Overview

While incident management focuses on restoring service quickly, problem management focuses on identifying and resolving the root cause of incidents to prevent them from recurring.

Key Activities

  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Investigating why an incident happened.
  • Trend Analysis: Identifying patterns in incidents.
  • Known Error Database (KEDB): Maintaining a record of known problems and their workarounds.

Benefits

  • Reduces the number of incidents over time.
  • Improves service quality and reliability.
  • Increases the efficiency of the service desk.

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