Your IT Growth Plan
Does your business have the right technology to take you to the next level?
Major benefits of having the right technology:
- automate your work/processes
- organize information that can help you understand customers, business, trends
- communicate with customers and prospects
Investing in technology is essential for any business to grow!
How will your business grow if…
- your process aren’t streamlined and require much labor and resources?
- you don’t have information at your fingertips to help you make quick business decisions?
- you have limited ways of communicating with customers or customer communications are limited because they are labor intensive?
All businesses outgrow their technology!
Jim’s Analogy: From Jake Widman for computerworld.com, “Like a child who always needs new clothes, your successful business will likely outgrow its IT outfit several times as it gets bigger. And in the same way that new parents learn coping skills from more experienced families, small and midsize businesses that want to ensure their IT infrastructure keeps pace with their growth can benefit from what big companies already know.”
Technology Strategy
For technology lessons for small businesses learned from large companies, we recommend a great article written by Jake Widman for computerworld.com entitled, Big IT to small biz: Listen up, little dudes! . The basic take-away are these 6 simple steps:
- Put it in your budget
- Plan your IT future
- Make IT part of management
- Take care of the basics
- Always on
- Choose your vendors wisely
At Direct Connect, we stay on top of technology industry trends and how large companies are utilizing technology for business growth. We pride ourselves on educating our small business customers so that they too can benefit from efficiencies gained from technology.
Technology Tactics
Our top list of technologies to facilitate small business growth include:
Telecommuting / remote access technologies
If you have turned your home or car into a secondary office, or if your business requires you to travel frequently, it’s important to have your computer system function properly from the remote location so you can quickly access your main office. Direct Connect can show you efficient and cost-effective ways to “work remotely”.
Software
Creating your own invoices in Excel? Bookkeeping in Excel? Writing paper notes about your customers and filing them? There are low cost applications/software and online services available for just about every business function. Why spend your valuable time on these manual tasks when software can do it for you? Direct Connect can help streamline your business by helping to select, install and integrate software that saves time and resources.
Contact us or call us at (216)382-4900 to help you develop your IT Growth Plan!
