23.3
Incident Management
Incident management concentrates on restoring unexpectedly degraded or disrupted services to business users as quickly as possible, in order to minimize any adverse impact on business. Service Desk is responsible for managing the lifecycle of all incidents, from the point of notification received until its resolution/closure. Incidents may be recognized either by technical staff or detected and reported by event monitoring tools or from users via a telephone call to the service desk, or reported by third-party vendor and outsourcing partners.
Incident management procedures are structured to achieve the following value to business: