ServiceNow Consulting Services for Mid-Sized Enterprises Is Not the Enterprise Build Shrunk Down
An IT director at a 650-person industrial equipment maker sent me a scoping document last month. Forty-two pages. Written by a Big 4 partner she was evaluating. It proposed an eight-month ITSM implementation with a fifteen-person delivery team, a three-tier governance model with a steering committee that met fortnightly, a full CMDB build using Common Service Data Model 5, a Service Portfolio Management module she had never asked for, and a change advisory board structure copied verbatim from the same firm's engagement with a European bank. She asked me one question. "Does this look right for a company our size?" It did not. The document was a Fortune 500 implementation plan with the client name changed. Every mid-market company that has bought servicenow consulting services for mid-sized enterprises from a large SI has seen a version of this document. The plan is not wrong because it is bad. It is wrong because it is not built for a mid-sized enterprise. It is built for a large one, scaled down badly, and priced to keep a fifteen-person team busy.