Strategic program form

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    Summary of Strategic program form

    The Strategic program form in Strategic Planning enables ServiceNow customers to create or edit the details of a Strategic Program. It provides a comprehensive view of the program’s attributes, including descriptive information, timelines, priorities, business context, financials, and progress tracking. This form consolidates critical data to facilitate effective strategic management and decision-making.

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    Key Features

    • Basic Details: Capture the program’s name, detailed description (with optional refinement using Now Assist for SPM), current state, associated initiative, assigned owner, percent complete, and MoSCoW priority to indicate importance.
    • Timeline and Priority: Define approved and actual start/end dates along with the program’s priority level.
    • Business Context: Specify related business capabilities, primary and impacted business applications to understand the program’s organizational influence.
    • Business Case: Document the program overview, background, limitations, planned approach, and expected business benefits to support justification and alignment.
    • Financials: Track planned and actual financial metrics including costs (capital and operational expenditure), benefits, and ROI to monitor investment and outcomes effectively.
    • Work Notes: Maintain ongoing updates and discussions to ensure transparent progress communication.
    • Related Tasks: Facilitate creation and prioritization of planning items directly from roadmap views to streamline strategic planning workflows.

    Key Outcomes

    By using the Strategic program form, ServiceNow customers can centrally manage all vital aspects of their strategic programs. This leads to improved visibility into program status, alignment with organizational priorities, enhanced financial oversight, and better coordination of related initiatives and business applications. Ultimately, it supports informed decision-making and more effective execution of strategic objectives.

    Learn about the fields of the Strategic program form. Use this form to create or edit the details of a Strategic Program in Strategic Planning.

    These fields are displayed on the full details page of the strategic program.
    Table 1. Strategic program form
    Field Description
    Name Brief description of the strategic program.
    Description Detailed information of the strategic program.

    You can refine strategic program description using the Refine records skill, if the Now Assist for SPM application is installed.
    State Current working state of the strategic program.
    Initiative Initiative that this strategic program is associated to.
    Owner User assigned to this strategic program.
    Percent complete Percentage of work completed for this strategic program.
    MoSCoW Priority of this strategic program based on its importance. The available options are:
    • 1 - Must have
    • 2 - Should have
    • 3 - Could have
    • 4 - Won’t have
    Work notes Notes to capture the updates and discussions on the strategic program as the work progresses.
    Table 2. Details section of the Strategic program form
    Field Description
    Approved start date Approved start date for this strategic program.
    Approved end date Approved end date for this strategic program.
    Actual start date Actual date on which the work for this strategic program has started.
    Actual end date Actual date on which the work for this strategic program is complete.
    Priority Priority of this strategic program.
    Business capabilities Business capabilities of this strategic program.
    Business application Business application that this strategic program is related to.
    Other impacted business applications Business applications that this strategic program has an impact on.
    Table 3. Business case section of the Strategic program form
    Field Description
    Overview Business case overview of this strategic program.
    Background Background for this strategic program.
    Limitations Applicable limitations to this strategic program.
    Approach Planned approach to work on this strategic program.
    Benefits Business benefit from this strategic program.
    Table 4. Financials section of the Strategic program formIn this section, capture financial details for this item such as cost, CapEx, OpEx, benefit, ROI, and other estimates.
    Field Description
    Planned cost Planned cost to take up this strategic program.
    Planned capEx Planned capital expenditure for this strategic program.
    Planned opEx Planned operational expenditure for this strategic program.
    Planned benefit Planned benefit from this strategic program.
    Actual benefit Actual benefit achieved from this strategic program.
    Actual cost Actual cost on this strategic program.
    Actual capEx Actual value of capital expenditure for this strategic program.
    Actual opEx Actual value of operational expenditure for this strategic program.
    Planned ROI Planned return of investment for this strategic program.