Independent ITSM Consultancy
For IT Directors, Heads of IT and CIOs at enterprise organisations

Most IT teams think their ITSM is better than it is.

We benchmark enterprise IT service performance independently delivering an honest picture of where you actually stand, with a prioritised roadmap to improve it. No vendor bias. No framework allegiance. Trusted by the Bank of England, Network Rail and more.

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Not sure where you stand?
Free ITSM Maturity Scorecard
Is your ITSM ready for AI?
Free AI Readiness Scorecard
Getting value from your tool?
Free Tool Value Scorecard
200+
Years Combined Experience
100%
Vendor Agnostic
12+
Years in Business
Sample Assessment Output
Anonymised
Global Financial Services · 3,200 Employees
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Critical Gap
No single owner accountable for Incident Management. Handling varies by team, no consistent process or escalation path.
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Strength to Build On
Strong leadership commitment and an established ServiceNow platform the foundation for consistent, measurable improvement.
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Priority Action
Assign practice owners, define shared metrics, and establish a quarterly review rhythm before any tooling changes.
18-Month Improvement Roadmap
Q1–Q2
Fix the Foundations
Define ownership, agree standards
Q3–Q4
Standardise & Enable
Document processes, align tooling
Q5–Q6
Embed & Measure
Train teams, demonstrate uplift
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Trusted by
Bank of England Network Rail Major Financial Services UK Infrastructure Global Investment Banking
Why The ITSM People

Independent expertise.
No strings attached.

No vendor ties. No managed service relationships. No commission arrangements. Just honest, experienced consulting that acts entirely in your interest. Organisations with mature ITSM typically see up to 30% reduction in operational costs and 40% less unplanned downtime. The value of getting this right is well established. The value of getting an independent view of where you actually stand is where we come in.

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Practitioner-led
Senior consultants with 20+ years of real operational experience.
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Fully independent
No vendor relationships. No tool commissions. Only your interests.
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Evidence-based
Every recommendation grounded in real assessment data.
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Tool agnostic
ServiceNow, Jira, Halo, FreshService, BMC, SysAid or anything else. Whatever your enterprise tool, we recommend what is right for you.
What Clients Say

Trusted by IT leaders at complex organisations.

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Their expertise combined with a genuine can-do, positive engagement style was instrumental in establishing our new IT Services.
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John Jessen
Technology Director
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I've worked with the ITSM People twice across two major enterprise organisations. Tim is truly approachable and has always looked after me as a client.
EF
Enrique Fernandez-Pino
Chief Information Officer
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The ITSM People have been integral to many of our client projects as our strategic ITSM partner. Their consultants consistently deliver exceptional results.
DW
Dave Wright
Chief Value Officer
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Is this your IT organisation?

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The same incidents keep coming back. You fix the symptom, not the cause and three weeks later you are dealing with the same thing again.
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You are under pressure to deploy AI but quietly unsure whether your data, processes and knowledge are actually ready to support it.
Check your AI readiness →
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Your ITSM tool cost a lot of money and is being used as a glorified email system. Half its capability has never been switched on.
Check your tool value →
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Your metrics look fine on paper but nobody really trusts them. Reporting is a compliance exercise, not something that drives decisions.
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You know there are gaps. Leadership knows there are gaps. But without an independent view, the same conversations go round in circles.
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You are about to invest in a transformation programme and want to make sure you are fixing the right things in the right order.
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