If we listened to and took to heart Colin Powell's declaration—there are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure, IT policies would be wildly successful.
An effective ITAM program can be the difference between getting the most out of your assets and possibly leaking millions of dollars. Today's business world is moving at a rapid pace. Employees work longer hours, from more locations, and with more devices to get the job done. From mobile phones to laptops to iPads, the amount of number assets assigned to individual executives has grown considerably over the last 5 years.
Although ITAM has never been as cut and dry as counting how many desktops are in use and what software is installed (though it may have been that simple during the initial adoption of technology in the workforce many years ago), it has become more complicated and essential with moving...