Stop Managing Endpoints
Develop a plan to exit endpoint management; instead, deliver applications and services to any endpoint.
- Traditional endpoint management is becoming difficult and costly. Trends like BYOD and consumerization increase the number and variety of devices used for work, complicating their management. While more efficient methods exist, too many organizations have become comfortable with the status quo.
- Endpoint management is not becoming simpler; as organizations continue to grow and become more complex, the difficulties managing individual endpoints by the IT department will continue to rise.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- There are better options. With the right technology and processes, hands-on management of endpoint devices is no longer necessary.
- The end goal should be endpoint agnosticism: the ability to access critical applications and services from any device.
Impact and Result
- Technologies such as desktop virtualization, application virtualization, the cloud, and enterprise mobility management can help free up resources that are essentially wasted on managing endpoints.
- Both users and IT benefit: users can flexibly work from a variety of endpoints, and IT reduces spending and effort that can be better used elsewhere.
- Come out of this blueprint with a business case that will clearly outline an endpoint management exit plan.
Workshop: Stop Managing Endpoints
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: The Case For Exiting Endpoint Management
The Purpose
- Assess your current endpoint management and identify a pilot group.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identification of issues with the current endpoint management state, in order to begin planning for improvement.
Activities
Outputs
Review the first section of the storyboard
- Current state summary
Work on an end-user satisfaction survey
- End-user survey draft
Begin creating a business case for exiting endpoint management
- Identification of a pilot group
Module 2: Summarize Current State and Assess Readiness
The Purpose
- Determine your readiness for exiting endpoint management.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A recommendation for moving forward (or not) with an endpoint management exit plan, to help make the business case for changes.
Activities
Outputs
Completion of the Stop Managing Endpoints Readiness Assessment
- A go/no-go recommendation for a pilot test
Updating the endpoint management exit plan business case
- An updated business case
Module 3: Set Reduced Endpoint Management Targets and Goals for Alternatives
The Purpose
- Identify, analyze, and prioritize goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear steps for how to accomplish goals related to reduced endpoint management.
Activities
Outputs
Review popular endpoint management goals
- Completed Endpoint Management Goal Analysis Tool
Comparison of goals to current state
- An updated business case with a rough plan for moving forwad with a pilot test
Identification of steps needed to reach goals
Module 4: Identify Gaps and Develop an Action Plan
The Purpose
- Finalize your business case with TCO and infrastructure requirements and a timeline.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A finalized business case for moving forward with a pilot test.
Activities
Outputs
Complete the Stop Managing Endpoints TCO Calculator
- An estimated TCO of getting out of endpoint management, in comparison with the current situation
Review effects of the plan on staff and end users
- A timeline for implementing a pilot test
Update business case with final touches and a timeline
- A completed business case
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Assess your current endpoint state, survey users, and identify a pilot group
Start by summarizing your current state to see how it can be improved. Use Info-Tech’s tools and templates to summarize your current state and develop a plan for getting input from users.
- Call 2: Determine your readiness for exiting endpoint management
Make sure you are ready to continue. Analyze your current state information and use Info-Tech’s tools to determine how ready you are for getting out of endpoint management.
- Call 3: Brainstorm goals
Turn brainstormed goals into practical action steps that can help you reach your goals.
- Call 4: Finalize your business case
Add the final details to your business case. Calculate TCO, then consider how changes to endpoint management will affect users and the makeup of your IT department. Finally, review your completed business case.
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