Hello,
I am looking for suggestions, metrics, things to report to leadership in our governance meeting that is related to Hardware asset management. What do they want to know? We have many metrics that we use to track the health of our assets, but not sure if they would want to see every single one of them, Thanks for your feedback!
Hi Dina,
Nice to see you again! I’ll start with a rundown of topics you might consider – let’s start with some financials - and I’ll offer some views to slice these into manageable/understandable chunks – also, some of these may not fit what you’re looking for, as some orgs don’t use all approaches - these are in no particular order of importance:
HW Leases expiring in the Fiscal or Calendar Year (and perhaps at a quarterly or even monthly breakdown)----- Break those down by Equipment Type, Support Group, Owner, Location, ,etc
— Summarize by value & if possible estimate approved budget for replacement, or if extending those leases is a planned cost - or if buying after lease is the planned effort.
End of Life devices - how many devices in Production or in Inventory are beyond their formal support dates, or even truly end of life by the manufacturer – you can include some Risk calcs there
New purchases - summarize the volume, costs, locations of newly acquired equipment during the timeframe.
Inventory – on hand/available equipment type, location, value on the books, run rates/turnover - spend
Audits – how many equipment audits you’ve accomplished in the last 6-12 months, by location, team etc
Disposals - equipment type/model, location, value on the books, if anything was re-sold, Donations,
Reuse- try to capture and display info on how many hardware assets were re-deployed - it shows cost savings, instead of buying something new, you re-used equipment that was retired or returned to stock, which saved $.
Loaners - show how many devices were loaned out, what the avg duration is, and associate that with a positive correlation to reduced downtime for your employees. Show trends on loans if you can as well.
There are a variety of other options as well tied to specific asset tools or concepts like CMDB that might be options, but this will probably get you started
James
Hi,
I agree with James. This really depends on what is important to your upper management. There is a lot that can be tracked.
We track how many devices we repurpose as this is something that our leadership is very interested in seeing.
We also track
Here’s what I ask my team to report on monthly.
Clean up/Flags:
#Users with more than one laptop listed
#HW assigned to departed employees
HTH!