What is Service Management?

Last updated: 2025-08-02

Service Oriented Management Made Simple for Small Business Owners

  • Service oriented management is a way of running your business by focusing on the services you deliver and their quality—what your customers value, pay for, and rely on.

Why Small and Growing Businesses Need Service-Oriented Management?

Because it focuses on the results—the output—you manage your vendors using KPIs (SLAs), not by controlling their internal processes. Service-oriented management is a way of managing activities and workflows that emphasizes the final output (services) and their quality—what the customer values, purchases, and uses. Unlike process-oriented management, which centers on the steps and procedures, service-oriented management prioritizes the output and its key metrics (see SLA).

So, what matters most in service management?

  • Service as the delivered output
  • Customer as the recipient of the service
  • Provider as the party delivering the service
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How Aptien Supports Service Management for SMBs

1. Vendor Management

2. IT Service Management