Audience - General Web Audience

1. Asset Management
Why Bother
Tony Lock
Freeform Dynamics Ltd
+44 7711 719113
tony@freeformdynamics.com
www.freeformdynamics.com
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2. Discussion
► Business Trends
► How Can Asset Management Help?
► Summary
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3. Today, business want to…
► Reduce costs
● Reduce time to market / Leverage existing investments
● Rationalise infrastructure / Reduce power consumption
► Increase agility
● information on demand / Streamlining communications
● Support business initiatives quickly & effectively
● Proactive versus reactive
► Manage risk
● Legal & regulatory / Security and privacy
● Information & IT / Continuity / resilience / Protect brand
► Be good corporate citizens
● Governance / External obligations / Internal improvement
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4. Is the funding of IT in your organisation generally on the
way up or down? (UK)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Corporate (>5000
emps)
Mid-Market (250-5000
emps)
SMB (<250 emps)
Funding is or appears to be increasing
Funding is or appears to be pretty static
Funding is or appears to be decreasing
Unsure, I don't really have a good view of the money side of things
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5. Has the „credit crunch‟ had a specific impact on IT
investment in your company or do you expect it to? (UK)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Corporate (>5000
emps)
Mid-Market (250-5000
emps)
SMB (<250 emps)
We do not think we will be affected
We are not predicting an impact, but we are well aware it might happen
We expect it to impact our spending next year (2009)
It has already impacted our IT spending significantly this year
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6. Do You Know What IT You Have ?
► Who has what?
► Who is running what?
• What is loaded / used
• Maintenance Contracts
• What performance levels are achieved?
► How much does IT Cost???
► Asset Management provides visibility and knowledge
• People, hardware and software assets
• Service costs
• Foundation of Business Service Management
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7. So what‟s the problem?
► The Cost of Not undertaking Asset Management
• Time
• Money (maintenance on unused, pay twice, volume discounts
etc.)
• Risk of non-compliance
• Brand Risk
• Liability
• Disposal
• Poor utilization/lack of re-use
► Confusion
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8. Asset Knowledge & IT Performance
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9. Audit & Knowledge
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10. Audit Frequency
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11. Use of Tools
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12. Asset Management benefits
► Maximum return on investment
• More effective asset utilization
► Improved decision support
• Basis for sound business decisions and planning
► Increased “technical agility”
• Upgrades, new initiatives, cascading and refresh policies
► Hard Monetary Savings
• Eliminate unnecessary expenditures
• Optimise procurement processes
►Supports Compliance / Governance Initiatives
► Directly impacts an organization‟s bottom line
► Used to Build BSM, Impacts the top line!
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