ITAM Professional Development Standards vs ITAM Process Standards

 

The TAMBOK was developed because the practitioner members of The Institute identified a need to separate the process of building an asset management initiative from the process of becoming an asset management practitioner. The BOK was also developed to transfer guidance of professional development programming for prospective asset managers out of the hands of proprietary suppliers and into the hands of the practitioners where it belongs. The TAMBOK is an attempt to simplify a series of processes and procedures that have been permitted to become prohibitively complex as well as priced beyond the reach of the average enterprise or practitioner.

 

The TAMBOK as a Professional Development Course Guideline

 

Of more importance, the TAMBOK is designed to establish a baseline of information for use in developing non proprietary training programs and standardizing testing. This changes the current trend of all asset management training and certification programs representing mutually exclusive proprietary content owned or operated by non practitioners and/or industry suppliers.

 

The Institute practitioner members have repeatedly identified training programs that are focused on goals & objectives that are not compatible with effective IT asset management methodologies. The TAMBOK allows practitioners to instantly identify "less than effective" training opportunities with a simple glance at their course content outline. If the training program does not include effective coverage of one or more TAMBOK competencies, processes, and/or procedures, that may be a sign that the course is less than desirable.

 

The TAMBOK is Both Strategic & Tactical

 

Too often in the technology asset management industry, we find that the focus is on short term solutions to long term issues. In a world where it's all too easy to gloss over reality with a surface shine of results, the TAMBOK reaches beyond the glitter. The Institute's TAMBOK is designed for use as a modified "force multiplier," building a strong infrastructure--either of the individual practitioner capabilities, or of the enterprise initiatives. As each TAMBOK competency is put into play, the over-all strength of the initiative becomes multiplied--both in the short term, as in the application of specific knowledge to immediate needs--and in the long term, as in the ways in which knowledge applied translates into the strong foundations of well developed supportive infrastructure.

As you may have come to expect, The Institute for Technology Asset Management is the first in the industry to recognize the power of these concepts when translated into reducing costs and risks and extended into enhanced return on the funds invested in IT infrastructure management.