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Project AM: Managing Enterprise IT Assets
Maximizing the return on IT investments
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We found that most large corporations can reduce
the costs of their information technology assets by 5-15% without sacrificing
business performance. In information-intensive businesses, where IT assets are a
significant line item, this translates into serious money.
Don’t confuse simple asset tracking (or the
software that automates it) with the business process of asset
management. A comprehensive and institutionalized asset management program not
only reduces direct costs and ongoing cost structures, but also enables the
company to leverage assets in place for greater business value.
The bad news is that asset management often stops
with a rear-view-mirror inventory of physical property (from mainframes to
desktops) and that individual asset investment decisions are made in isolation.
The good news is that Y2K projects and recent rationalizations of technology
architecture leave many companies better positioned than ever to get serious
about asset management.
Asset management provides the crucial link between
what is spent on IT and what business value that spending creates. It also
serves as an integrating management process within IT organizations. Asset
optimization must encompass both controlling IT costs and maximizing business
return.
This Re.sults® report provides a toolkit
for comprehensive asset management, including a framework for basing asset
decisions on business value generated. It includes techniques for managing
specific assets – mainframes, desktops, networks, applications software, people,
information, knowledge – both individually and as a business portfolio.
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