IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide

by Martyn Hobbs

Rewards to be gained from effectively implementing Asset Management are many and worthwhile. Although investment in an Asset Management project may not deliver an instant return, as the project starts to mature, opportunities to make savings will become apparent. IT Asset A Pocket Survival Guide is a quick reference style guide, addressing such serious issues with a fresh and pragmatic approach. Aimed at IT professionals who have been tasked with putting in place Asset Management disciplines, it first provides a commonsense introduction to the key processes outlined in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL(R)), before proceeding to explain the various milestones of an Asset Management project. It will guide the reader through building a hardware asset listing managing software asset inventory effectively, so compliance with software licences is achieved how to get senior management buy-in how to define, enforce and control procedures to manage IT assets more effectively for maximum savings.

53 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Martyn Hobbs has a degree in English Literature and the RSA Prep Cert TEFLA. He also taught in Italy and the UK for over 10 years, in a variety of business contexts, and then worked as a video script editor in ELT publishing for 10 years.

Apart from writing course books with his partner Julia Starr Keddle, he has written and developed many video projects, including New English File Intermediate, New Headway Intermediate, Spotlight 1–4 (Oxford University Press), Total English, Opportunities in Britain, Market Leader Intermediate (Pearson), and Inside Out (Macmillan).

Martyn also writes short stories for ELT (Helbling Languages and ELI) and is the winner of British Film Council / Screen South screenplay competition.