Imagine a partnership where your provider makes the most money when your business is at a standstill. It may sound backward, but this is the reality of the traditional break-fix model.
When your server crashes or your network lags, their billable hours start climbing. This creates a fundamental conflict of interest: Why would a vendor work to prevent the very problems that fuel their revenue?
It’s smart to be skeptical these days. Between the constant buzz about AI and gadgets that promise the world but deliver very little, you don’t want to waste time chasing every shiny new object. Your goal is simple: run a business that is stable, profitable, and efficient.
The good news is that you don't need a computer science degree or a massive budget to make modern technology work for you.
It pays to be skeptical in today’s world of AI slop and bogus gadgets. After all, you don’t want to chase after every shiny new thing; you want to build an operation that’s both resilient and profitable. Technology offers countless opportunities to make this happen, and you don’t have to rely on fads or drain your budget to scale.
Who at your business has the organizational knowledge to keep your technology up and running? The problem with small business IT is that the information on how to keep that technology in proper working order is siloed in one particular individual’s head, whether that’s you as the business owner or one particularly tech-savvy person on your staff. By allowing this information to remain undocumented, you’re actively putting your business at risk by artificially creating a single point of failure.
As IT administrators, we spend our days securing networks and managing cloud migrations, yet one of the biggest budget leaks often sits right in the corner of the office: the printer.
If you have not taken a serious look at your organization’s printing costs lately, the numbers are staggering. The average organization spends between 1% and 3% of their annual revenue on printing. That comes out to roughly $750 per employee every year. With a strategic digital transformation, however, these costs stop skyrocketing; they start vanishing.
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