Create a SWOT analysis of your current or anticipated ITAM program.

[Christopher Davis]

S Strong Chain of custody for items.
W Approval Process too easily circumvented
O There is an opportunity for the Approval process to be strengthened against bypass.
T the biggest threat is overbuying/incompatible hardware purchased due to cracks in the approval process

[Renee Larry]

Strengths: Creating efficient processes and procedures
Weakness: Limited resourses
Opportunities: Finding a better way to track inventory
Threat: Lost or not returned devices are not captured, no penalty to user.

[Angela Pesnilyan]

Strong systems in place for tracking IT Asset procurement
Willingness to adapt to new technologies
Optimized cloud-based solutions
Trends in the market that may lead to increased coemption

[Michael Boudreau]

Strengths: ITAM is proven to be reliable to IT executive management and accounting.
Weakness: Too much involved in one-off exceptions or responding to other teams accusations that ITAM causes disruption to service management.
Opportunities: Continued demonstration competencies are feasible if invested in.
Threat: Lack of interest in investing in employees to reinforce policy, compliance, or governance. Lack of corporate enforcement with HR and legal when it comes to internal policy governance.

[Joshua Chen]

Strengths: Good team of hardworking workers with the right attitude
Weakness: Undermanned and becoming overwhelmed with tasks added last minute
Opportunities: Good foundation to tackle leadership objectives and continue to be pivotal in key business decisions
Threat: Leadership not fully understanding ITAM function and potentially absorbing into different team

[Naomi Diaz]

Strengths: Strong central repository of purchases and entitlement assignments. Discovery for hardware and software installations.
Weaknesses: Not enough resources to complete proactive activities.
Opportunities: take the data to the next level with AI and streamline processes
Threat: Vendor audits

[David White]

Between positions.

[Valerie Runci]

Strength – adherence to policies and corporate objectives
Weakness – People going around policies.
Opportunities – getting control over what we have and what people are downloading via portals
Threat – overcomplication of processes and time delays

[Tumu Trueh]

Strengths – Robust systems to manage assets
Weakness – Decentralized management of assets
Opportunities – Room for process improvements to address decentralized structure
Threat – Lack of funding and resources

[Angelin Ioan]

Strengths: buy-in from exec team for ITAM program;
Weakness: Limited tools and personal;
Opportunities: training;
Threat: fluctuations in the workflow;

[Jessie Qi]

Strength – Effective communication
Weakness – Short of resources
Opportunity – Standardisation and KPA implementation
Threat: Better use of discovery tools

[Aditya Arora]

N/A

[Richard Guiyab]

S – Cost Optimization
W – Resource Constraint
O – Integration
T – Rapid Tech Change

[Devi Ganurao]

NA

[Sean Cole]

S- Team Members/employees
W- communication with other departments
O- Software utilization
T – Internal changes

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