It Hardware Asset Management - A Full Guide To Setting It Up

Step by step guide to discovery, design, and road mapping your deliver of a IT hardware asset management database. (ITAM

What you'll learn

Definitions of assets and CIs

Understanding of policy and process development in HAM

Understand how to map out processes to understand how HAM can fit in

Establishing core basics; asset labelling, agreement of field definitions, core data

How to transition from Manual to automated Hardware Asset Management

Configuration Management - working in a manual manner and how to transition to automation

Requirements

Basic knowledge of IT equipment

no Asset management knowledge required, it will be taught at the start

Description

This course provides you a no nonsense guide to setting up a new hardware asset management service. This is an excellent guide for contractors or staff assigned to setting up a new service specific to tracking assets and moving to an agile method of delivering this. Why this course over the rest? This one is about practical application and the bigger focus on business as well as IT implementation!This guide will help you discover what you should do before recording assets - understanding the user and business needs, policy and process documentation through to  strategic views of where you go longer term in your drive towards maturity.It will also give helpful tips on how you think about logistics - asset tagging, field definitions, and general single ways of working.  It also gives you guidance on how to ensure you do the right BAU activities such as auditing. With this purchase you also gain access to templates for policies, processes and other key information that will guide you through the full process of set up.  It also shows you some business management skills that will help you tie in your set up to the wider audience that is your organization. This course is based on practical terms, and focusses less on theory, its a no nonsense guide to surviving the task of setting up your own hardware asset management database! There is also some really clever methods on how you can get senior team buy and and ensure that your service continues to get investment on the road to automation.Enjoy!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Understanding the basics - terminologies

Lecture 3 User Research - understanding the business and end user needs

Lecture 4 Strategic viewing before you begin

Lecture 5 Understanding the scope, size and expectations of your organization

Section 2: Policy and Process - how to write

Lecture 6 Why do I need a policy and what should be in it?

Lecture 7 What is process mapping and how it will impact your delivery

Lecture 8 Process Mapping considerations - Joiners, movers, leavers and much more

Section 3: Managing Logistics

Lecture 9 What other activities you need consider..

Section 4: Auditing and controls

Lecture 10 Auditing tips and controls

Lecture 11 Reporting and ROI

Section 5: Preparing for an automated world

Lecture 12 Automation preperation

Section 6: Summary

Lecture 13 Some additional resource and reading

Lecture 14 Summary and final tips

Businesses starting up Hardware Asset Management and those establishing new services within IT businesses,Contractors who want to gain skills in setting up a Hardware Asset Management Database