{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Operational ITAM Podcast","title":"Welcome to Operational ITAM: Know What You Own","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":779,"description":"Thirty years in enterprise IT, distilled into four questions every asset program has to answer.\nThe pilot episode. Host Bill Van Nort opens the series with three decades of enterprise IT leadership behind him — banking, mortgage, automotive — and a straightforward thesis: buried inside a boring-sounding phrase are millions of dollars, real career leverage, and some of the best war stories in enterprise technology.\nThis episode establishes the four fundamentals every program must answer: know what you have, know where it is, know what it costs, know when it leaves. Bill explains why asset management is ultimately a trust discipline rather than an inventory discipline, states his biases up front — evidence over enthusiasm, customer over publisher, simple over clever — and previews the season ahead.\nPlus: a listener question from Mike in Columbus on what to do when leadership says an ITAM tool isn't in the budget.\nIN THIS EPISODE\n- Why nobody notices asset management until it's broken\n- The four fundamentals: know what you have, where it is, what it costs, when it leaves\n- Why IT asset management is really about trust, not assets\n- How the same fifteen questions wear two hundred different outfits\n- Starting an ITAM program with no tool and no budget\n- What license compliance actually costs when nobody is keeping score\n- The show's format, biases, and what's coming this season\nCHAPTERS\nTRANSCRIPT\nFURTHER READING\nISO/IEC 19770-1 — IT Asset Management Systems standard\nhttps://www.iso.org/standard/68531.html\nIAITAM — International Association of IT Asset Managers\nhttps://www.iaitam.org\nLISTENER CASE FILES\nGot a situation you'd like worked on air? Send it over — anonymized, sanitized, no company names. Real constraints, real politics, real budgets. operationalitam.com\nABOUT THE SHOW\nOperational ITAM is a podcast about the unglamorous machinery of enterprise technology — hardware and software asset management, licensing, audit defense, SaaS governance, and the money...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nFlbExxNnhzrwnSlx4jBvKVGVnnfmon8-1VE92EQptA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NjA4/YzdhOWJhZjcyZjYw/ZTY3Y2E1OTM1NTc2/N2M2Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}