Egg and Chicken - George's point of view
Here is an excerpt from an excellent recent article by George Spafford that highlights Change management's role in configuration management.
Fundamentally, what groups don’t realize is that their challenge isn’t with Configuration Management. It is with Change Management. Change Management is the process by which an organization implements the necessary procedures to control changes to production and thus manage risk. It is very important to understand that Change Management governs Configuration Management – nothing should change in production, or the CMDB, without an approved Request for Change (RFC). If production is changing and nobody knows about it then this is a Change Management failure – not a Configuration Management failure.
Link to full article.