IT service management is a discipline involving a broad spectrum of different standards, practices and processes, the relationships between them and how they interact. Organizations use IT service management to help organize and coordinate the activities, technologies, and information needed to provide IT capabilities to users in a consistent, reliable and efficient fashion. IT service management includes the entire iceberg – both the hidden components beneath the surface as well as those above in the tip exposed to users. 

It’s hard to imagine accomplishing any significant task that doesn’t depend upon the direct use of IT. Even routine or mundane chores often involve a myriad of different systems, databases, devices, apps, networks and clouds, all of which may communicate and interact with one another.  

As users, we only glimpse the tip of the iceberg in the form of the IT services and service offerings made available to us. If we could look beneath the surface, we’d discover a wide range of activities and technological infrastructure that must be planned, created, organized, choreographed, deployed, improved, supported and secured before we can click submit to somehow bring it all together to help us achieve our objectives.