I’ve always been an advocate for working from home. While some would say working from home is rarely a good idea, decades of personal experience have proven otherwise. For one of those decades, my husband and I ran a successful marketing consulting company. Our work was done solely from our home office, all while raising five children. We started our days early before the kids woke up, and when they left for school, we worked feverishly until their return.

Incident and Problem Management are two very different issues in IT service management that are unfortunately often used interchangeably. On the surface, it might just seem like a matter of terminology. But, what if you get to know that one is a small hiccup and the other could dent your entire quarterly or annual results?

What have you done for me lately? For many in IT, the feeling that you’re only noticed when something breaks is ever-present. Thanklessness is hard enough to cope with. Couple that with a recent survey suggesting 84% of IT workers believe their jobs will get harder over the next three years, and two options come to mind: run screaming into another career, or prepare for burnout.

ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company that makes work, work better for people, today released ServiceNow Safe Workplace, a four-app suite and dashboard designed to help companies manage the essential steps for returning employees to the workplace and support everyone’s health and safety. Immediately available, the Safe Workplace app suite is powered by the Now Platform.

Remote workforces are becoming the new normal. What could be achieved earlier with a simple visit to your colleague’s desk will now require you to communicate flawlessly across miles. ITSM tools that were earlier used only when systems had issues are now being used to make delivery of different business services easier. Quite naturally, not all organizations are prepared for this ‘new normal’.

Worldwide there are 5 billion searches a day, of which Google processes 3.5 billion, or 40,000 per second. More than half of web searches now come from a mobile phone, and this trend is not limited to consumers; businesses are also being impacted. ServiceNow customers, partners, and employees are searching for relevant information, both on their desktops and on mobile devices, to self-solve their own issues.

Week 2 at Knowledge 2020 covered a lot of ground—from Marcus Torres’ CreatorCon keynote to eye-opening sessions from customers, including Chevron (with an ITSM turnaround tale) and Under Armour (with a PPM success story). Here are just a handful of the week’s highlights.