Hello and welcome to our Touchpoints blog! We are Nils and Julia, two members of the Enterprise Design Services team, and we are writing this blog to discuss recent topics in the fast-paced, changing, and more and more digital world. We interview experts in their field of specialty and want to understand what it takes for businesses to make it in today’s competitive world.
Q: Tell us what your role at KPMG is in 2 sentences?
My name is Kim Casén. I joined KPMG Finland in August 2021 as a senior manager and ServiceNow lead. Before KPMG, I have more than 10 years of experiences working with ServiceNow, both as a ServiceNow practice Lead and a ServiceNow customer within the retail sphere.
Q: ServiceNow, that sure sounds exciting, but for someone who’s never heard of the term how would you explain ServiceNow in a nutshell?
ServiceNow is a cloud platform for digitalization of workflows for different organizations – it’s also known for helping to automate tasks that are often done manually.
Q: Can you give us an example regarding the benefits of KPMG harnessing ServiceNow from the business side, not only IT side?
Most significant difference between the ServiceNow approach from KPMG with other ServiceNow providers’ is that, for instance, within Enterprise Risk Management, there are so many things you need to arrange in your organization before you want to implement a tool like ServiceNow. The technical tool implementation is just a small part of a successful transformation journey, the most challenging part is the organizational change management.
It’s been recognized that organizations that use KPMG Powered Enterprise transformation assets can expect lower risk, higher value, and a thorough implementation that aligns how employees interact with internal organizations, achieve better functional performance and new ways of working.
Q: Did you get any feedback from the client for using ServiceNow in this context?
Customers are rather impressed by our skills, particularly the business skills that come with the KPMG ServiceNow package. Furthermore, we – at KPMG always opt to take the holistic approach when stepping into a ServiceNow transformation project for clients, meaning looking at things from various business aspects, such as change or risk management.
And this is precisely what I find most fascinating about our KPMG’s global capabilities, especially when the conversations about risk management or change management within a ServiceNow project take place, we usually have matching capabilities from our side with the client’s, meaning HR, Risk or Cyber security consulting professionals, to really listen to the client and make the most of the conversations.
