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Device price increases usually get treated as a budget problem. Ira Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at MCPC®, sees a ...
10/27/2026

Device price increases usually get treated as a budget problem. Ira Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at MCPC®, sees a chain that runs much further than the budget.

"Higher prices mean fewer new devices. Fewer new devices mean an older fleet. An older fleet fails more often, and longer lifecycles reliably mean higher failure rates. More failures put more load on an IT team that isn't growing. And a stretched team has less time to find the friction nobody reports."

That last link is the costly one. Tickets get counted. The slow login, the workaround, and the laptop someone quietly gave up on do not.

Keeping devices longer can be the right call. It holds up when the plan covers what years four and five bring: spares on hand, faster repair turnaround, and device data that flags trouble before anyone files a ticket.

Employee devices are almost always specified for the person who receives them first. Few requirements ask who will use t...
10/27/2026

Employee devices are almost always specified for the person who receives them first. Few requirements ask who will use the device next. The second life is then left to chance.

Buying with the second user in mind means deciding the redeployment path before the purchase: whether the device moves from a corporate desk to a field location, or from a specialist role to a general one.

For the devices that will go on to a second user, specify to the harder of the two assignments: durability built for the field, and a configuration that serves both roles without over-serving either. Whoever writes the requirements owns that call, with IT and finance.

Buying for the second user is one of five buying decisions that set a device's second life. The full article covers all five and who owns each one. Link in the comments.

When an employee leaves, someone has to get the laptop back. In many organizations that job falls to the departing emplo...
10/26/2026

When an employee leaves, someone has to get the laptop back. In many organizations that job falls to the departing employee's manager, alongside everything else that week, and the laptop comes back late, without its charger, or not at all.

That moment sets the device's value. Used devices are priced on condition, and condition is fixed at the point of return. A device that comes back complete and on time can be redeployed or resold. One that comes back months later, or never, has already lost much of its value.

An offboarding process that treats device return as a checklist item with a named owner produces a very different result than one left to chance. HR leaders may not think of their exit process as a line in device economics, but it is, and it is one they control.

The return process is one of five decisions that set a device's second life, and it is the one HR owns outright. The full article covers all five. Link in the comments.

A device can only go to a second user if the organization is certain it carries nothing from the first user. When that c...
10/21/2026

A device can only go to a second user if the organization is certain it carries nothing from the first user. When that certainty is missing, destruction becomes the default, and a device that could have served for years becomes recyclable material instead.

Most data policies are written for the most sensitive systems, then applied to every device. A policy that sets requirements by data classification, requiring destruction where the risk warrants it and permitting certified wiping where it does not, keeps far more hardware in circulation without lowering the standard for anything sensitive.

Choosing hardware that can be sanitized is one of five buying decisions that set a device's second life. The full article covers all five and who owns each one. Link in the comments.

A device fleet rarely grows to fifteen models on purpose. It gets there one reasonable exception at a time, until the va...
10/20/2026

A device fleet rarely grows to fifteen models on purpose. It gets there one reasonable exception at a time, until the variety costs more than any single exception was worth.

Every additional model means another set of spare parts, another configuration for the support team to learn, and a smaller, less valuable lot when devices are eventually resold.

A managed catalog, with an owner and a review cadence, is what keeps the exception process from quietly becoming the fleet plan.

Standardizing the fleet is the first of five buying decisions that set a device's second life. The full article covers all five and who owns each one. Link in the comments.

Most device requirements cover price, spec, warranty and delivery date. Almost nothing in them addresses a device's seco...
10/19/2026

Most device requirements cover price, spec, warranty and delivery date. Almost nothing in them addresses a device's second life. Five things to think about before your next employee device purchase:

• Standardize the fleet. Fewer models means more redeployment paths, simpler parts and stronger resale value.
• Buy for the second user, not only the first. Measure cost per usable year, not cost per unit.
• Score repairability like price. If a device cannot be repaired, every failure is a replacement.
• Negotiate the exit at entry. Trade-in terms, take-back and warranty transfer are easiest to negotiate before you sign.
• Choose hardware that can be sanitized. A data policy that permits certified wiping where risk allows keeps far more hardware in circulation.

Each of these is decided at purchase, and each has an owner outside IT. The full article covers who that is and what changes when the decision is made on purpose. Link in the comments.

Choosing the laptops your employees use every day is a significant circular-economy decision for any organization, thoug...
10/14/2026

Choosing the laptops your employees use every day is a significant circular-economy decision for any organization, though it is not always recognized as one.

That is because circular thinking usually starts at the other end, with a recycling vendor or a take-back program. Those steps help, but they come late. Whether a device gets a second life, and what that life looks like, is settled years earlier, in the purchase decisions that chose the device and the terms it arrived on.

Our latest article covers the five decisions that set a device's second life before it arrives, and who in the organization owns each one. Link in the comments.

Mobility programs usually stall for the same reason — and it isn't the technology.The fleet grows faster than the struct...
10/12/2026

Mobility programs usually stall for the same reason — and it isn't the technology.

The fleet grows faster than the structure managing it. What breaks is everything around the devices: ownership that was never clearly assigned, policies applied inconsistently across device types, and an IT team managing mobile devices on top of an already full plate.

The result is a program that's technically live but never mature. Devices are enrolled, but visibility is partial and support is reactive.

Getting unstuck takes less new technology and more structure:
1. 𝗔 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿. Someone accountable for the mobility program end to end.
2. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 across every device type, not just the easy ones.
3. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗲𝘁 — because enrollment grows automatically, but support doesn't.

The organizations that get this right treat mobility as a managed program, not a side task for an already stretched IT team.

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When an employee's device fails, the IT department generally has two choices: repair it or replace it. In practice, this...
10/12/2026

When an employee's device fails, the IT department generally has two choices: repair it or replace it. In practice, this decision isn't made during the crisis, it is locked in at the moment of purchase.

A device with accessible components and a dependable parts supply gets repaired. One that cannot be opened without damage, or that needs parts only the manufacturer sells, gets replaced.

At purchase, three questions are worth asking: are the components accessible, will parts and documentation remain available and for how long, and is repair allowed by anyone besides the manufacturer. IT and finance can turn the answers into a weighted repairability criterion built into the evaluation.

Scoring repairability like price is one of five buying decisions that set a device's second life.

The full article covers all five and who owns each one. Link in the comments.

A point-of-sale terminal in a store is an IT asset. So is the subscription still renewing without a clear owner, the mob...
10/07/2026

A point-of-sale terminal in a store is an IT asset. So is the subscription still renewing without a clear owner, the mobile device on a cellular plan, and the tablet a hospital unit tracks on its list.

None of those show up on the same list twice. IT sees laptops and servers. For finance, the same object is a purchase to depreciate. Security only cares whether it can reach the network. Each list is accurate for its own job and incomplete for everyone else's.

A shared definition has to reach past hardware into cloud services, connected devices, and specialized equipment that belongs to no single department. That is where a hardware-only inventory stops, and where the gap starts.

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