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Drive Ef ciency, Not Savings
GANGA
Higher Education + Technology = ACUTA
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hat is your top telecom
COLWELL
device that could be purchased by create some legal issues. Risk reducing
management priority for 2016? Is
As a CIO, it is important for
• Professional networking at its best happens at the face-to-face employees. IT will need to determine policies must be developed.
it tied to savings? Is your measure
me to be a part of a group of events and via the listserv/community. We provide opportunities to connect • Responsibilities: Does
an employee
which devices it is able to support.
of success the amount of money you will save this
By Timothy C. Colwell, SVP Ef -
people who strive to con nually evolve as knowledgeable with people who can help you succeed.
year?
ciency First® Adoption – AOTMP
• Geo-Fencing: It may be that security, or
using a device with corporate apps and
technology professionals.
• High-quality education features presenters at seminars and data use needs, require policies to gov-
data have a responsibility to protect the
Every year I speak with hundreds of
(www.aotmp.com)
I know of no be er organiza on conferences who are experts in the eld.
ern devices used within prede ned geo-
device? What if precautions are not taken enterprises about telecom management
to be a part of than ACUTA.
Keith Fowlkes • Valuable publications bring critical information to you in a timely, to protect the device?
graphical areas. Different regions gener-
strategy, obstacles to achieving success and
management processes; establish performance
Director of Informaon Technology pro-active way.
ally have different laws.
• Rights: The legal rights of employees
new opportunities to exploit. Many of these
measures that illustrate technical, operational
Services and CIO Centre College
• Online resources give you access to solutions that will help you meet • Bandwidth Throttling: Organizations
and organizations differ from country to
conversations gravitate towards the topic of
and nancial e ciency; improve visibility into
the needs of your campus faculty, staff, and students.
must determine how to allocate employ-
country, so policy may have to be altered
nancial savings. Identifying cost takeout,
telecom environment elements that provide a
• Professional development opportunities abound at ACUTA, ee demand for bandwidth across a broad
on a country-to-country basis.
eliminating nancial waste, clawing-back
clear understanding of cost drivers; and, gain
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-
overcharges paid out and securing lower service
deep understanding of business objectives
umes.
vate data when protocols are followed?
costs are typical savings themes mentioned.
supported by the telecom estate. ese actions
www.acuta.org • Business Support vs. Personal Support:
• Privacy: What measures will a company
While the goal of generating savings and
promote overall telecom management e ciency
Questions: Call Amy at (859) 278-3338.
Organizations must determine the extent
take to protect the privacy of the employee?
optimizing service-to-cost performance makes
and serve to identify and resolve the cause of
to which they are willing to provide
• Look for the second part of this article
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good business sense, the fact that the same
nancial excess. Fixing the problems that lead
technical support for an employee-owned
where we will detail the next three essen-
Connecting Campus IT Professionals with Ideas and Solutions
goal emerges on an annual basis signals a
to overspending is far more bene cial to the
device.
tials for a successful BYOD policy.
% business than chasing savings. n
fundamental underlying issue with execution;
• DeviceLoss:Devicelossortheftisafact
savings should decrease over time as root cause
of life. Therefore, an organization should
issues that lead to overspending are mitigated
have a plan for protecting (or wiping) a
and measures to prevent nancial excess are
lost device.
implemented.
• Reimbursement: How will employees
Inc.
Financial savings is the byproduct of upstream
be reimbursed for devices and/or data
Connect and Communicate
telecom management ine ciency. Periodic
plans?
belt tightening exercises are dictated by the
business, but if the perpetual goal of telecom
Essential 3: Build a Legal Policy
management is to generate savings, then broken
Framework
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processes, service delivery misalignment and lack
Allowing employee-owned devices into
of environment control are typically the cause
the work environment will undoubtedly
of nancial excess that warrants perpetual cost
savings initiatives. Correcting the issues that
drive excess cost is more valuable to the business
NthaInXcOonNtinuing a never ending overspend-spend
recovery cycle.
Continued from page 17
Dedicate e ort in 2016 to streamline telecom
to maintain operations. This means each
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charges?
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Upgrade your Router!
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to customers; however, USF charges are
SUPPORT
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negotiable and are not required to be
Voice QoS, Multi WAN Redundancy, Content Filter and Network Security
depends on power to function properly.
passed on to customers.
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regulatory agencies to notify
years. These are often found to have a dead
customers of all rate changes for service.
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basis as they may contain rate change
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