RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER SERVICE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Incident management is closely linked to problem management with one or more incidents being caused by a problem. There is also a strong link with change management. Changes are often implemented to resolve an incident or a number of incidents and, unfortunately, changes that do not do exactly what they were intended to do may cause incidents. Service asset and configuration management provides the information needed to manage incidents. Service level management will provide the target resolution times together with escalation criteria.