All age groups demand speed, transparency, and a personalized approach when it comes to resolving customer issues. But new research from ServiceNow reveals a stark gap between how Australia’s oldest and youngest populations want issues addressed. Tech-savvy millennials want to communicate through chatbots, email, and direct messages. Baby boomers prefer to speak to an operator to resolve a problem. Other generations lie somewhere in between.

Transformation. Everyone’s tossing that word around these days to the point it almost seems meaningless. Yet, it’s not. According to the 2021 EY CEO Imperative Study, nearly two-thirds of CEOs believe technology and digital transformation will have the greatest impact on the future success of their enterprises. In fact, 68% of these CEOs plan to make big-time technology investments throughout 2022.

IT service management (ITSM)—the management and support of IT services—is vital for good customer service. It encompasses problem management, incident management, change and release management, and service-level management. Because it’s an integral part of customer service, it’s important to keep it optimized and streamlined. Here are three ways automation can help with those efforts.

Today’s CIOs are like sports team coaches. It’s not enough for them just to prepare their teams for games and have a decent winning percentage. They’re expected to orchestrate imaginative plays that will make the most of a team’s talent and win championships.

For years, enterprises have defined success by higher earnings, bigger market share, or the launch of a new product or service. Lately, however, success has been redefined to encompass much more. For example, organizations are also being evaluated on the success of their operations. Executive leaders are under pressure to: Operations have always been the lifeblood of the business.

If you’re a banking customer, chances are you’ve used a product created by Intellect Design Arena. The Chennai-based fintech company supports more than 10 million transactions a day across 91 countries, with cloud-native solutions for core banking, transaction, risk, treasury, and insurance. Intellect has doubled its customer base nearly every year.

We’re pleased to announce that ServiceNow has been named on the Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies list for the third year in a row, ranking No. 5 in the Computer Software category. The list recognizes the top-rated large US companies according to executives and directors from the companies, as well as external analysts.

Collaboration apps, such as Microsoft Teams, have become critical during the pandemic because they enable employees to stay connected and engaged while they work. Just how critical? Microsoft reported 270 million Teams users in January 2022, up from 75 million in April 2020, a few weeks into the pandemic, according to ZDNet. Teams and similar apps have proven essential to the remote workplace. ServiceNow is one of the companies benefiting from Teams adoption.

“It was November 5th, 2003. I knew that we had to start a company before I became 50, because a 50-year-old can't start a company. So, at 49—November 24th is my birthday—we started,” says Fred Luddy, ServiceNow founder. He began the company with a single laptop at a desk in his house. Although he founded the company alone, he couldn’t build it alone.

When Fred Luddy founded ServiceNow nearly 20 years ago, he envisioned a company built on two pillars: empathy and optimism. To this day, we approach every challenge with the optimism that we can solve it and the empathy to guide our way. These are amazing times we live in. Yep, I said it: amazing. Sure, we have big challenges, but it’s amazing that things are working, that the world is working. We’re playing a major role in that.