The Institute for Technology Asset
Management provides professional development and public training
programs in the fields of Software & Copyright Compliance Assurance
(SCCA), Software Asset Management (SAM), Information Technology Asset
Management (ITAM / TAM), and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM).
Caution: IT Asset management has recently been somewhat absorbed by a wide range of other groups who have shoe-horned the capibilities into their own format (such as ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning). Be sure that, when you search out asset management training, the resources you consider are focused on the profession of asset management, not as a psuedo value-add to enable them to up-sell you into additional - and frequently significantly more costly - goods and/or services.
The Institute's
information technology asset management professional development
programs are anchored in the front line common sense experiences of
working IT asset managers - representing our global membership. These
practitioners also have deep expertise in such areas as project
management, contract management, business process improvement, internal
auditing, negotiations, ITIL, ISO standards, and other complimentary
fields. In addition, our programming is unique in the industry, having
been organized and delivered at the collegiate level to optimize both
depth of coverage and alignment of competencies with both academic
principles and real world IT asset management operations.
Our primary goals?
To develop and deliver the IT asset management industry's most
cost-effective and comprehensive professional development knowledge and
credentialing programs.
Our supportive goals?
To deliver our programming to a global audience, enabling businesses of
all sizes, operating in any industry or cultural environment, to gain
maximum ROI value for their business technology investments while
minimizing technology related risks.
The
Institute for Technology Asset Management training is the first
programming to be based on globally recognized professional competencies
as documented in the standardized Guide to the Technology Asset
Management Body of Knowledge – TAMBOK™.
The uniquely affordable TAMBOK documents the competencies necessary for
practitioners – or enterprises – to establish and support a wide range
of information technology asset management initiatives.
The Institute's training
programs re-enforce and enhance the process behind the proven TAMBOK
competencies. While the Institute programs integrate a wide range of
standards and best practices, our members believe that there is a
significantly higher percentage of ROI results to be generated from a
renewed focus on basic business processes and practitioner competencies.
As a direct consequence, IT asset management training from The
Institute delivers significant value at minimal expense – with no need
to purchase costly standards, consulting, or support products.
The Institute is the only
non profit [501(c)(3)] practitioner-driven association of IT asset
management professionals in the world, having been established to fill
the void of providing cost-effective training and open knowledge
transfer to information technology asset managers as well as to the
general public. The Institute also leads the IT asset management field
in providing the only non-proprietary professional development and
credentialing programs designed around a functional interdisciplinary
knowledge framework.
The Institute's
TAMBOK-focused professional development programs have been available
online since 2006 with custom-built instructor-led IT asset management
programming currently available on a scheduled basis. Institute
programming is also being delivered at the university level via
workforce development programming. The Institute will resume scheduling
open-to-the-public – instructor led - programming via its new web site
in 2nd quarter 2011.
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