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

[Leslie June]

Strengths – Experience, establishing trust, cross-functional team leadership
Weaknesses – Day to day run operations – I have been a consultant for decades, never a practitioner
Opportunities – CDW is considering offering ITAM as a Service – getting involved with that could give me practitioner experience to round out my knowledge for consulting purposes
Threats – My contract renewal depends on CDW continuing to sign new business

[Alexis Thomason]

S: Procurement, Team Relationships
W: Asset Management once devices leave our building – we struggle to keep a hand on assets once they’re in the co-workers’ hands.
O: Better use of software and technology.
T: C-Level Support.

[Nathaniel Reyes]

n/a

[Michael McPhee]

Strength: Strong team members who are willing to learn
Weakness: Insufficient technical expertise
Opportunity: implementation of KPAs
Threat: Tight timelines

[Javier Moreno]

Strengths

Comprehensive asset tracking system
Strong governance and compliance framework
Weaknesses

Limited integration with other IT systems
Resource constraints for managing large volumes of assets
Opportunities

Adoption of AI and automation for asset management
Expansion into cloud asset management
Threats

Increasing cybersecurity risks
Regulatory changes impacting asset management practices

[Prerna Misra]

N/A

[Pratiksha Rajendra Jadhav]

Effective Communication

Unlicensed Software Usage

Process Streamlining

[Cassandra Tillman]

S – Executive buyin
W – Automation, workflows and reporting
O – Work with other teams to create and implement automations
T – Need for better reporting

[Kathy Jackson]

Strengths:
Strong asset tagging system in place along with upgraded asset inventory databases
Departmental processes already in place from Procurement to disposal
Weakness: No communication between the licensing capturing and the asset inventory databases
Opportunities: To join the two databases into one with the update
Threats: all handled by Security departments, both electronic and physical.

[Max Thorne]

Strengths: Items are tagged when they come in.
Weakness: Staff streached too thin and thus records are not kept in a time fashion or not at all.
Opportunities: We are reseting our inventory system and now is the time to get it right.
Threat: Not keeping the system updated with financials will not pass comeing audit.

[Catharine Titus]

S – Tenure
W – Coordination
O – AI
T – AI

[Anders Bastrup]

na

[Fatma Albloushi]

S: Technology and solution are available
W: lack of skilled team members
O: standardization and KPAs implementation
T: Senior management support

[Ugonna Ike-Peters]

Strengths: Leadership
Weakness: Inventory management
Opportunities: Get value from ITAM Tool
Threat: Siloed teams

[John Smorstad]

Strength: Good relationship with vendors
Weakness: May not scale up with the advent of AI
Opportunities: Automate more processes and pursue greater efficiency
Threat: New asset tracking system may or may not be compatible with current workflows

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