If your organisation has a fleet of mobile devices – smartphones, laptops, tablets – then it’s time to get serious about the environmental and cost implications.
A typical corporate fleet of 1,000 devices can represent over $1,000,000 of physical asset, but is often not treated like other million-dollar assets. How you sweat this asset, and avoid wasting its financial potential, can have a material impact on your bottom line.
Mobile technology devices use many limited natural resources in their construction, many of which are also detrimental to the environment if not recycled. Make sure your Managed Mobility Services provider offers repair services for broken or damaged devices. Most importantly, ensure that certified device recycling is part of your supplier’s device lifecycle management. Recycling not just reduces environmental waste, it also monetises depreciated assets, giving an extra boost to your finances.
“That new hire starting tomorrow needs a phone, so send someone to the phone shop to get one.” Over-procurement of mobile devices is rife in large organisations. Its flip-side, unused devices left in drawers from long-gone employees, is equally wasteful and unnecessary. Check that your provider has structured systems to enforce procurement processes, as well as continuous fleet audit capabilities to identify and recoup idle devices.
Keeping track of all your devices can be tough. Like an organisation that was buying almost $1m of mobile devices each year, all asset-recorded and issued to staff… but almost 20% of these newly-ordered devices had never been used! (And yes, that really happened.)
Device recycling and device utilisation address two key aspects of the ESG model: the Circular Economy and the War on Waste. To learn more about the ESG model as it relates to mobile devices, check out our earlier explainer article.
But the equally important reason to care is financial. Sweating your mobile device assets, both during their in-service life and at their end-of-life, represents real money.
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