Using Next Experience for Demand Management

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    Summary of Using Next Experience for Demand Management

    Next Experience for Demand Management enables ServiceNow customers to efficiently plan and manage demands through an end-to-end process. It supports capturing business needs, applying governance, collaborating, tracking financials, and advancing demands into delivery, all within a structured and user-friendly environment.

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    Key Features

    • Demand Intake and Governance: Create new demands and initiate structured intake workflows. Define governance processes using low-code/no-code playbooks for flexible demand management.
    • Filtering and Sorting: Use advanced filters to locate specific demands by status, dates, or project type, improving demand visibility and prioritization.
    • Task Management: Add and manage tasks related to demand progression including time card submissions, ensuring work readiness for approvals and delivery.
    • Collaboration: Co-author specifications, notes, and decisions directly within demand records using integrated Docs for seamless teamwork.
    • Risk, Issue, and Decision Tracking: Maintain traceability by associating RIDAC records to demands, helping control and mitigate risks effectively.
    • Financial Management: Plan and control demand financials by creating cost plans, labor costs, expense lines, and financial baselines to track variances over time.
    • Benefit Planning: Quantify expected value by managing monetary and non-monetary benefit plans linked to demands, supporting better business case evaluation.
    • Capacity Alignment: Manage resource assignments and capacity to ensure demand scope aligns with available work timelines.
    • Demand Progression: Advance qualified demands into downstream delivery entities such as projects, enhancements, and changes, streamlining execution.
    • AI Integration and Assistance: Utilize Now Assist to summarize and refine demand records and directly associate AI systems with demands for enhanced insights and automation.

    Practical Benefits

    ServiceNow customers can expect a comprehensive and structured environment for managing demands, from initial intake through delivery preparation. The platform’s capabilities in governance, collaboration, financial tracking, and AI integration facilitate better decision-making, improved transparency, and streamlined workflows. This ultimately helps organizations prioritize and execute demands with greater accuracy and control.

    Next Experience for Demand Management enables end-to-end planning and management of demands.

    Overview of demand tasks

    Table 1. Next Experience for Demand Management tasks
    Task Feature
    Capture a new business need and kick off structured governance from intake. Create a demand and start the intake flow. For more information, see Create a demand.
    Use advanced filtering options to find specific demands based on criteria such as status, start and end dates, and project type. Filter and sort demands. For more information, see Demands list view.
    Define different governance processes for demands. Use playbooks for demand governance processes with low-code or no-code changes. For more information, see Use Playbooks in Next Experience for Demand Management.
    Add and manage work needed to progress a demand to approval or delivery readiness. Create and manage demand tasks including time card submission. For more information, see Create and manage demand tasks.
    Collaborate on specifications, notes, and decisions within the demand record. Use Docs to co-author content directly from the demand. For more information, see Collaborate with docs in Next Experience for Demand Management.
    Track risks, issues, and decisions to maintain traceability and control. Add or associate RIDAC records with the demand. For more information, see Add and manage RIDAC records.
    Plan and control financials associated with a demand. Create cost plans, generate labor costs, and manage expense lines. For more information, see Managing financials for demands.
    Create financial baselines to track variance over time. Create demand baselines to track the demand finances. For more information, see Create financial baselines.
    Quantify expected value for business cases. Create and manage monetary and non-monetary benefit plans for a demand and associate them to each other. For more information, see Create and manage benefit plans.
    Align work capacity with demand scope and timelines. Create and manage capacity for a demand. For more information, see Create and manage resource assignments.
    Progress qualified demands into downstream delivery entities. Create entities from a demand such as projects, enhancements, and changes. For more information, see Create an entity from a demand.
    Summarize demands and refine them using Now Assist. Summarize a demand record from its details and refine the text field values. For more information, see Now Assist skills in Next Experience for Demand Management.
    Link AI systems to a demand directly from Next Experience for Demand Management. Associate AI systems with a demand. For more information, see Create AI systems.