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Contents
1. Introduction 4
1.1 Additional commentary and reviews 5
1.2 About Scopism 6
1.3 About Kinetic IT 6
2 Demographics 7
2.1 Countries 9
2.2 Gender breakdown 10
2.3 Age 11
2.4 Salaries and compensation 12
2.5 Industry analysis 13
2.6 Organization size 14
2.7 Job titles 15
2.8 Types of responding organizations 16
6 Closing Comments 66
This whitepaper presents the results from the fifth annual SIAM survey, carried out in
2022. The survey results are based on the responses from 200+ people from 31 countries,
reflecting the global nature of the SIAM community. We would like to thank everyone
who responded to the survey for their input, and for helping us to build a picture of SIAM
maturity and adoption.
Scopism is grateful to Kinetic IT for generously sponsoring the survey and whitepaper and
providing this valuable information to SIAM practitioners.
The SIAM survey takes place annually, helping to build a picture of the growth of SIAM and
how it is evolving. This whitepaper presents the survey results and additional analysis and
commentary. It is broken down into four sections:
Responses from organizations who are not using SIAM, but plan to use it –
including the benefits they expect to achieve, how long they expect the SIAM
transition to take, and the challenges they believe they will face
Responses from organizations who are using SIAM – including how long
it took them to adopt SIAM, the type of service integrator structure they
adopted, and the benefits they have realized
Some survey respondents had not implemented and had no plans to implement
SIAM. Their responses are not analyzed in detail in the whitepaper.
Throughout the survey we have included some commentary from SIAM industry
practitioners and experts. We are very grateful for their input.
Helen Nunn
Service Management
Consultant and Advisor
Mandy Stupak
Product Owner – Service
Integration and Management,
Qantas Group
Simon Dorst
Chetan Vikas
Manager, Service Integration,
Principal Consultant, SIAM &
Kinetic IT Pty
Process Consulting, Infosys Ltd
Scopism is grateful to Kinetic IT for generously sponsoring this whitepaper. The SIAM survey is
repeated each year to build a complete picture of global SIAM adoption and trends.
Scopism was founded in 2016 to help IT management professionals keep on top of new trends and
maintain their capabilities. IT management practices are evolving fast, so IT management and service
management professionals need to move fast too. Scopism provides:
Content – articles, case studies and information to keep you informed, including the SIAM
Foundation and Professional Body of Knowledge, available as free downloads on our website
Virtual consultancy – our team of experts are there to support you in your IT management, digital
transformation and SIAM initiatives
Events – online and physical events let you network with other professionals and share your
experiences
Training programs – working with our exam partners we create training at the leading edge of IT
management practices
We partner with our customers, playing a vital role in solving complex everyday problems and, in
the SIAM space, we support customers to demystify their IT environments across multiple service
providers. Our SIAM specialists are committed to delivering genuine success, integrating systems,
processes and people within each customers’ unique ecosystem. Delivering fit-for-purpose solutions,
award-winning services and consistently high end-user satisfaction, Kinetic IT is well-regarded as a
trusted provider across Australia. We’re proud to sponsor the 2022 Global SIAM survey, partnering with
Scopism to deliver this year’s whitepaper.
In this section of the survey we analyze information about the people and
organizations who responded. This section provides information about SIAM
as a career and a methodology, and how it is maturing around the world.
Our questions examine areas including location, salary, type and size of
organization and job titles.
SALARY
GENDER COUNTRY
DIRECTOR
MANAGER
CONSULTANT
SIZE OF
ORGANIZATION
31 countries responded to the survey. The top 10 responding countries are shown below.
The UK, Australia and India dominate the results as they did in 2021, perhaps reflecting global centers for
SIAM consumption and provision.
TOP 10 COUNTRIES:
3% DENMARK
4%
FINLAND
7%
NETHERLANDS
2%JAPAN
24% INDIA
16%
UNITED
KINGDOM
3% 6%
GERMANY
2%
AUSTRIA
USA
The gender breakdown responses (as in previous years) show a much higher percentage of male
practitioners in the SIAM field. Other survey questions showed that SIAM is still being applied mainly
to IT services; the SIAM gender gap could well reflect a gender gap in the broader IT industry.
3%
25%
MALE
FEMALE
PREFER NOT TO SAY
PREFER TO SELF-DESCRIBE
70%
For the fourth consecutive year, the 31-45 and 45-60 age groups dominate the responses. The age of
SIAM practitioners may be linked to the relative seniority of these roles based on the job titles listed in
section 2.7. In 2022, the 46-60 age group has the highest number of respondents. In 2021, the 31-45 age
group was higher.
