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3 ways Deloitte’s next-generation managed services can help drive enterprise value

Generative AI (GenAI) brings forth a competitive reset that’s shaking up some companies. New technology shows promise of huge wins, but this is not achieved by technology alone. Modernising today’s IT function should be more than just updating tech. It’s about shifting from a business service provider to a business value driver by working with knowledgeable practitioners in managed services.

The emergence of GenAI has captured a lot of attention—and elicits a range of emotions, including excitement, fascination and more. But as GenAI gains momentum, there’s a gap in preparedness and confidence. While 79% expect GenAI to transform business in the next three years, only 34% feel highly prepared when it comes to GenAI strategy. Some companies are ready to seize the moment, while others are waiting to see what comes from the GenAI boom. 

But now is the time to translate GenAI capabilities into tangible business opportunities. To implement and scale, stakeholders across lines of business should seek a solid foundation backed by the right people and skills. Then, they can focus on tailoring technology to supercharge operations and benchmarking to monitor and prove their success. Outsourcing operations and unlocking value from next-generation managed services can mitigate some of the most common challenges in today’s enterprises:

Risk

Without visibility and agility, risk can proliferate and increase vulnerabilities across the organisation. Organisations with heavily siloed or difficult-to-pinpoint Datasets can struggle with risk management. But more eyes can spot more threats and advanced AI technology takes that to the next level to increase threat hunting, detection, response and remediation capabilities.

Technical debt

A multitude of single-purpose built tools can make it difficult to manage the efficiency of each solution and, over time, costs can add up. Along with manual work and duplicative Data entry, increased technical debt introduces further opportunities for error. Streamlining tools, uniting platforms and enhancing automation can help to reduce the burden of technical debt on an organisation.

Silos

Silos are an undesired outcome when departments and specialties don’t collaborate or provide visibility across the organisation. When combined with challenging market conditions, the loss of agility can be detrimental. Connecting department-specific tools for customer service, HR, finance or IT can help to unite organisations and enhance visibility.

It’s important for organisations to embed GenAI into their business to realise more efficiencies and advance their business transformation agendas. More efficiencies? More agility? When you add it up, that equals fewer challenges. With the power of ServiceNow GenAI capabilities, Deloitte’s Operate next-generation managed services can help you boost efficiency by up to 50% in aggregate.

“We thought Data structure would be the hardest problem to solve. But that problem tends to solve itself if you can get trust and buy-in from the organisation. We need to become productive thinkers—how do we provide value to the organisation and the people using the capabilities? If you can find something useful for teams—layered on top of leading practices and systems—then, all the sudden, people are more willing to embrace change.”

- Joshua Rucker, Chief Architect of US Cloud Managed Services, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Fuel efficiency and spark innovation with GenAI

Together, Deloitte’s Operate services with ServiceNow can be a force multiplier for embedding the power of GenAI into a business’s DNA. With Deloitte’s robust background and expansive future in developing GenAI solutions for modern managed services, businesses can unlock real-time value and position themselves for what comes next.

Time spent structuring Data, collecting Data points and identifying trends and insights can be time-consuming. One of the first steps for companies needing to enhance service desk operations is to aggregate various sources of IT Service Management and operational Data. By gathering these details together, organisations can analyse a comprehensive Dataset that improves transparency and visibility throughout the enterprise. 

Deloitte’s AscendTM  Analytical Insights Natural Language Processing (NLP), with the ServiceNow platform’s Process Mining and Automation Discovery, works with GenAI accelerators to identify hyperautomation and problem resolution opportunities. With these solutions, organisations can deliver up to an estimated 15% efficiency gain through improved personnel utilisation, process standardisation and ticket reduction. 

In the State of GenAI Q2 report, GenAI is expected to increase the value of certain technology-centred skills. At the top of the list, 70% of respondents see Data analysis as a top tech skill that’s rising in value.  

Addressing user-affecting issues in complex IT environments often requires collaboration from several departments. And current motoring platforms often produce false alerts, making the identification of impactful issues challenging.

But with a virtual engineer by your side, incident pre-cognition enables aggregation from multiple sources, standardises processes and extends shift-left capabilities to increase visibility across your most important systems. Teams can quickly resolve problems with suggested root causes, aggregate knowledge articles and build automation for future consideration.

Unlocking proactive insight enables organisations to maximise available personnel by putting them on higher-value tasks and activities, leading to nearly a 20% efficiency gain with up to an additional 11% efficiency gain by proactively identifying and correlating incidents across the solution stack. 

Responding to service requests requires involving multiple teams and approval processes, complicating workflows and delaying time to value. And simultaneous incidents can create prioritisation misalignments for L1 and L2 engineers, while junior team members rely on guidance from high-cost, experienced senior team members to maintain their productivity.

To simplify this intricate process, a virtual assistant with Deloitte’s customised GenAI solutions and hyperautomation can streamline Data gathering and structuring. Teams can experience a reduction in time and effort of nearly 20%—providing opportunities to move faster, reduce errors and deliver high-quality output. 

Organisations primarily plan to reinvest the savings from GenAI into innovation (45%) and improving operations (43%)—addressing the value equation from both sides.

Transform your enterprise with Deloitte’s Operate services and ServiceNow

If you want to solve the challenges of today’s enterprise—including risk, technical debt and troublesome silos—it’s time to implement the technology of tomorrow. Next-generation managed services, accelerated by a unified system of engagement, can help organisations drive real value from GenAI investments.

When enabled by the right GenAI capabilities and supported by experienced leaders, organisations gain the right mix of tech and team to power the entire enterprise. Deloitte’s Operate next-generation managed services help organisations realise more efficiencies and advance their business transformation agendas, unlocking new business value across the enterprise. 

Meet the author

Sam Pearson

Global
ServiceNow Operate Leader

Sam is a principal with over 25 years of experience in operational, technology, and strategy roles. He has broad cross-industry supply chain experience that includes consumer and industrial products manufacturing, retail, media distribution, agriculture and food processing, oil and gas, and defense. He specializes in leading large, complex, global technology transformations that lower costs and improve service. Sam also specializes in enterprise operations as-a-service and leads Deloitte's ServiceNow Operate services.