ITAM, SAM, HAM
IT Asset Management used to be thought of as a back-office IT responsibility. Or, something associated with CMDB (configuration management database) and the Service Desk. But ITAM is coming out of the shadows and taking a more centre stage position.
Perhaps it’s because of digital transformation. Maybe it’s because of FinOps and cybersecurity. Possibly, it’s because every business – and every department – is now an IT business.
Meet Kate – Senior ITAM Consultant
Kate is the 2025 recipient of the ITAM Excellence Awards – Rising Star Award! Here, she shares her excitement of winning an award so early in her career and why ITAM is dynamic, high-impact career option, full of career growth opportunities.
Why aren’t you working in ITAM?
“You don’t often find a role within a company that in the course of a day, lets you talk to the CIO in the morning, talk to a desktop technician in the afternoon and in the middle, save $100,000 for your company.”
Brett Zurbrick — former ITAM Forum Trustee
“ITAM is one of the few areas where you get a mix of technology and business. There aren’t that many disciplines within IT itself that have the exposure to other areas of the business and the opportunity to influence these other areas. It can even take you into different career paths outside of IT that you may have not even thought of.”
Sherry Irwin — ITAM Forum Trustee and ITAM Excellence Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