5%
UNDER 30
39%31-45
43%45-60
9% 61+
4% PREFER
NOT TO SAY
Based on the responses and previous surveys, SIAM continues to be a potentially well-compensated
career. For the second year in a row, 36% of the respondents earn a salary of more than $80,000 USD. The
compensation levels suggest that SIAM roles are relatively senior roles in organizations using SIAM or
selling SIAM solutions and consultancy; this is also reflected in the job titles supplied by respondents in
section 2.7.
In 2021, 10% of SIAM practitioners earned under $20,000. The figure this year is less, perhaps indicating a
lack of junior roles for people looking to begin a career in this field.
35%
22%
14%
5% 4% 6% 6% 8%
Under $20,001 - $30,001 - $40,001 - $60,001 - $80,001 - Over Prefer not
$20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $100,000 to say
20 industry types responded to the survey. 49% described their industry as IT, a slight drop
IT CONSULTING
MANAGED
SERVICES
49% 15% 6%
5+95K 4+96K
3% EDUCATION/OTHER
MANUFACTURING/
RETAIL / BANKING/
GOVERNMENT FINANCE/ACCOUNTING
HEALTHCARE /
2%
5% 4% TRANSPORTATION
49%
of respondents described
their industry as ‘IT’.
Organization size was analyzed by looking at the number of employees. 73% of the responding
organizations have more than 1001 employees (very similar to the 71% reported in 2021).
SIAM is a management methodology that is well-suited to larger organizations. There are also many large
organizations which sell SIAM consultancy and provide service integration and staff augmentation services.
501-1000 1001+
7% 73%
The most common job titles for respondents are shown in the following infographics. There is a large
variety in the job title responses, suggesting there is no common career path or set of job titles for SIAM
practitioners. This has not changed in the five years that we have been carrying out the SIAM survey.
‘Consultant’ and ‘Manager’ remain the most common responses.
The 25% who responded ‘Other’ (up from 13% in 2021) had job titles including service management
specialist, senior advisor, change manager, C-level, Head of SIAM, Process Manager, Senior Manager, SIAM
Lead, SIAM Presales, Service Integration Manager and Marketing Executive.
6% 6% 4% 4% 2%
PROGRAM/ BUSINESS
BUSINESS C LEVEL HEAD OF IT
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
CONSULTANT MANAGER
MANAGER
45+25+15
The types of organizations responding are broken down as shown in the following graphic. Respondents
whose organizations don’t use SIAM and don’t plan to use SIAM are not included in this whitepaper.
15%
No, we don’t
45%
15% Yes, my organization
sells SIAM consultancy,
No, but we plan technology or
to adopt it implementation
solutions
25%
Yes, my organization
has implemented
SIAM
The organizations who completed the survey but do not use/plan to use SIAM were asked for any
specific reasons. These included a lack of understanding of or belief in the value that SIAM would
deliver, and a general lack of understanding of what SIAM is. Other organizations reported not
being ready to adopt SIAM, as well as budgetary constraints.
The responses in this section are from organizations that are planning to adopt
SIAM. Their expectations and plans can be compared to the organizations that
have adopted SIAM (section 4) and the responses from organizations that sell
SIAM solutions and consultancy (section 5).
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3.1 What are the strategic drivers for your organization considering SIAM?
7% Other
‘Better ability to measure and attribute service quality’ is the one of the most popular
responses for the second year. ‘Better performance’ has overtaken ‘more control’ since 2021.
Respondents appear to have realistic expectations about how long a SIAM transition will
take with only 3% expecting to complete their SIAM transition within a year.
In 2021, 59% of respondents selected 1-2 years. This year the responses show that
the organizations planning to adopt SIAM envisage a longer program of work.
OTHER
4%
The number of SIAM models being planned with IT services only has fallen slightly from 73%
in 2021. Non-IT services have dropped from 5% in 2021 to 0% now, and the mixture of IT and
non-IT services has increased from 22% to 29%
71%
71
IT SERVICES ONLY
29%
A MIXTURE OF IT
& NON-IT SERVICES
0%
NON-IT SERVICES
0 29 +
ONLY
NO YES
57% 32%
HUMAN RESOURCES
18%
This question was introduced in 2021 to FINANCE
track the adoption of enterprise SIAM.
‘Other’ responses included:
Digital services
End-customer services
14%
Facilities
LOGISTICS
11%
MARKETING &
MANUFACTURING
43+36+21B
This question was first asked in the 2020 survey. The number of organizations planning to include all
vendors/service providers in their SIAM model has increased from 37% in 2021 to 43% in 2022.
