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I Advice - IT Asset Management - How Times Have Changed
Job searching alone is like hitchhiking a scary ride with an unknown stranger on a 180-mile long deserted, no-exit road with hopes you’ll make your destination. When you lack time or expertise to plan career moves carefully, sometimes the loss of ground is not apparent until years later. You can get trapped in a black hole and frustrated that your career is not advancing to full potential. Ever feel imprisoned in positions that lacked adequate reward, satisfaction, challenge or a future?There are many reasons for these job jails:• You’ve become too specialized.• You’ve become too generalized.• You failed to look ahead and plan for the future.• You held out too long hoping for the “right break.”• You accepted jobs that never made use of your best talents.• You remain too long in positions that offered no challenge or mobility.Use these seven job search marketing hacks and you’ll get in front of decision makers faster. What’s a “hack?” A “hack” is a clever solution to an interesting problem, so says the experts at O’Reilly Media, Inc., a leading-edge book publisher that offers cool technology workarounds on everything from navigating Google and eBay to digital photography and gaming. Hacks are the “down and dirty” of getting a task done. Your mission here is to get a great job, high on adventure, low on headache.Hack #1: Know the job market.Locate and
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organi
A dear friend and colleague once shared a secret to his success. Upon waking each morning, Ed Oakley, CSP, asks himself, “What question should I be running on today?” Ed uses that simple question to trigger his mind to reflect on his potential and frame his thoughts for the day ahead.In my work as a performance consultant to the top executives in the leisure industry today, I’ve seen firsthand how a simple tool, like asking the right questions, can help put you in the right mindset to master the challenges ahead and to take the reins on your future—to become the kind of employee that gets noticed and rewarded on the job.What questions should you ask to increase your chances for promotion and recognition? The following will help you to begin thinking about how you can put your career on the fast-track to success.1. Do I take responsibility for my mistakes? When something doesn’t go as planned on the job, admit your mistakes to your boss immediately and own the slip-ups. Try saying, “In retrospect, I think I should have done this differently.” or “Here’s how I can make the project better next time.” Your boss will appreciate your honesty and focus more quickly on what you’ve learned—instead of dwelling on what you did wrong.2. Do I know what drives my boss’s decisions? Before asking your boss for input, think about what information she will need to make a decision. If your boss is a numbers person, bring the data w
Over time, I began to earn more money through babysitting and odd jobs, but the ritual never changed – lock the door, open the safe and re-count my money. As I reflect, I think about the time I wasted re-counting my money but I also remember the delight I experienced each time as I dreamed and planned how to spend my dough! It would have been great to push a button and have a “piggy bank statement” printed at any time confirming that my money was where it should be and how much I had available. It would have been better still to earn “piggy interest” on my quarters! That would be real optimization!
These memories came flooding back to me when I was pondering the topic of IT Asset Management and how ineffectively some businesses track and manage PCs and other IT equipment. Demands for increased staff productivity and greater return on IT investments have pushed the need for better asset management and vital solutions.
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organiz
Reaching success in any endeavor requires many things. It doesn't matter if you're out to complete a project or you're working on accomplishing a big dream.One of the best things that you can do for yourself is to build a team to help you.If you're an employer, your staff is your team. When you're an entrepreneur, your accountant, your suppliers; they're all part of your team. If you're in a group environment and have been handed a project, look around and see who's on your team.As a entrepreneur, especially just starting out, you need a team. But how do you build one when you're on your own?First, look for champions. These are the people who have been where you are and know what you are or will go thru and have succeeded. Tell them of your dreams and goals. Ask for their help and advice. I have never met a champion that was unwilling to help when asked.Next, assess your own strengths and weaknesses. Once you know what you're up against, you have a clearer picture of what needs you have that another may be able to help fill. If you have no trouble generating paperwork but hate to file it, who can you go to for help.A spouse or children maybe. Maybe finding a secretary that can teach you office management shortcuts.A team helps to generate ideas that will move you forward. They can also point out potential problems to be worked out.A team will
Over time, I began to earn more money through babysitting and odd jobs, but the ritual never changed – lock the door, open the safe and re-count my money. As I reflect, I think about the time I wasted re-counting my money but I also remember the delight I experienced each time as I dreamed and planned how to spend my dough! It would have been great to push a button and have a “piggy bank statement” printed at any time confirming that my money was where it should be and how much I had available. It would have been better still to earn “piggy interest” on my quarters! That would be real optimization!
These memories came flooding back to me when I was pondering the topic of IT Asset Management and how ineffectively some businesses track and manage PCs and other IT equipment. Demands for increased staff productivity and greater return on IT investments have pushed the need for better asset management and vital solutions.
