Robin John

Robin John

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  • From Service Builder to Update Set: A Practical Guide for Product Owners

    November 12, 2025
    Uncategorized

    As a Product Owner, introducing new functionalities like Digital Portfolio Management and Service Builder is exciting. These tools empower organizations to manage services and offerings more effectively. However, with innovation comes complexity. Suddenly, you have multiple stakeholders creating services and offerings—many of whom are unfamiliar with the process. Granting direct access to production is risky…

  • The CSDM Puzzle: How to Finally Align Your Stakeholders (Part 1)

    The CSDM Puzzle: How to Finally Align Your Stakeholders (Part 1)

    November 11, 2025
    Service Now

    Ever been in a meeting where everyone talks about “applications,” but they’re all picturing something completely different? One person thinks of the software on their laptop, while another is imagining a massive, deployed system in a data center. It’s frustrating, right? This confusion is a common problem and often leads to a messy CMDB (Configuration…

  • Prepare well and successfully execute your next Service Now Upgrade

    June 1, 2025
    Service Now

    I recently navigated a major ServiceNow “family upgrade” — a journey that took us back to processes designed in 2018 and brought them roaring into the present.

  • What I learnt from LIDL’s SAP implementation failure?

    March 30, 2025
    Self improvement

    Exploring Two Perspectives: A Balanced Approach. I am trying to look at this in two ways: Based on the information from the sources, Lidl could have done several things differently to avoid the SAP implementation failure: In essence, Lidl’s failure can be seen as an attempt to force SAP to conform entirely to their existing…

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