to hear what surprises to be on the look out for when getting ready to take the plunge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they break down the misconceptions and provide light around value stream management. Many people think value stream starts and ends with development, but what about the more important aspects: the business architecture value stream. At the end of the day businesses whether they are product or service focused run along value streams. By going through the discovery process, value stream management optimization brings clarity to the broader organization. Listen now to hear from our experts about how better understanding value stream management can provide enterprise-wide benefit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Sankhadeep Dhar and Andy Jordan as they take a look at enterprise Gen AI trends and look forward with Servicenow. From drafting release notes to helping developers create code more quickly and efficiently, ServiceNow is bringing to life the tools necessary take full advantage of Gen AI. Product Managers can even get succinct product feedback summarization without leaving the tools they use every day. Listen now to hear more about specific ServiceNow Gen AI features and how every persona can benefit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Sankhadeep Dhar and Andy Jordan as they recap our last podcast, and then dive into how ServiceNow is helping organizations execute their AI strategy. Analysts have stated that 2023 was the year of Gen AI experimentation. Now, 2024 is when companies are putting AI to production and everyone is looking beyond the hype. Clearly, technology and business leaders have a critical role to play here, so how can you become a first mover and ensure that you can execute your strategy and bring it to life? Join us now to find out how ServiceNow can help you execute for success. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Sankhadeep Dhar and Andy Jordan as they discuss the current state of Gen AI in enterprises, and how they are adopting and/or responding to this technology. With Gen AI being such a disruptive and groundbreaking technology, wading through what is fact and what is fiction can often seem a tall task. Everyone knows that this technology will effect the work being done, but leaders should really be measured in creating the strategy behind the implementation. In order to not miss out on the most relevant use cases, thinking about the outcomes before putting Gen AI in place can be a critical step to success. Join us now to find out what our experts are hearing from industry leaders in this fast-changing landscape of Gen AI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as they hypothesize on what we will see happen to hybrid work in the years ahead. Measuring performance through OKRs and value measurement has become an important part of team success. A focus on value delivery is also the driver behind hybrid adoption – moving away from standard methods that make it easy to measure tactical execution metrics (and hard to measure anything else), in favor of adaptive approaches that better align with optimized ability to achieve business benefits. Listen now to find out what topics are top of mind for our experts as they look forward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Fred Champlain and Andy Jordan as we discuss the changing landscape of hybrid work, and what our experts are seeing across the industry. It’s no wonder that hybrid is becoming more popular. In the recently concluded ServiceNow World of Work survey, 51% of respondents said that they felt it was the most effective approach to work delivery, up from 46% the previous year. But there are still barriers to its adoption, largely around the inability of organizations to track and manage work in a hybrid fashion. Listen now to learn more about how teams are shifting in response to evolving environment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Jim Tisch and Andy Jordan as we discuss Hybrid work, an approach to delivering work that combines elements of both traditional and agile methodologies. Today, aligning your digital strategy with business objectives to boost efficiency and innovation in hybrid project delivery is critical. Adopting a hybrid project delivery model can often elevate organizational performance and agility. Listen now to learn more, and be sure to sign up for our upcoming webinar, "Elevate your digital strategy with ServiceNow SPM and hybrid project delivery," on Tuesday, March 26 from 8-9 AM PT, 11AM-12PM ET. You'll hear first-hand from industry leaders about their journeys in leveraging ServiceNow SPM to foster an environment of continuous improvement and strategic agility. We’ll also recap the results of our 2nd Annual World of Work Global Survey, which showed that high performers are more likely to focus on strategic planning and resource planning, with more than half (51%) of respondents believing hybrid is the most effective approach to delivering work. Register now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.