Free IT Systems Audit - Understand your IT
If you need to make cuts, make sure they're the right ones
It's always important to review your IT expenditure, and never more so than in a recession. But if you are going to make cuts in your IT expenditure, where should you make them? If you make this decision without complete knowledge of your IT systems and requirements then you risk damaging your business and spending more than you save.
Here are five ways rb|it can help you reduce your IT expenditure (both directly by reducing your operational costs and indirectly through increasing efficiency).
- Reduce planned or ongoing expenditure by exploiting open source or lower cost alternative systems (examples include network and application security, CRM and desktop applications)
- Derive more value from your existing systems (enabling latent functionality to increase efficiency or reduce expenditure on other systems or services)
- Ensure all IT capital assets are deployed to maximum effect and reuse existing systems to defer expenditure (upgrading components to extend the life of PC and server systems)
- Review IT processes to deliver maximum efficiency of your IT systems (the human <> computer interface is the most important part of your systems and is often neglected and under performs)
- Review IT staffing to ensure every resource is deployed for maximum efficiency (for example; temporary redeploying some IT staff resource to Customer Services can improve customer satisfaction and increase sales revenue)
With years of experience managing IT I know the challenges your business IT presents. To find out how I can help, complete the form on the left, or see my Contact page for other ways to reach me.
To find out more about my background and business philosophy see the About Me page.