NO
A MAJORITY ARE
UP
NOT INCLUDED 21% 6%
43% YES
NO 36%
A MINORITY ARE
NOT INCLUDED
USING INTERNAL
RESOURCES ONLY
11%
22% 55%
USING A LARGE
CONSULTANCY
OR VENDOR TO
SUPPORT US
12%
39+11+437m
Internal/hybrid structures are the most popular in 2022, as was also the case in 2021 and 2020. The external
service integrator structure has overtaken the lead supplier structure this year.
LEAD SUPPLIER
7%
HYBRID 43%
11%
EXTERNAL SERVICE
INTEGRATOR
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“Hybrid structure continues to be the choice of most
respondents, combining the skills and culture of the
retained organization together with the capability
and knowledge of vendors. It allows the flexibility for
the organization to take on more of the SIAM model
as their experience grows.”
Helen Nunn
BENEFITS
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
50% Easier to attribute service cost and quality to different service providers
0% Other
The top three responses are the same as the benefits hoped for in 2021, however collaboration
between suppliers has overtaken reporting and management information.
“The top three benefits have stayed the same over the
past few years. It is interesting that on the one hand
cost/quality benefits are cited which seems somewhat
contradictory to the change in the relative importance
of the strategic drivers.”
Michelle Major-Goldsmith
CHALLENGES
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
0% Other
In 2021, establishing the service integrator was only seen as a challenge by 48%
of organizations. This year, there has been a large increase in the percentage of
respondents who anticipate this being a challenge.
Respondents were able to choose multiple options. IT service management and organizational change
management dominate the answers to this question, as they have in previous years.
43% Automation
25% Agile
25% Lean
11% DevOps
4% Other
61
NO
NO, BUT WE ARE
TAKING NO ACTION
NO
NO, AND WE ARE
18%
LOOKING AT
TECHNOLOGY 61% YES
INTEGRATION
SOLUTIONS
NO 18%
NO, AND WE PLAN
TO REPLACE IT
UP
The number of respondents reporting their current tool is fit for purpose 12%
rose from 49% in 2021.
75%
61%
57%
50%
32% 29%
18%
14%
7% 4%
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“It is pleasing to see the difference highlighted in
these data points. Playing out that SIAM skills and
ITIL 4 overtook ITIL v3 in this capability, in influencing, relationship building
year’s survey. ‘Other’ responses
included: and collaborating with the inter-practice and
Business Technology Standard other methodologies. I find numerous capabilities
or BT model or methodologies generally operating within the
All frameworks are used across technology ecosystem. This coupled with recognition
different projects, depending
on the client request
that the SIAM transformation is not needing to be
Nadler Tushman Congruence experts in all other methodologies.”
Model Adam Martin
43% 14%
SIAM SIAM
FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL
46% NONE
14% OTHER
The number of respondents reporting some SIAM training has increased, with ‘none’
falling from 60% in 2021. ‘Other’ responses included ITIL and PRINCE2 training.
Respondents were given the opportunity to share any other comments they had in a free
text field. Their responses included:
The biggest mistake that organizations make is thinking they can “just adopt” SIAM
without fully understanding that paying lip service will pretty much ensure failure and
no benefits.
Our travel into the SIAM space is to close a major skill gap in a whole national network
redesign. The intent is to bring it all back in house after the 3 year project is completed.
It’s going to a hard slog moving from transactional to collaborative relationships.
SIAM will help organizations and businesses align business and IT better in service
domains. It may make digital transformation much easier and get more fruitful results
from the expectation and investment.
The responses in this section are from organizations who have adopted SIAM.
These are typically the ‘customer organizations’ who appoint the service
integrator and hold the contractual relationship with service providers.
17% Other
The number of SIAM transitions that are not complete yet has risen from 29% in 2021.
14+86K22+78K17+83K47+53K
LESS THAN
A YEAR
14%
1-2
YEARS
22%
2-3
YEARS
17%
NOT
COMPLETE
YET
47%
UP
29%
As with the organizations planning to adopt SIAM in section 3.3, there are no
SIAM models reported for non-IT services only.
89%
89
IT SERVICES ONLY
11%
A MIXTURE OF IT
& NON-IT SERVICES
0%
0 11 +
NON-IT SERVICES
ONLY
31+42+27B
For the second year running, more than 50% of organizations have not included all of their vendors/service
providers in their SIAM model. This could link to the data in section 4.2 showing that almost a third of SIAM
transitions are not yet complete.