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organi
Does your staff really know and understand what you are talking about? If the company directive is to improve speed, does the staff understand doesn't that mean sacrifice quality? Often times as leaders, we know what we mean, but the managers and staff might have a very different idea. Did you know the word 'set' has over 460 different definitions?While attending a CHART conference last year, guest speaker Shep Hyken had the group write down nine words they associated with the word ‘run.' He then had us compare lists with one other person. A simple word we all know, but the majority of the group matched either none or one word with the other person. The point of the exercise? Be specific with direction and guidance.For example, when the direction is ‘greet the guest,' the staff could interpret that as:“For here or to-go?”“Next.”“Can I take your order?”“Delivery or carry-out?” While it might appear to many that these phrases are ‘greetings,' they aren't the ones you want your people using—not if you're trying to enhance service, anyway. The staff, however, hears these at many of the competitors and believes this is the way to properly greet the guest. Similar scenarios happen for suggestive selling (“Anything else?,” “You don't want to upsize that, do you?,” “Is that all?”), delivering the food (“Here's your food,” “#54,” “Burger with fries.”
These memories came flooding back to me when I was pondering the topic of IT Asset Management and how ineffectively some businesses track and manage PCs and other IT equipment. Demands for increased staff productivity and greater return on IT investments have pushed the need for better asset management and vital solutions.
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organi
Does your website increase confusion or does it reduce confusion.Remember confused people do not buy; they go looking for more information.Your job is to give them that information, or at least enough information to give them the confidence to buy your product. You must convince your customers that your product will solve their problem.You do this by providing factual, focused web content and web copy. What’s the difference between web content and web copy?Web copy is the sales pitch, while web content educates or entertains your customer. That doesn’t mean that your web copy can’t or shouldn’t educate your customer, just that web content shouldn’t be a pure sales pitch.A great example of this is a white paper. A white paper provides your customers with the information to understand what is needed.They need to understand how your product benefits them, how it solves their problem. Your white paper may even identify a problem they didn’t know existed.If your white paper has identified a need, your web copy can make an emotional appeal for the sale.Another example of this is a targeted marketing article published on your website. Where a white paper may tackle a complete subject and take several pages, articles cover a specific piece of the subject.Breaking the subject into segments allows you to fully exploit each angle of the story, keeping your
These memories came flooding back to me when I was pondering the topic of IT Asset Management and how ineffectively some businesses track and manage PCs and other IT equipment. Demands for increased staff productivity and greater return on IT investments have pushed the need for better asset management and vital solutions.
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organi
New England area is experiencing some good economic rebounding finally. Those markets, which involve larger consumer items are finding life a little tough, smaller manufacturers are waiting for orders and everyone is waiting on cash flow in the New England rural areas and cities under 150,000 which is nearly every city in NH, VT and ME and that 85% of the cities (calling a city that which is over 10K pop.) in CT, RI and MA. In some NH cities those involved in custom manufacturing are talking in terms of a “Train Wreck” when discussing the economic calamity. They were being promised by the Democrats who wanted a good showing in the NH primaries complete economic recovery, not sure how that was going to happen. Why is politics so important to these issues? Well because the rhetoric and bullshit has a lot to do with consumer sentiment and spending behavior. Since Summer is here now the New England area is happy to have the big events such as Bike Week, which brings in 2 million dollars to local rural areas. The forth of July will also help out. The charge of customers always come out of the wood work for Memorial Day with excellent cooperation on weather. One regional factory store group has been very excited as were the regional malls and Lobster tail and hotdog carts on board walks and tourist areas.The restaurants have not seen a huge rebound and the hotel industry now that weather is better are feeling a little safer but they feel th
Recently, I sat in the office of a large organization discussing this very subject with an IT manager. When I asked him if he had ever analyzed the use of software in his organization his reply was “We don’t really care if the software deployed on our standard image is used or not, it’s just easier to support if we give everyone all of the applications.”
I shook my head; I’ve heard this rational before, in fact, I’ve used it myself in the past. What I’ve learned since then has changed my way of thinking regarding costs and efficiencies.
Some IT managers believe that software licensing concerns are simplest to address by using a standard corporate image (a PC configured with standard software applications deployed to all users within the corporation). While it may seem simpler, one must ask “what happens to standardization once that PC has been delivered to the end user?” I’ll tell you, in many organizations the end user immediately begins to alter the standard image to the point there is no longer any homogeny within the business assets.
My second question is this, “why pay for software that isn’t needed or used?” Besides, why on earth would you continue to pay expensive maintenance on software that isn’t beneficial to the company? Experts
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