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.
Moving customer support from incident workaround to purpose-built CSM
A UK software company had outgrown using ServiceNow Incidents to manage external customer interactions. Hikon implemented Customer Service Management with proper accounts, contacts and cases — moving from an internal workaround to a purpose-built customer support model.
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.
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.
Is CTI dead? What AI means for the oldest habit in ITSM
CTI was never ITIL. A short history of Category, Type, Item, why category trees failed, and how AI turns classification from an input burden into an output artefact.
The Other Side of ITSM. The One Your Users Actually See.
We talk a lot about the back end of ITSM. But the front end, the portal and the people using it, is where trust is won or lost. A look at ITSM from your end users’ side.
Halo AI for Service Desk Agents
What Halo AI puts in front of the human service desk agent, what it takes to configure, and where it trips people up.
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.
HALO IN 60: Configuring PII Data Flagging in HaloITSM
Seven settings on one HaloITSM screen decide whether PII data flagging actually protects anything: what triggers a scan, which ticket types it covers, and which personal data it looks for.
HALO IN 60: Configuring Tickets in HaloITSM, in three parts
The longest screen in the Tickets module, in three parts. How tickets are logged, who works them and how they close: thirty settings from HaloITSM's Tickets General Settings, with our view on each, and the other 190 covered section by section.
HALO IN 60: Configuring the Self Service Portal in HaloITSM
One screen decides whether your portal needs a login, what greets users on the home screen and how much of their own ticket they can see. Ten settings from HaloITSM's Self Service Portal configuration, with our view on each.
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