Consulting & advisory

ITSM and service delivery consulting

I help organisations improve the way technology operations work — bringing structure to service delivery, major incidents, ITSM processes and cross-functional operations.

I work with IT leaders whose services are technically supported but operationally unpredictable: incidents recur, ownership is unclear, escalation stalls, and processes create work rather than remove it. Engagements start with how operations actually behave under pressure, not with a framework.

Engagements

Where I am usually brought in

Each engagement starts with what is actually happening in operations, then changes the structure, governance or process behind it.

Service delivery structure and governance

Service performance is reported, but nobody can say clearly who owns what, where delivery is slipping, or why the same issues keep reaching the business.

What the engagement covers

  • Operating model, ownership and accountability across teams and vendors
  • Service review, reporting and governance forums that drive decisions
  • Escalation paths that work when they are actually needed
  • Vendor performance transparency against the intended service outcomes

A delivery structure where ownership is explicit, performance is visible, and governance conversations move from opinion toward evidence.

Major incident management and command structure

When a business-critical service fails, coordination is improvised — technical teams work in parallel, stakeholders chase updates, and restoration takes longer than the fault itself warrants.

What the engagement covers

  • Major incident command roles, triggers and severity definitions
  • Technical coordination across multiple teams, vendors and time zones
  • Stakeholder and executive communication during live incidents
  • Post-incident review that changes something, rather than closing a record

Faster, calmer restoration, with a repeatable command structure the organisation can rely on instead of rediscovering under pressure.

ITSM process design and tooling alignment

The process exists on paper and in the tool, but it does not match how work is really done — so teams work around it and the data stops reflecting reality.

What the engagement covers

  • Incident, problem, change and request process review and simplification
  • ServiceNow and ITSM tooling alignment to the way teams actually operate
  • Knowledge, documentation and operational readiness
  • Automation of repetitive work using ServiceNow, APIs, Power Automate and AI-enabled capabilities

Processes that help teams restore services faster and prevent recurrence, with tooling and data that people trust enough to use.

Cross-functional operations and transformation

Improvement work spans several teams, vendors and technologies at once, and progress stalls wherever the boundaries between them sit.

What the engagement covers

  • Change governance, implementation readiness and risk coordination
  • Problem management and recurring-incident reduction programmes
  • Operational data and analytics to prioritise where effort pays back
  • Standardising successful improvements into normal operations

Stability that holds after the programme ends, because improvements are embedded in governance, knowledge and day-to-day practice.

How I work

  1. 01

    Stabilise

    Restore the service and contain the business impact.

  2. 02

    Understand

    Establish what happened, who is affected, what is known and what remains uncertain.

  3. 03

    Diagnose

    Look beyond the immediate symptom and identify the underlying technical, process or ownership issue.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Change the process, governance, technology or way of working that contributed to the problem.

  5. 05

    Measure

    Use operational data to determine whether the change actually improved the outcome.

  6. 06

    Standardise

    Make successful improvements part of normal operations through documentation, automation, knowledge and governance.

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Tell me how your operations are behaving today

A short conversation is usually enough to work out whether the problem is structure, process, ownership or tooling.

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