Odd M. Leonhardsen

6 min

From System of Record, to System of Action, to System of Context

Enterprise systems began by storing the work. Then they began to run it. The era beginning now is about understanding it. The shift to a system of...

8 min

Your platform’s next user is not a person

At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow opened its full system of action to any AI agent, headlessly, through a generally available MCPServer. Twenty years of...

5 min

CSDM is not a CMDB topic. It's AI Readiness.

For years, CSDM lived inside the CMDB conversation, and it was treated the way good infrastructure usually is: clearly important, easy to agree with,...

11 min

Three Forces Made CSDM Non-Optional

Autonomous AI, EU regulation, and ServiceNow's new commercial model have turned the Common Service Data Model (CSDM) from a hygiene project into the...

5 min

ServiceNow Has Outgrown IT Operations

ServiceNow has quietly become the AI platform for enterprise transformation. Most organizations still run it as a ticketing tool under IT Operations,...

4 min

The AI you've bought may be illegal to deploy

The situation More tim e , less m a rgin. On 7 May 2026, EU negotiators reached a provisional agreement — the Digital Omnibus on AI — to postpone the...

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