Implementing sustainable ITAM practices

Implementing sustainable ITAM practices

June 26, 2023

Author: Jaroslaw Richert
ITAM Forum Trustee; Senior Management – IT Asset Governance, Schneider Electric 

This article is the perfect read for ITAM practitioners looking to improve their ITAM practices, especially within sustainability. The data within showcases the ITAM practices and advice in improving your sustainability approaches.

Indeed by incorporating environmental and sustainability criteria into IT Asset Management, Schneider Electric has demonstrated how companies can unlock additional potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within its internal IT.

IT Asset Management —overseeing an organization’s investment in IT, with its knowledge of the IT estate, usage, configurations and business value — has a pivotal role in delivering sustainable IT.

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Wisdom EMEA 2023 Wrap Up

We gained wisdom last week at Wisdom EMEA 2023

June 22, 2023

Last week, Wisdom EMEA was back in person and with a bang. It’s excellent agenda filled with interesting sessions (lead by a wide range of ITAM industry experts) made it hard at times to choose which breakout room to enter.

Below are six of our top takeaways from Wisdom EMEA. We tried to keep this list to five, but there simply was too much good information.

Reinventing ITAM for the Future:

Shadi Khoshab from SoftwareOne addressed what ITAM needs to manage (thinks Saas and FinOps), how it needs to operate (think value-driven), and what it needs to cover (think closer relationships with IT Service Management, Operations Management, Infosecurity and Sustainability – “Who better than ITAM to help avoid wastage.”). Furthermore, with the technology landscape evolving at an incredibly fast pace, there’s a real opportunity for ITAM to step up and evolve. Oh no, no, no…ITAM is certainly no longer just about license management.
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Sustainability: How ITAM can make a difference

Sustainability: Where and how ITAM can make a difference

June 12, 2023

This blog first appeared on the Angelpoint website.  Angelpoint is an ITAM Forum Certification Patron.

Last week we invited members of the ITAM community to our London office to discuss a topic close to our hearts.  Sustainability in ITAM. These regular roundtables are designed to be a place to share common challenges, questions, and ideas about the pressing issues of our industry. And this one brought up lots of questions.

There’s no doubt sustainability is a hot topic these days. Get a group of CIOs together to talk about what’s on the horizon and no doubt it will be at the top of the agenda.

Attendees also commented that they are seeing more customers asking about sustainability.  Meanwhile, they are seeking help to create systems where they can provide sustainability reports as part of their ITAM function.
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IT Priority

IT Priorities and how ITAM can help

April 24, 2023

We recently spoke with Alastair Pooley, Snow Software’s CIO, about key findings from Snow’s 2023 IT Priority Report and the associated opportunities for ITAM.

This report highlights a range of findings from an October 2022 poll of 800 CIOs based in Australia, Germany, the UK, and the USA. The aim was to unearth the challenges, opportunities and priorities facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2023 and beyond.
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First ISO/IEC 19770-1 Practitioners

Delivering the first ISO/IEC 19770-1 Practitioner Course

April 12, 2023

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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The ITAM Forum announces ISO/IEC 19770-1 Certification Patron Program

March 21, 2023

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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Meet a certification scheme auditor

Meet an ISO/IEC 19770-1 auditor

March 13, 2023

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.

Meet Yorick

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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