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Often in larger corporations - those with multiple offices, branches - we see a decentralization of corporate culture that leads to the erosion of standardized practices. The end result? A company with mismanaged IT functions that are getting, at best, half of the performance they could from their systems. We see it most often when companies merge, where a lack of communication between individual business units causes processes to become ineffective. A lack of resources is often an issue in these cases as well; the organization is concerned with combining assets and getting employees functioning and productive, leaving IT asset management on the back burner.

In many cases, we have even seen an organization duplicate efforts - deploying the same or similar products simultaneously in different locations. The importance of IT asset management is especially important in organizations that are undergoing extreme change. Money, time and human resources are sure to be wasted when combining assets across a multinational company.

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