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Opportunity Cost in ITAM: What Idle Assets Could Have Funded

Every budget line is a choice not to fund something else. The Idea Opportunity cost is the value of the best alternative you give up when you commit a resource. It never shows up on an invoice, which is exactly why it gets ignored. In ITAM Terms Your budget, your team’s hours, and your data […]

Why Economics Belongs in ITAM

You already manage economic decisions. This series gives you the language to prove it. ITAM professionals make economic calls every day. Deciding whether to renew or retire, buy or subscribe, consolidate or diversify: each one is a trade-off between cost, value, risk, and time. Most of us learned to make those calls through experience rather […]