Case Study: Global Insurer
Situation
Xcession working with a leading global (re)insurer, who are part of the global top-10 insurance group operating in the UK, Continental European and Bermudian markets. With a 300-year history and ~1,800 strong team in more than 20 locations worldwide, they deliver a quality service for businesses facing the most complex and demanding risks. They recognised the importance of enhancing their ServiceNow instance and engaged on a program of works with Xcession.
Client Team
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Head of IT Service Delivery
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IT Transformation Lead
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ServiceNow Tooling Lead
Challenge
Their global technology transformation programme required a comprehensive Enterprise Service Management capability. Working with Xcession and ServiceNow, they wanted to offer each business unit a tailored service focused on excellent customer experience whilst remaining highly agile and efficient.

Solution
Fix The Basics – Address fundamental issues with data and configuration.
Improve – Enhance key areas of the toolset that enable efficiencies for End Users and Technical teams alike.
Transform – Introduce appropriate levels of automation and artificial intelligence to drive continual service improvement.
Solution
Fix The Basics – Address fundamental issues with data and configuration.
Improve – Enhance key areas of the toolset that enable efficiencies for End Users and Technical teams alike.
Transform – Introduce appropriate levels of automation and artificial intelligence to drive continual service improvement.
Better Customer Experience
Better Customer Experience

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Increase catalog volume and relevance of catalogue items
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Offer catalog based on legal entity requirements
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Improve minimum data collection to significantly reduce MTTR and improve FTF
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Introduction of new channels of communication (virtual agent)
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Automation first approach to fulfilment
Higher
Productivity
Higher Productivity

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Automated incident routing using AI / ML
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Faster triage with better data collection at first point of contact
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Automated deployment of software
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Easier, more in depth, reporting and analytics
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Fewer change rollbacks and reduction in change related outages
Greater
Agility
Greater Agility

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Onboard and off-board Legal Entities quickly
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Automated infrastructure and asset discovery
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Service mapping and visualisation to support IM, PM, CM and Infrastructure / SecOps
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Support improved processes to increase Change Management velocity
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Support TOM restructure
Not only are Xcession great to work with, but they delivered above and beyond – we’re already seeing significant benefits across our operational activities and the project hasn’t even finished yet!
– IT Transformation Lead
Not only are Xcession great to work with, but they delivered above and beyond – we’re already seeing significant benefits across our operational activities and the project hasn’t even finished yet!
– IT Transformation Lead
Not only are Xcession great to work with, but they delivered above and beyond – we’re already seeing significant benefits across our operational activities and the project hasn’t even finished yet!
– IT Transformation Lead
Outcomes

34% reduction in
manual triage of incidents
34% reduction in manual triage of incidents

81% reduction in time to
resolve all AI routed incidents
81% reduction in time to resolve all AI routed incidents

Overall 24% reduction in
time to resolve incidents
Overall 24% reduction in time to resolve incidents

15% all software requests
now fully automated
15% all software requests now fully automated
