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Organizational Design Determines
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Higher Education + Technology = ACUTA
Telecom Management Success
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device that could be purchased by create some legal issues. Risk reducing
As a CIO, it is important for
• Professional networking at its best happens at the face-to-face Memployees. IT will need to determine policies must be developed.
me to be a part of a group of events and via the listserv/community. We provide opportunities to connect which devices it is able to support. • Responsibilities: Does
an employee ost enterprise telecom management
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people who strive to con nually evolve as knowledgeable with people who can help you succeed.
• Geo-Fencing: It may be that security, or using a device with corporate apps and
practices are comprised of
technology professionals.
• High-quality education features presenters at seminars and data use needs, require policies to gov- data have a responsibility to protect the multiple workgroups. One group
I know of no be er organiza on conferences who are experts in the eld.
ern devices used within prede ned geo- device? WhaBtyiTfimportehcyaCu.tCiolnwselal,rSeVnPoEtfit-aken is responsible for nance, one for
to be a part of than ACUTA.
Keith Fowlkes • Valuable publications bring critical information to you in a timely, graphical areas. Different regions gener- to protect thceiednecvy iFcires?t® Adoption – AOTMP
technical and network design, one for service
Director of Informaon Technology pro-active way.
• Rights: The legal rights of employees
ally have different laws.
(www.aotmp.com)
delivery and so on. In some cases, work ow
Services and CIO • Online resources give you access to solutions that will help you meet and organizations differ from country to
• Bandwidth Throttling: Organizations
between workgroups is synchronized and in
Centre College
the needs of your campus faculty, staff, and students.
country, so policy may have to be altered
must determine how to allocate employ-
other cases it is not. Independent of the degree
owner accountable for performance results.
• Professional development opportunities abound at ACUTA, ee demand for bandwidth across a broad
on a country-to-country basis.
of alignment between workgroups, an established
Establishing a practice owner formalizes telecom
giving you experiences that will help you grow professionally and advance your career.
swath of locations, roles and usage vol-
• Liability: Who is liable for the loss of pri-
telecom management owner accountable
management in the organization and enables
umes.
vate data when protocols are followed?
for the collective performance of all telecom
alignment of all work groups that contribute to
www.acuta.org • Business Support vs. Personal Support:
• Privacy: What measures will a company
management practices is necessary to guide
telecom management performance. Take the rst
Questions: Call Amy at (859) 278-3338.
Organizations must determine the extent
take to protect the privacy of the employee?
strategy and align workgroup action actions with
step towards optimizing the performance of your
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to which they are willing to provide
• Look for the second part of this article
desired results for the organization.
telecom management practice and formalize an
Connecting Campus IT Professionals with Ideas and Solutions
technical support for an employee-owned
where we will detail the next three essen-
e expense management segment of a
accountability structure that guides workgroup
device.
tials for a successful BYOD policy.
% alignment. ■
telecom management practice o ers a prime
• DeviceLoss:Devicelossortheftisafact
example of the necessity to establish a clear
of life. Therefore, an organization should
performance owner. TEM solutions are
have a plan for protecting (or wiping) a
commonly championed by a nancial group that
lost device.
seeks to automate invoice processing and invoice-
• Reimbursement: How will employees
Inc.
to-contract audit functions. Initially, nancial
be reimbursed for devices and/or data
Connect and Communicate
bene t is realized as audits are performed and
plans?
spend visibility is improved; however, telecom
environments are not static. Vendors, contracts,
Essential 3: Build a Legal Policy
services and assets are frequently introduced
Framework
A1 TELETRONICS DOES IT ALL!
or removed from the environment, which
Allowing employee-owned devices into
changes service inventory, asset inventory and
the work environment will undoubtedly
invoice elements. If work ow that governs
vendor, contract, service and asset change
is not harmonized with invoice processing
NanIdXinOvoNice-to-contract audit activities, then
invoice processing and audit accuracy are
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a ected, which may lead to errant payments and
to maintain operations. This means each
degradation in nancial accuracy. While the
piece of your internal network is still
impact of workgroup alignment may be clear,
TELECOM &
responsible for connecting you to vital
organic alignment is not commonly achieved
NETWORKING data, and can still present a liability when
WE BUY without de ned leadership from a single telecom
power problems occur, even though the
management owner.
data is off-site.
YOUR EXCESS
A critical factor for e ective and e cient
REPAIRS
Here are a few areas to consider when
PRODUCTS
telecom management is to establish a practice
moving to the cloud:
• IT & Network Infrastructure
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alone—modems, switches, hubs, routers,
wireless access points, and other network
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devices all work to maintain each per-
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should be itemized in an inventory to
Voice QoS, Multi WAN Redundancy, Content Filter and Network Security
depends on power to function properly.
provide service visibility. Even if the toll
When cloud storage is involved, les
free numbers do not have an itemized
are often saved locally before being
charge, usage against the numbers is
uploaded, and can be lost or corrupted
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into all toll free numbers supports
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