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6 Ways to Manage IT Growth

So an article I just read recently in computer world by Jake Wedman entitled Discover Our six Smart Ways to Grow Small Business IT. And the kind of the headline and then says, “Discover few of the lessons your big business peers learn the hard way about managing world.” So here’s one of the things right here since businesses want to grow which is true small businesses will become mini size businesses. And this size of business will become big. And like a child who always outgrows his new clothes your successful business will likely outgrow with the IT if several times before it gets bigger for that so true. So here’s some tips that can help you manage IT growth, and I think this is real good. Number one. Put IT on your budget. It’s time for cash track companies especially young ones, but this is crucial. To make sure IT has enough money no space in your IT budget quite frankly most small business don’t know how to budget their plan for IT. Alright, so the bottom line it took you for right here. The advise is budget 10 to 15% of salary per employee on IT, and that’s a good kind of general guideline have a number you put against the wall when you’re kind of planning on your IT budget. Number two. Plan your IT future because a lot of small companies don’t plan for their future rather what they are doing is planning for replacement of equipment. So they are really buying to fill a gap. The problem is you end up with having dismissed smash of operating systems hard ware and software because you’ve been just kind of trying to replaced what you already have rather than investing in something that has more head room and can be expanded to the future, so that can be a dangerous situation to get into in the future, so you want to keep that in mind. And finally, make IT well not final but make IT part of management. Your IT influence extends beyond just buying the equipment set up to software and configuring users. The small business owner has to think of IT as a part of the management team include them in discussions about what the business is going and work what his doing, so involving IT managers early in the discussions right? About the business direction allows them the opportunity to meet the businesses expectations in forms such as timing and cost. Now this is one of the things. So I think that’s very good common sense advice. Take care of basics. Part of knowing how to allocate your IT budget is understanding what has to work, so apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs unto your IT budget, so the lowest level of pyramid is the psychological need or physiological needs of the food and water well, that’s kind of a new operation. Apply that to your operation and discussion things like email, security, data back up all these sort of things disaster recovery, reliability of your internet connection. These are types of things that will kill you if they fail. Some of these are just like the heat in your house. They operate in the background or pay attention to them until they fail out and all of the sudden you’ve got a major issue. One of the things we like electricity use them all day everyday and they have to work when you call on them, so make sure you take care of those things right there. A fellow by the name of Baschabb states that, “One side of your common needs as a small company are not going to be really different in terms of sophistication and the big one. The difference is just on the scale.” So keep that in mind, I think that’s really, really solid advice. Another good point is to choose your vendors wisely. I think this is another life you're going to save, “We already know that Bruce.” Just reinforce that again. On the enterprise level these companies know how vital their vendors are to their success as a business and treat them accordingly. And so they actually manage those vendor relationships and partner with companies that they trust and established what their expectations are going to be. And so, even as a small business if you could not understand who your vendors are, and understand when they're no longer—if you know fitting your needs, and maybe a vendor that can help you grow as well grow from a smaller to a larger company. Look we all tend to feel more comfortable with organizations that work with or kind of our own size, but we may have outgrow them. Your business may outgrow them without really realizing it. The last piece of advice is keep learning. Look, big companies have advantage in bringing in different companies IT organizations, non-competitive IT organizations and kind of having round table discussing. “Now, here’s what’s happening, here’s what’s coming down the road.” You can do the same thing to others. The Data Management Association and their Society for Information Management there’s user groups there’s all kinds of ways as you can keep learning about IT and how it can affect your business. What’s coming down the road? With networks what does it work? Just like to show the frugal technology, his blog, but there’s different ways to keep learning and you should. IT could very well be or should be—they're pretty much the heart beat of your business, so there you have it. There’s some good, good information there.

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So an article I just read recently in computer world by Jake Wedman entitled Discover Our six Smart Ways to Grow Small Business IT.

And the kind of the headline and then says, “Discover few of the lessons your big business peers learn the hard way about managing world.” So here’s one of the things right here since businesses want to grow which is true small businesses will become mini size businesses. And this size of business will become big.

And like a child who always outgrows his new clothes your successful business will likely outgrow with the IT if several times before it gets bigger for that so true.

So here’s some tips that can help you manage IT growth, and I think this is real good. Number one. Put IT on your budget. It’s time for cash track companies especially young ones, but this is crucial. To make sure IT has enough money no space in your IT budget quite frankly most small business don’t know how to budget their plan for IT.

Alright, so the bottom line it took you for right here. The advise is budget 10 to 15% of salary per employee on IT, and that’s a good kind of general guideline have a number you put against the wall when you’re kind of planning on your IT budget.

Number two. Plan your IT future because a lot of small companies don’t plan for their future rather what they are doing is planning for replacement of equipment. So they are really buying to fill a gap. The problem is you end up with having dismissed smash of operating systems hard ware and software because you’ve been just kind of trying to replaced what you already have rather than investing in something that has more head room and can be expanded to the future, so that can be a dangerous situation to get into in the future, so you want to keep that in mind.

And finally, make IT well not final but make IT part of management. Your IT influence extends beyond just buying the equipment set up to software and configuring users. The small business owner has to think of IT as a part of the management team include them in discussions about what the business is going and work what his doing, so involving IT managers early in the discussions right? About the business direction allows them the opportunity to meet the businesses expectations in forms such as timing and cost. Now this is one of the things. So I think that’s very good common sense advice.

Take care of basics. Part of knowing how to allocate your IT budget is understanding what has to work, so apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs unto your IT budget, so the lowest level of pyramid is the psychological need or physiological needs of the food and water well, that’s kind of a new operation. Apply that to your operation and discussion things like email, security, data back up all these sort of things disaster recovery, reliability of your internet connection. These are types of things that will kill you if they fail. Some of these are just like the heat in your house. They operate in the background or pay attention to them until they fail out and all of the sudden you’ve got a major issue.
One of the things we like electricity use them all day everyday and they have to work when you call on them, so make sure you take care of those things right there.
A fellow by the name of Baschabb states that, “One side of your common needs as a small company are not going to be really different in terms of sophistication and the big one. The difference is just on the scale.” So keep that in mind, I think that’s really, really solid advice.

Another good point is to choose your vendors wisely. I think this is another life you're going to save, “We already know that Bruce.” Just reinforce that again. On the enterprise level these companies know how vital their vendors are to their success as a business and treat them accordingly. And so they actually manage those vendor relationships and partner with companies that they trust and established what their expectations are going to be.

And so, even as a small business if you could not understand who your vendors are, and understand when they're no longer—if you know fitting your needs, and maybe a vendor that can help you grow as well grow from a smaller to a larger company. Look we all tend to feel more comfortable with organizations that work with or kind of our own size, but we may have outgrow them. Your business may outgrow them without really realizing it.

The last piece of advice is keep learning. Look, big companies have advantage in bringing in different companies IT organizations, non-competitive IT organizations and kind of having round table discussing. “Now, here’s what’s happening, here’s what’s coming down the road.” You can do the same thing to others. The Data Management Association and their Society for Information Management there’s user groups there’s all kinds of ways as you can keep learning about IT and how it can affect your business. What’s coming down the road? With networks what does it work? Just like to show the frugal technology, his blog, but there’s different ways to keep learning and you should.

IT could very well be or should be—they're pretty much the heart beat of your business, so there you have it. There’s some good, good information there.

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