Knowledge pillar
IT Asset Management
Equipment lifecycle, surplus technology management and enterprise hardware reuse. What happens between a refresh decision and a pallet leaving the building — and where value is usually lost.
Why lifecycle management decides value
By the time equipment reaches TAR, most of its remaining value has already been decided. Not by the market, but by choices made months earlier: whether the refresh was planned or reactive, whether accessories were kept with their machines, whether storage was pulled and mixed, whether anything was recorded.
This pillar covers those decisions from the perspective of someone who receives the result.
The three moments that matter
- The refresh decision. Planned refreshes produce consistent, complete, well-described equipment. Reactive ones produce mixed pallets nobody can identify.
- The decommission. The point at which rails, caddies, chargers, transceivers and stands either stay with their equipment or disappear.
- The handover. Whether the receiving party is told what is actually in the shipment.
In this pillar
Supporting articles
Which IT equipment is worth selling rather than scrapping?
Servers, enterprise storage, business laptops, networking and components almost always justify evaluation before scrapping. How to tell the difference.
02How are bulk IT assets evaluated?
Bulk IT assets are evaluated on category, generation, condition, completeness, consistency, quantity and landed cost. What each factor actually changes.
Put it into practice
Reading about it is one thing.
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