What's wrong with this picture: The lead company technician has done an outstanding job building the initial technology infrastructure. Let's reward the effort by making the technician a project manager!
How could the scenario above possibly relate to industry statistics that indicate over 70% of technology projects are late; or over budget; or they just plain fade away into a budgetary black hole? Could it be that successful technicians; or successful software developers; or successful anything else's do not have the right stuff to be project managers?
Don't start crying "foul" quite yet. There is a solution to this universal problem--at least a potential one. Read on for details!
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Using effective technology portfolio
management combined with technology asset management techniques,
Mercy Health Partners reduced their IT costs by more than $4,000,000.
Overspending on technology assets is significantly more prevalent
than underspending.
You can stop throwing money away by establishing
an effective technology asset management program and it can cost you
virtually nothing to get the initiative off the ground. Check out our professional development programs to get back on the path of getting genuine value for your technology asset investments.
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When you implement a well-considered technology asset management program--a SAM, TAM, or ITAM--your company will begin discovering an enormous range of tech-related cost reductions. Your key to serious technology cost reductions will be based in how well you plan out the technology processes and infrastructure of the initiative.
"According to industry research, as many as 75% of companies over-spend on technology acquisitions."
These unnecessary acquisitions include everything from buying too many software licenses to purchasing hardware that exceeds the technical needs or capabilities of the enterprise. Read on for a some basic ideas on reversing the trends!
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Q. - How can I actually use IT asset management to help me build next year's budget?
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