Integrate IT Departments - Evaluate Inventory & Communicate Changes

I recently spoke with Processor.com, an online information site that offers insight into software trends, products, and services. The topic of conversation highlighted the realities of business restructuring with a corporate acquisition and the issues organizations face. One of those impacts is the nightmare of dealing with integrating IT inventories.

When an organization acquires another firm, and the boss charges you with integrating the IT departments. To add acid to a bitter pill, most of your systems are different from theirs. How prepared are you to deal with such issues as hardware, software, and personnel.



Here are few top tips for consideration

• Build a small team of trusted, knowledgeable employees to assess systems in regard to which to keep and which to get rid of.


• Include both business and IT input when making decisions.


• Base tool choices on available skills, risk assessments, and vendor consolidation/management.


• Make sure you communicate what you are doing and also why you are doing it.

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