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Like many business leaders, you may be wondering if you’re getting the most out of your technology investments and if there are things you can do to gain efficiency. Many organizations have taken steps toward optimization to reap the rewards of: In fact, 35% of organizations have made significant or very significant progress toward optimizing risk management and cybersecurity, according to a global survey of 900 senior business leaders by ServiceNow and ThoughtLab.

As a former chief experience officer, I’ve seen just how impactful digital transformation can be. When I worked at Under Armour, we focused on our customers’ connected fitness journey, which unlocked new revenue streams and engagement opportunities. Yet, I’ve been around long enough to see my fair share of disappointments and underperforming projects. Any C-level executive will say the same.

In today’s highly competitive and volatile business environment, service outages can result in the loss of customers. Because of those high stakes, it’s imperative that companies take action to avoid outages. But how can you prevent them before they happen? Enter artificial intelligence (AI). AI and machine learning can run in the background to monitor systems and detect anomalies before humans can spot them. ServiceNow Predictive AIOps was designed with this purpose in mind.

Minesh Patel, senior manager of support account management at ServiceNow, and JP Renaud, senior director of support management at ServiceNow, contributed to this blog. As part of our customer service and support team, the ServiceNow support account management (SAM) and customer escalations (CE) teams are committed to averting situations where performance affects customers’ ability to operate their business.

Remember the days when you needed a pocket of change to pay for parking your car? How things have changed! Today, the focus is on smart parking solutions with ticketless entry, automatic license plate recognition, live monitoring of parking space availability, the use of QR codes, UHF windscreen tags, radio frequency identification, and payment cards.

On a video call, a customer asked why I had a stack of boxes behind me. That’s one of the things about Zoom—you get glimpses into other people’s worlds. My world is full of cardboard. I moved to a new home on the East Coast a few months ago, and unpacking is a slow process. The boxes are full of business books. I have a healthy collection, and my latest addition is Think Again by Adam Grant, the top-rated professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

ServiceNow IT support prides itself on providing world-class support services for employees. Because of the company’s hypergrowth, our previous model of 24/7 IT support couldn’t scale. We needed a better way to deal with the exponential increase in support case volume while maintaining a lean IT support team that continues to deliver exceptional support services. Here are four changes we’re undertaking to meet this challenge.

The Now at Work 2021 Digital Experience provided a forum for companies around the world to demonstrate how they’re using the Now Platform, boosted by the Rome release, to bring about digital transformation. ServiceNow helped businesses not only cope with the pandemic, but also build more innovative, nimble organizations for the future.

The ServiceNow product team had a clear goal: Reimagine the employee experience on the Now Platform. That meant designing a solution that would deliver a unified and proactive experience personalized for each user. The team started by talking with customers around the world—of all sizes and across many industries. They also turned to the ServiceNow IT team. IT provided firsthand knowledge of what it means to deliver an exceptional employee experience on the platform.

Hari Vats, senior knowledge manager of global technical support at ServiceNow, co-authored this blog. Who wouldn’t want a faster, more relevant search on their knowledge base? Improving search results is tricky. Organizations can spend a lot of time and money making small improvements to very complex, dynamic environments of information. When ServiceNow acquired an AI search technology company in 2020, we were thrilled to see an immediate return.