Incident Management : An unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service.

Failure of a configuration item that has not yet impacted service is also an incident, for example failure of one disk from a mirror set. Incident Management is the process for dealing with all incidents; this can include failures, questions or queries reported by the users (usually via a telephone call to the Service Desk), by technical staff, or automatically detected and reported by event monitoring tools.

Problem Management :
The Service Management process that encompasses Problem Control. Error Control and the production ofManagement Information. Problem Management is a process that identifies the root cause of defects, actual and potential. The primary objective is to make sure services are stable, timely and accurate and that Problems neither occur nor recur. Process maturity is denoted by its ability to focus on problem prevention.

Change Management :
The Service Management process responsible for controlling and managing requests to affect changes (RFCs) to the IT Infrastructure or any aspect of IT services to promote business benefit while minimizing the risk of disruption to services. Change Management also controls and manages the implementation of those changes that are subsequently given approval.

Change management :
1) Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with change, both from the perspective of an organization and on the individual level. A somewhat ambiguous term, change management has at least three different aspects, including: adapting to change, controlling change, and effecting change. A proactive approach to dealing with change is at the core of all three aspects. For an organization, change management means defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the business.