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Practical writing on service management — what works, what doesn't, and what we've learned delivering ServiceNow and Halo for teams like yours.
Don't Let Summer Break Your Approval Process
Halo's Automatic Approval Delegation feature keeps your approval workflows moving while your team is on holiday — no manual workarounds, no blocked queues.
From Search Engine to Problem Solver: Getting More from Your Service Desk Agents
Most service desk agents spend their day looking things up and bridging systems by hand. Here is how to turn them into problem solvers with knowledge in the ticket, automatic context, automation and problem management, using Halo.
Your Service Desk Agent Is Not a Search Engine. Stop Treating Them Like One.
Too many service desks run on agents who spend their day looking things up instead of solving problems. Here is how a well-built Halo implementation changes that, with practical ways to give end users faster answers and give agents real problem-solving power.
The Hikon method: from first conversation to go live
What does a successful implementation actually look like? The Hikon method takes it from first conversation to go live in seven stages, with a deliberate feedback loop before anyone has to depend on it.
Getting HaloITSM live in weeks: our implementation approach
Hikon delivers HaloITSM implementations in weeks, not months. See our proven onboarding process, milestone breakdown, and go-live checklist — trusted by UK organisations.
Structured client onboarding and deployment through ServiceNow
A software company needed to bring structure to the way it onboarded and deployed its platform for customers. Hikon built a ServiceNow capability using client configuration records, guided order guides and service level definitions to make delivery consistent, trackable and measurable.
A native ServiceNow application for Agile delivery management
Mars is a ServiceNow scoped application built to manage Agile delivery natively on the platform — sprints, use cases, stories, defects and tasks in one place, alongside the ServiceNow work being delivered, with no separate tracking tool required.
Productising ServiceNow: a repeatable delivery model for faster, lower-risk implementations
Working with a technology services business, Hikon helped shape a ServiceNow-as-a-Service delivery model: a repeatable core implementation and delivery strategy that gets customers to a best-practice minimum viable platform fast, with a clear path to expand.
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