NO 27%
A MAJORITY ARE
31% YES
NOT INCLUDED
NO 42%
A MINORITY ARE
NOT INCLUDED
NO YES
72% 11%
HUMAN RESOURCES
11%
FINANCE
11%
LOGISTICS
8%
MANUFACTURING
8%
OTHER
3%
MARKETING
31+19+3911m
LEAD SUPPLIER 11%
31% INTERNAL SERVICE
INTEGRATOR
HYBRID 39%
19% EXTERNAL SERVICE
INTEGRATOR
BENEFITS
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
34% Easier to attribute service cost and quality to different service providers
17% Other
CHALLENGES
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
11% Other
33% Automation
31% Agile
14% DevOps
8% Lean
6% Other
B 3 8 11 +
The number of respondents who report their tool is fit for purpose fell from 77% in 2021. Just
over 10% of respondents are working with a tool that is not fit for purpose but have no plans in
place to make any changes. Some respondents in the ‘Other’ category reported assessing whether
customization or replacement was the best option.
67
NO
NO, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
SOLUTIONS
3%
NO 8%
NO, AND WE PLAN TO
REPLACE IT
OTHER
11%
UP
The number of respondents reporting their current tool is fit for purpose
18%
rose from 49% in 2021.
75%
61%
47%44%
25% 22%
14% 11%
8% 8% 8% 8%
3%
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‘Other’ responses included IT4IT, value stream mapping, TQM and ADKAR.
“I believe these numbers may also reflect the organizational capabilities outside of SIAM, and
more so the areas of inter practice influencing that SIAM people undertake, collaborating
with others to achieve end to end service outcomes and improvements. I’m also fascinated
with the volume of models being used. Presents our belief strongly that SIAM is about people,
being curious and working together, focusing on what’s important now and grappling with
the reality of the current position to unlock all of the opportunities.”
Michelle Major-Goldsmith
58+42+G 28+72G
Respondents were able to choose multiple options.
58% 28%
SIAM SIAM
FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL
31+69+G 11+89+G31%
Respondents were given the opportunity to share any other comments they had in a free text field.
Their responses included:
The SIAM function mostly do old-fashioned service management. Not really SIAM.
Increasingly clients are either intrinsically doing this function or setting up an internal SIAM
function rather than a specialist one.
A request to strengthen the guidance on collaboration/OLA handling/contract guidance for
swarming, change and improvement.
It is really difficult to achieve benefits when the whole enterprise is not involved.
Culture Change Champions play a key role in influencing the shift from traditional service
models to SIAM. To have these changes senior management needs to be having a very good
understanding of the end picture.
SIAM is quite the complex thing in practice...specifically when all the parts are moving through
different transition programs.
Hardest part of embedding SIAM has been changing business behaviours and breaking old habits.
This section includes responses from organizations who sell SIAM consultancy or
solutions. These organizations might fulfil a service integrator role or provide support as
a customer organization transitions to a SIAM model, and then disengage. They might
provide software to support a SIAM ecosystem.
26%
TECHNOLOGY
PROVIDER
23%
NICHE OR SIAM FOCUSED
CONSULTANCY OR VENDOR
47G 26 23 + 4 47%
LARGE CONSULTANCY
OR VENDOR
9% Other
27+73K52+48K12+88K9+91K
LESS THAN
A YEAR
27%
1-2
YEARS
52%
2-3
YEARS
12%
NO DEFINED
END DATE
9%
64+35+1
“It is interesting but not unsurprising that there
are significant shorter transition times amongst
the professional (consultancy) organizations
when reporting on transition timelines.”
Simon Dorst
35% 64%
A MIXTURE OF IT IT SERVICES ONLY
& NON-IT SERVICES
NO YES
47% 32%
HUMAN RESOURCES
17%
FINANCE
22%
LOGISTICS
22%
“Unlike the ‘planning to implement’ and MANUFACTURING
‘organizations that have implemented’
groups there is a reduction in the ‘no’s’ 8%
and even more of a spread for inclusion
into the SIAM model from other parts of MARKETING
their organizations. This demonstrates a
commitment to extend SIAM outside of its
traditional IT scope which is encouraging.
10%
SIAM is useful wherever there are several
OTHER
providers regardless of service types.”
Michelle Major-Goldsmith ‘Other’ responses included real
estate/facilities, and internal
service desks (non-IT).
13+23+5113m
LEAD SUPPLIER
13% 13% INTERNAL SERVICE
INTEGRATOR
HYBRID 51%
BENEFITS
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
43% Easier to attribute service cost and quality to different service providers
10% Other
CHALLENGES
(HIGHEST TO LOWEST)
4% Other
44% Automation
39% Agile
25% Lean
19% DevOps
5% Other
“Similar trends and shifts across all three responder groups, apart from ‘influencing and
negotiation’ which has increased amongst the professional organizations. Together with
organizational change, communication and business relationship management indicates
the critical importance of the people aspects of a SIAM transition.”
