Author Archives: Christian Bjorkly-Nordstrom

Christian Björkly-Nordström (CSAM) has worked as an IT project manager for the last 15 years, in a variety of business areas and businesses, with the majority being in the areas of technology-instigated-change. As such he has frequently rolled out new & updated software, in which licensing concerns had to be addressed. This fostered an interest in the licensing particulars, which led to a consulting assignment at Saab, where he happily still works on SAM strategies, audits, software provisioning and improving the asset management practice. As a former naval officer, the choice of working in security and defense industry came natural.

Assets! Assets! Assets!

Christian Bjorkly-Nordstrom April 16, 2019

Assets, assets, assets!!! Prologue: Assets that are disregarded (as such) Please read the following statements below and answer; Yes or No as you see fit, please remember your answers for later. Statement 1: All the Corporate Assets in your business managed by named and framed (accountable) resources only, expensive and cheap alike? Yes / No Statement 2: Are informed business ...

SAM reporting – what do you report from your SAM universe?

Christian Bjorkly-Nordstrom March 16, 2017

You are capital C Compliant, managing users licensing needs, control your vast software estate proactively? Sounds fab, but if no-one in management know you are doing great, or share your fears due to license rule changes, where will you get your support or encouragement from? Or said this way: What reports and data do you furnish your leaders with so ...

Bought a SAM Tool but it’s not Up and Running (Yet)?

Christian Bjorkly-Nordstrom March 24, 2016

Sitting pretty with a new and possibly expensive SAM tool, but once implemented, for some reason it has stopped dead in its tracks. The compliance and cover looks bad, even though you know that is not the case in real life. To admit this is like saying you were given Jay Z’s yacht for free, but have no idea how ...