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Most IT teams do not struggle with change management itself. The problem is how it is run in practice. In many organizations, CABs meet regularly, approvals are recorded, and workflows already exist. Even with this in place, production incidents still come from changes that were not properly checked or assessed. The issue is not the process. It is execution. Many teams rely too much on approvals, do not assess risk in a consistent way, and slow down delivery with heavy governance.

Salesforce's research found that 61% of customers would rather solve simple issues on their own than wait for a support agent. The same pattern shows up inside companies, where most IT teams report that password resets, software requests, and ticket status checks make up the bulk of their daily work. So, the demand is clear. The use cases are obvious. Yet most self-service portals quietly stop being used by month six. This guide walks through what's going wrong, and what works.