Service Management (SM):    An element of Business/IT Alignment (BITA). The high level process that manages IT Services on behalf of the business customers. It has authority to make decisions about the delivery of the entire portfolio of IT Services. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) sees Service Management as the overall philosophy, which informs the operations of the individual ITIL processes..

See also: TBD

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