Operational Systems · Tooling · Component
The tool inventory
What the organisation actually runs on — including everything acquired by a team without anyone else knowing.
The deliverable
What it is
Most organisations run on more tools than anyone can list, because acquisition is easy and retirement is nobody’s job.
The inventory is generated rather than remembered — from expenses, from single sign-on, from network traffic — because the memory version is always incomplete.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The cost
What each tool costs, including the parts that are not the subscription.
3 attributes: Annual cost · Active users · Administration time
LearnThe overlaps
Where several tools do the same job.
3 attributes: Overlapping job · Tools involved · Consequence
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Generate the inventory from expenses and sign-on records. The remembered version is always incomplete.
The other components in tooling
The fit assessment
How well each tool matches the process it supports — and where the process bent to fit the tool instead.
LearnThe retirement plan
What is being switched off, when, and what has to move before it can be — because adopting without retiring is how tool sprawl happens.
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