Simon Dorst
79%
74%
66%
62%
47%
32%
29%
21% 18%
10% 9%
5% 1%
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71+29+G 55+45G
Respondents were able to choose multiple options.
71% 55%
SIAM SIAM
FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL
Respondents were given the opportunity to share any other comments they had in a free text field. Their
responses included:
In the local market we see that multiple mid-size IT service providers are investing in SIAM capabilities
(Netherlands).
Today many customers are looking for SIAM adoption but I feel there aren’t enough case studies
globally available with benchmarking KPIs and indicators to dictate the benefits of SIAM.
SIAM must extend beyond IT Services. Currently the adoption is low beyond IT.
Based on my experience I saw SIAM is working for companies having 10 to 20 Suppliers. I’d like to know
how it works for big organizations (for example in the manufacturing industry) with more than 50 or
100+ suppliers (global and local)?
SIAM works better for multi-supplier eco-systems and it benefits both client and service providers. it
empowers the SIAM functions to perform better and measure the supplier scale of performance.
The major challenge revolves around having customer support. They still want the complete control.
Instead of overarching, they tend to get into daily operations and are therefore not able to focus on
their core business. For SIAM to be successful, it’s important to give a free hand and have full trust in the
integrator to drive it forward.
Would like to see SIAM certifications to become more common.
The I in SIAM, needs to start changing from Integration to Influence. SIAM is the builder of bridges
from where the organization is to where leadership want to get to. This is done by focusing on “what’s
important now” - using strategy as the guiding light, and priority for the missions.
The biggest hurdle to a successful adoption of a SIAM ecosystem in all customers that I have observed
has been due to a poor attempt or lip service to OCM activities. This puts the Service Integrator on
the back foot from day one and negatively impacts the organization’s ability to gain value from
implementing SIAM. The organizations that gain best value from SIAM are those that have a mature
service management model that clearly defines business and user services and enables SIAM to
directly engage business stakeholders with service insights and service provider performance issues
as there is a clear owner of the impact of the underperformance. Those organizations who don’t have
this sufficiently mature and/or pay lip service to the OCM requirements of a SIAM implementation will
struggle to recognise value from SIAM.
SIAM engagements need to be a focus at the executive level with senior leaders leading the OCM
component. A phased and maturity- lead approach is needed with investment recognized to enable the
business transformation.
Needs to be time taken to ensure buy-in, executive level to support right through
operations in customer world. Understand what staff used to do is now
potentially what the service integrator will do. Don’t give up, communicate,
help customers to understand their new role, how governance should/
can work.
“Since Kinetic IT last sponsored the Global SIAM survey in 2019, there has been an interesting
and marked shift in focus in the world of SIAM. A few years ago, survey respondents were
focused on digital transformation, customer value and integrating services across both IT
and non-IT multi-provider ecosystems. In this latest survey, we see a shift across the three
respondent groups into planning to implement SIAM, maturing SIAM capability and specialist
SIAM providers; there is, however, still a unifying theme emerging.
Among the SIAM community, there is now a growing focus on service integration contributing
to driving enhanced performance across complex provider ecosystems. There is less focus on
costs and contractual levers, and a greater appreciation of the need for service quality, cross-
provider collaboration, along with necessary cultural alignment for ecosystem unification
and cohesion.
This year’s survey data supports this and provides a common theme; no longer are
organizations looking to do things independently, but rather through a hybrid SIAM
model. Our experience at Kinetic IT aligns with this view. Building an internal capability,
whilst partnering with SIAM advisory and consultative specialists, allows for business
context immersion and faster adoption across organizations. The data also indicates that
organisational change management is considered a key success factor.”
Claire Agutter
Director, Scopism
Kevin O’Sullivan
Head of Digital Enablement
Kinetic IT
“The last two years have been enormously challenging for many organizations and business
and supply chain pressures continue to be felt. There are broader industry changes taking
place, particularly related to supply chain and goods management with a shift from ‘just in
time’ strategies to more cautious approaches that are less vulnerable to disruption and more
locally focused.
SIAM can provide real value in these complex environments, and it’s encouraging to see the
continued global growth of SIAM reflected in the survey results. I would have hoped to see
more SIAM models incorporating non-IT services, but this may change in years to come. As
organizations shift to a value stream/work flow focus other business areas including HR,
finance, logistics etc. may naturally merge into an organization’s SIAM model.
The benefits of adopting SIAM are clear and remain consistent through the five years that
we’ve been carrying out this survey, but the challenges, particularly around tooling and
automation, also require careful study to make sure that the right results are delivered.“
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