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Runbook Management for planned change

Plan, prepare and execute complex, high-stakes cutovers with confidence.

Business-critical cutovers still depend on spreadsheets, documents and disconnected teams.

Runbook Management brings the plan, readiness, live execution and evidence together in one governed application experience - helping Programme Directors build trusted plans, prove Cutover Readiness and stay in control when the change goes live.

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Build new capabilities

Across the full cutover management lifecycle

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Build trusted cutover plans

  • Model complex cutover plans.
  • Coordinate planning across teams.
  • Understand the impact of dependencies.
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Prove readiness

  • Assess Cutover Readiness.
  • Check planning completeness.
  • Build the evidence needed for confident Go / No-Go decisions.
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Stay in control

  • Coordinate live execution.
  • Track progress in real time.
  • Surface issues and understand their impact on the cutover.
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Learn and improve

  • Capture evidence throughout the cutover lifecycle.
  • Learn from every cutover.
  • Build the evidence needed to improve every future cutover.
When the consequences matter

Business-critical change has outgrown the spreadsheet runbook.

Major cutovers, migrations and transformation go-lives are too large, too complex and too important to depend on spreadsheets, documents and manually coordinated teams.

In Financial Services, the consequences of getting technology execution wrong can extend well beyond the programme itself - affecting critical services, customers, business performance and regulatory obligations.

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When the consequences are material, the way you plan, prepare and run high-stakes cutovers needs to match the importance of the event.

Financial

Delay, remediation, programme overrun and lost business benefit.

Operational

Service disruption, instability and failed go-live transition.

Reputational

Loss of confidence among customers, executives, partners and the market.

Regulatory

Weak readiness evidence, unclear decisions and increased scrutiny & penalties.

It is time to move beyond spreadsheet runbooks and manage business-critical change with the control, evidence and visibility it demands.

Time to modernise.

The primary cause of technology outages continues to be poorly planned and executed changes.

As the impact grows more severe, expectations from Customers, Shareholders, and Regulators for improved change outcomes are rising.

Challenges across the cutover management lifecycle

Business-critical cutovers are still planned across spreadsheets, documents and disconnected teams.

Programme leaders struggle to build trusted cutover plans, prove Cutover Readiness, stay in control during execution and improve the next cutover.

01 Plan

Can I trust the plan?
Building trusted cutover plans is difficult.

Cutover plans are often spread across multiple spreadsheets and documents, making ownership, dependencies, sequencing and change control difficult to manage.

02 Prepare

Are we demonstrably ready?
Leadership lacks objective Cutover Readiness.

Reviews and rehearsals are often inconsistent, making readiness difficult to prove and Go / No-Go decisions harder to support.

03 Run

Are we still in control?
Live cutovers are very hard to control.

Once execution starts, leaders need a shared view of progress, delays, issues and risks across every participating team.

04 Improve

Can we do better next time?
Lessons rarely improve the next cutover.

Operational evidence and lessons learned are often lost, causing teams to repeat avoidable problems in future change events.

We have used the original ICEFLO solution for almost a decade and it has transformed our cutover and DR experience. The new Runbook Management solution, delivered on the ServiceNow® platform, makes strategic sense, adds powerful functionality, eases wide-scale adoption and amplifies the benefits to our organisation.

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Head of Service Delivery
Global Bank

Let's talk

We'd love to have a discussion with you about Runbook Management.

  1. We start by listening, asking you to describe your role, goals and challenges
  2. We ask a few questions about how you do things today
  3. We then show you the basics of Runbook Management
  4. We answer any questions you might have
  5. We explore if and how we can help and agree any next steps

Share your details and we'll be in touch to arrange a time.