ITIL® v4 Specialist: IT Asset Management

Understand the Key Concepts of IT Asset Management (ITAM)
Identify the purpose, PSFs, and value of the IT Asset Management (ITAM) practice.
Apply iterative and interdependent scoping to IT asset types and IT asset register.
Understand the benefits of standard IT assets.
Understand the IT Asset Management (ITAM) relationship with governance, compliance, and policies of the organisation.
Apply an organisation’s sustainability objectives to IT Asset Management (ITAM).
Identify the key challenges of IT Asset Management (ITAM).

Understand IT Asset Management (ITAM) Value Streams & Processes
Understand the roles and relationships of service value streams, practices, and processes in creation of value.
Identify the value of a common approach to IT asset lifecycle management.
recognise the sustainability aspects of IT asset decommissioning and disposal actions.
Know how to verify, audit, and analyse IT assets.
Understand the critical nature of records and documentation to IT asset lifecycle management.
Know how to integrate IT Asset Management (ITAM) in the organisation’s value streams.
Identify the relationship between IT Asset Management (ITAM) and the service configuration management practice.

Understand IT Asset Management (ITAM) Roles, Skills & Organisational Solutions
Understand the key skills required for IT Asset Management (ITAM).
Describe the responsibilities of IT Asset Manager, License Manager, IT Asset Owner, IT Asset Custodian and IT Asset Consumer.
Know how to apply the LACMT model to IT Asset Management (ITAM) activities.
Know how to position IT Asset Management (ITAM) within an organisational structure.

Understand how Information & Technology Supports & Enables IT Asset Management (ITAM)
Identify the key inputs and outputs of the IT Asset Management (ITAM) practice.
Describe the key IT Asset Management (ITAM) automation tools and their role in the practice.

Understand the Role of Partners & Suppliers in IT Asset Management (ITAM)
Understand the types of service relationships (basic, cooperative, partnership).
Understand the complexity of service relationships.
Describe a consistent approach to IT Asset Management (ITAM) across the organisation’s ecosystem.

Know How to Develop IT Asset Management (ITAM) Organisational Capabilities
Understand the key concepts of the ITIL® maturity model: capability assessment, capability levels and criteria.
Know how to apply capability criteria to plan IT Asset Management (ITAM) capability development.
Identify key metrics and methods for improving IT Asset Management (ITAM) capabilities.
Apply the key steps of the IT Asset Management (ITAM) capability development.