Should You Have a Secret Agent for IT Asset Management?
Start humming the James Bond theme, now. Or perhaps not. Agents in IT asset management don’t quite have the glamour of 007.
Start humming the James Bond theme, now. Or perhaps not. Agents in IT asset management don’t quite have the glamour of 007.
You mean, there is one? Yes, indeed – You see, online dating organizations are all about asset relationships, preferences, likes and dislikes.
You’d be surprised at the emotional bonding that can go on between users and their IT hardware devices but there’s a difference between managing your asset appropriately and actually collecting a heap of junk hardware you’ll never use.
Enough of the four-letter acronyms! CMDB, in case this had slipped your memory, stands for configuration management database.
Sure, as a CIO or IT manager, you know what IT risk management is. It’s all about applying risk management principles to IT, including the adoption, ownership, operation and influence of IT within the larger context of the enterprise but in terms of risk management language, are these principles communicated properly across the organisation?
“Here, take my old PC. I’m getting a new one to help meet my advanced needs, but this one will surely do the job for you.” This, in a nutshell, is cascading in IT asset management.