Tech: Are you a small business looking to make use of information technology in the best way possible? Oftentimes this can be a large undertaking. Many business leaders agree that integrating modern IT is critical for survival within any organization, but the breadth and variety of options on the market might mean you begin to struggle with technology.
We asked TechQuarters, an IT support and managed service provider that operates in North London about the steps small businesses can take to get better with technology. As providers of IT support North London businesses have been using to great success for many years, TechQuarters had a few things to say on the matter. According to them, the most important thing for small businesses looking to manage their tech in the right way is to have the right guidance. Lacking guidance can lead businesses to be hasty with adopting new technologies, which could result in significant losses for the company. Below is what TechQuarters considers the best course of action for managing your tech as a business.
Invest In IT Support
If you are a small business struggling with tech, this might not seem like a very helpful piece of advice. But investing in IT support doesn’t necessarily mean doing all the legwork yourself. In fact, the most cost effective IT support solution for SMBs is outsourced IT support. Companies like TechQuarters specialize in providing small businesses with all the IT solutions and support that they need to function efficiently.
In partnering with a provider, you will be accessing enterprise-level IT expertise, and potentially round-the-clock support. For very small businesses, you will see a considerable cost-saving compared with hiring your own internal IT staff; and with a provider at your side, you will find further progress with your technology much easier.
The greatest benefit of partnering with an IT support provider is the opportunity for growth. Your provider will most likely have resources enough to support even larger companies than yours; this means the service they give you can be scaled up as your own company grows. What is more, most IT support providers are also managed service providers – this is a type of service that goes beyond simply providing IT support; a managed service provider will manage every aspect of a company’s information technology (including security, adopting new technologies, backup and disaster recovery, etc.)
Devise An IT Strategy
Several companies have fallen into the pitfall of attempting to incorporate new technology into their organization without developing the appropriate planning and adoption strategies – resulting in a poor integration and significant losses in terms of both resources and time.
This is precisely why every business looking to integrated new technologies needs to devise an IT strategy that lays out precisely whataspects of the business within the organization they are aiming to provide IT solutions for; how they plan to implement those IT solutions – including time frames, deadlines and milestones, for each stage of the project; the strategy should also include adoption strategies – in other words, how the IT department or provider will get everyone in the organization to start using the new IT solutions.
Consider Eliminating Solutions
Part of the purpose of devising an IT strategy is to identify what technologies the business really needs to have implemented. On the other hand, a business may have some technologies that they use much less, or which has proven difficult to use.
There may be new technologies that will definitely improve your business’ performance, but it is important to assess your current solutions before implementing new ones. You find that your business stands to save a considerable amount of money by eliminating unnecessary technologies. In this way, you can cut your tech use down to the critical solutions – thus saving on your tech budget, and streamlining your IT infrastructure, which will pave the way for growth and make implementing solutions in the future much easier and more effective.
