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🛠️ '''IT service management (ITSM)''' encompasses the processes, practices, and tools that an insurance organization uses to design, deliver, operate, and continually improve the technology services on which its business depends. For [[Definition:Insurance carrier | carriers]], [[Definition:Insurance broker | brokers]], and [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurers]], these services range from the [[Definition:Policy administration system | policy administration]] and [[Definition:Claims management system | claims platforms]] that underwriters and adjusters use daily, to the [[Definition:Catastrophe model | catastrophe modeling]] environments actuaries rely on, to the customer-facing portals and mobile applications through which policyholders report losses and manage their coverage. ITSM brings structure and repeatability to how these services are maintained, ensuring they remain available, performant, and secure.

⚙️ Most insurance organizations ground their ITSM practices in established frameworks — ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) being the most widely adopted — which define standardized processes for incident management, problem management, change management, service request fulfillment, and configuration management. When a [[Definition:Claims management system | claims system]] experiences an outage in the middle of a [[Definition:Catastrophe | catastrophe]] response, for instance, ITSM incident management processes dictate how the issue is triaged, escalated, communicated to affected business units, and resolved within defined service-level agreements. Change management processes govern how updates to [[Definition:Core system | core systems]] — whether patches, configuration changes, or major releases — are reviewed, tested, and deployed without disrupting live operations. Modern ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow, BMC, and Jira Service Management serve as the operational backbone, providing ticketing, workflow automation, and reporting dashboards that give technology and business leaders visibility into service health.

📈 The quality of ITSM directly influences an insurer's operational reliability and, by extension, its reputation with policyholders, [[Definition:Insurance broker | distribution partners]], and regulators. In an era when [[Definition:Digital transformation | digital transformation]] is accelerating the pace of technology change — with [[Definition:Cloud computing | cloud migrations]], [[Definition:Application programming interface (API) | API]] integrations, and [[Definition:Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) | AI-driven]] tool deployments occurring simultaneously — disciplined service management prevents innovation from introducing instability. Regulators in several jurisdictions, including the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority and the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), explicitly expect firms to demonstrate robust IT service continuity and incident response capabilities. For insurers, ITSM is not back-office plumbing — it is the operational discipline that keeps promises to policyholders deliverable when technology inevitably encounters stress.

'''Related concepts:'''
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* [[Definition:IT governance]]
* [[Definition:Cybersecurity]]
* [[Definition:Business continuity planning (BCP)]]
* [[Definition:Core system modernization]]
* [[Definition:Operational resilience]]
* [[Definition:Cloud computing]]
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