This blog is from Martin Thompson, the founder of the ITAM Forum.
At the end of March 2023 in Florida, the ITAM Forum held the first ISO/IEC 19770-1 Practitioner course.
This course is for anyone wanting to take either their own organization or their customer organization on a journey towards ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification. We developed this course in partnership with the BC Academy, the training arm of Brand Compliance (the auditor for the 19770-1 certification scheme).
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Swindon, UK, 21st March 2023: Less than one month after launching the world’s first ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification scheme for IT asset management, the ITAM Forum today announces a new program to help end-user organizations achieve ISO ITAM certification.
The ISO/IEC 19770-1 Certification Patron program showcases ITAM managed service providers best qualified to help organisations achieve ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification. The ITAM Forum has assessed each Certification Patron against set criteria, and these Patrons must also gain ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification – if they haven’t already – so they have first-hand knowledge of, and experience with, the certification process.
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In February 2023, Brand Compliance, in collaboration with ITAM Forum, issued the world’s first, two certificates for ISO/IEC 19770-1. This is a management system standard that focuses on the management of IT assets. The standard offers an overview of the different categories of IT assets and views these categories in a process-based way.
Yorick Heijink is the Lead Auditor at Brand Compliance for ISO/IEC 19770-1, 9001 and 27001. Prior to becoming a certification auditor, Yorick was a Product Manager and Project Manager within the IT services and consulting sector.
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Softline Group Northern Europe and HDI Group become the first two organizations certified
Swindon, UK, 22nd February 2023: The ITAM Forum today announced the launch of the world’s first ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification scheme for IT asset management and celebrates the first two organizations to ever receive certification – Softline Group Northern Europe and HDI Group.
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In our latest member-only webinar, our panel of ITAM experts focused on ITAM Power Skills, those soft skills ITAMers need to master to successfully elevate ITAM’s role and contribution within an organisation. The conversation largely focused on the ever-present challenge of stakeholder engagement. We explored angles such as:
From Martin Thompson, founder of the ITAM Forum
We recently recorded a podcast episode with Brian Adler from Flexera, discussing the 2022 State of ITAM Report published late last year. I found one area of the report particularly relevant to the ITAM Forum – the amount of time SAM teams spend responding to audits.
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This guest blog is from Shadi Khoshab – Global Director, ITAM and Software Sourcing Services – SoftwareOne.
As the ITAM professional within your organization, your success and impact depends on your relationship with different stakeholders. The most important groups you should be working with span from C-level functions (CIO, CFO, CPO, CSO) to procurement/sourcing teams, legal (internal or external), business owners, and technical staff (database administrators, infrastructure/virtualization managers, public cloud managers, application owners).
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Who would have thought that when the ITAM Forum launched back in 2020, so much would be achieved within just two years! Much of this success is down to all of you, the global ITAM community. Thank you!
2022 has been a tremendous year for us, but we’re gearing up for 2023 to be even better with the introduction of the world’s first, globally-recognised and accepted ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification scheme. More information about the scheme is below, but we’d first like to shout about some of our other 2022 achievements. None of these would have been possible if it wasn’t for you…our members, trustees and patrons…and the world-wide ITAM community.
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