Not All Requests for Service are Service Requests
This is a topic as old as the ServiceNow platform. Since the initial applications built on ServiceNow were ITSM, from the ITIL framework, Service Request has been a point of interest for years. The generally accepted ITIL definition of a Service Request is “request from a user or a user’s authorized representative that initiates a service action which has been agreed as a normal part of service delivery”. (This differentiates from Incident, in that it doesn’t involve a restoration of Service.) The key part of this is “agreed as a normal part of service delivery”. Companies often struggle with what…