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Service Transition explicitly adds business value by understanding and managing risk during and after change, and by providing confidence that governance requirements are satisfied. These are direct outputs of Service Transition activities such as change evaluation, testing, and validation, which control how services move safely into production.

Risk Management is a supporting process that spans multiple lifecycle stages, not a discrete stage of the ITIL service lifecycle, making it an incorrect answer to a question asking about a lifecycle stage.

IT Service Continuity Management is a process within Service Design focused on disaster recovery and resilience planning, not on governing or evaluating risk during routine changes.

Availability Management is a Service Design process concerned with ensuring agreed availability levels are met, not with controlling risk and governance during change transitions.