Odd M. Leonhardsen

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 platform design assumed a human in front of a screen. The next user reads your platform instead of...

5 min

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

Most organizations deferred CSDM because it looked like a data- model project. AI agents change what the model is for, and what a thin one now costs....

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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