Business Technology Asset Management: How SaaS is Going to Cost a Bundle!

Listen in as Al Plastow discusses how software as a service is going to cost your company more money while taking away your control over the software you depend on. This quick audio excerpt was taken from a Business Technology Consumer Network software life cycle management training session.

The subject matter includes:

• Loss of perpetual licenses,

• Increased costs due to yearly software “rental,”

• Denial of service for non compliance...

Software Asset Management (SAM) is one of the core professional service areas within the over-all scope of enterprise Technology Portfolio Management (TPM). Virtually any company, of any size, could reduce the costs of business technologies by as much as 25%-30% through simple low cost changes to the business processes governing technology spending.

Click to listen to this 30 second audit cut: Business technology: How SaaS is going to cost you more—in cash and in lost control over tech!

It's Al in your head! (Now, THAT is a chilling thought...)

Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of the Way!

Every time I teach a course, be it software life cycle management, asset management, project management, negotiations, or some related business process improvement content, I run into the same problem. Way too many of the people attending the course make the same comment:

Committment: Our company wants to improve the way we do (this or that) but, when it comes down to actually making the move, there isn't any executive support--no follow-through.

I'm sure you've seen this, too. The enterprise--as a whole--is aware that there are more effective ways to accomplish certain tasks or projects, but it has no formal process for approaching, planning, and implementing a change initiative. What's more, executive management--leadership?--does not, or will not, take a visible role in enacting the business process improvement or change. THIS is where my title content comes into play.

My politically incorrect message to management is this:
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of The Way!

Result? How many times have you heard the lament:

Employee Quote: "I spent the time and effort attending this training, or that seminar, (or the company spend the money) and identified a specific way (or two, or ten) that we could improve business processes in our company. Then, when I came back to work, I wasn't encouraged (permitted?) to make anything happen."

In this tough economy--in ANY economy--a company lives and/or dies by its abilities--its willingness--to evolve. To read more of this post, go HERE