Strategic IT for SMEs: A Five Point Plan
Information Technology is more than nuts and bolts: it's a platform for reaching out to customers and suppliers, and making your team more effective. Done right, it will prepare you for growth and acquisitions. Done wrong, and it will slow you down, distract you and cost cash.
GrowthPath focuses on improving agility: the ability to move quickly. Your IT infrastructure is an important component.
Improve agility, save money
We can help you make good long term choices. If you're planning to grow, you can save money by making sure you have flexible licensing and infrastructure.
We have large corporate Merger and Acquisition experience, and we know how you can make sure your IT setup is not going to cause due-diligence problems for a potential acquirer.
Flexibility through open source and web-based software
We know when and how you should investigate saving cash by moving to web-based applications and open-source software. This approach to software has a growing number of supporters. While there are potential savings in cash, the gain in flexibility may be more important. You can scale your business much more easily, and work more collaboratively with suppliers, customers and part-time or remote peoples.
Get closer to your customers and suppliers. Increase your marketing effectiveness.
Many SMEs are missing out on the potential easy-to-use collaborative tools like wikis, linked-in, facebook.
The Five Point Plan
- Catalog important software and cost potential open-source or web-based alternatives
- Review the effectiveness of IT for business control (accuracy and speed of reporting, usefulness of reporting), plus disaster recovery readiness
- Suggest productivity improvements and review workforce IT skills
- Review the effectiveness of IT for collaboration with customers and suppliers, and he effectiveness of customer and prospect databases and customer relationship support
- Prepare a plan to enable flexibility and a quality due-diligence report in case of acquisition of another business, or sale of the current business