Insights

Thinking, guides and real delivery stories.

Practical writing on service management — what works, what doesn't, and what we've learned delivering ServiceNow and Halo for teams like yours.

Use Case
ServiceNow

Migrating a legacy ITSM platform to ServiceNow at a global insurer

A global insurer needed to retire its legacy i3S platform and establish ServiceNow as its single ITSM and CMDB system. Hikon delivered automated discovery across fifteen global data centres, a CSDM-aligned CMDB, full data cleansing, and migration of core ITSM processes.

September 2018
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Use Case
ServiceNow

Connecting service desks across organisational boundaries: eBonding for a managed network provider

A UK managed network services provider needed automated ticket exchange with multiple partners. Hikon delivered a series of bi-directional eBonding integrations that removed manual re-keying and kept incidents synchronised across organisational boundaries.

March 2021
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Use Case
ServiceNow

From legacy desk to modern ServiceNow platform: a UK financial services firm

A UK financial services firm replaced a legacy service desk with a full ServiceNow implementation: branded portal, structured catalogue, ADFS single sign-on and automated incident creation from monitoring.

July 2023
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Article
ServiceNow

Why ServiceNow implementations fail — and what structured delivery looks like

The platform is rarely the problem. Five failure patterns we've seen across 275+ projects — and the delivery discipline that prevents every one of them.

June 2026
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Article
General

Five signs your IT team has outgrown its tooling

Workarounds, invisible workload, painful audits — the quiet signals that your service tooling is now costing more than it saves, and what to do without overcorrecting.

May 2026
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

April 2024
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

June 2020
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

February 2025
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