The Hardware Asset Register
The same discipline as the application register, applied to things you can hold. Ten fields, one owner, and a reconciliation nobody wants to run.
Procedure · 673 words
Hardware assets
The older discipline, and the one organisations are frequently worse at because it lapsed rather than never existed. Including what breaks when you can no longer walk to the device.
7 records · 4,946 words
Procurement and Receiving
The register is created or lost at the moment a device arrives. Everything downstream depends on a step that takes two minutes and is routinely skipped.
Procedure · 691 words
Assignment and Tracking
Who has what, recorded at the moment it changes hands. The failure is always reassignment, and it compounds silently.
Procedure · 679 words
Refresh Cycles and Replacement Planning
Replacing on a schedule costs more in capital and less in everything else. The arguments on both sides are real and the decision should be made explicitly.
Analysis · 680 words
Disposal and Data Sanitisation
The end of the lifecycle carries the largest data risk and the least attention. What to require of a disposal supplier and what evidence to keep.
Procedure · 734 words
Repairs, Warranty and Spares
Warranty status is a register field that saves real money, and it is almost never checked before a repair gets authorised. Plus the battery exception.
Reference · 735 words
Managing a Distributed Fleet
Devices you will never physically see change every assumption in asset management. What still works, what does not, and what to buy differently.
Analysis · 754 words