In this chapter, you have learned if your organization is in a chaotic, reactive, proactive, managed, or optimized state when it comes to ITAM and what key initiatives you need to develop a sound foundation for your ITAM program. We have covered what ITAM is and isn't.
We have also covered the fundamentals and the lifecycle best practice for ITAM. The standard position of assets at a point in time doing the IMACD stages and where in the lifecycle process stage the asset is: control, procure, deploy, manage, or retire. You have also learned when planning ITAM:
- Don't boil the ocean by trying to manage too much at the beginning
- Don't create a central asset repository without reviewing how processes will keep the data complete and accurate
- Do leverage real business requirements to get there
- Do pull data from sources you know to be accurate
- Do pick the services that you want to manage
- Do ensure that processes are in place and reviewed
In Chapter 3, The New Risk Management, you will learn how...