6 tips for your company's IT strategy

A company without a good technology strategy is doomed to failure.

Understanding your needs, weaknesses and, especially, your advantages in this area are essential practices to gain competitiveness and win a more productive business. Here are 6 tips for building a good IT strategy for your business:

1 - Start by planning

As always, planning is the solution! But take it easy, because planning is not just a simple table of interesting things that should be acquired in the coming months. It is essential to weigh the priorities, the manpower that will be required to work with a particular program and equipment, also the relationship between these employees, as well as the financial investment (and return) this will bring to the company.

So start by assessing the current situation of the company. Make a market mapping to punctuate the main demands and especially how your company fits into this scenario. From this, ask yourself: What do your customers think of the products and services you offer? To what extent does this match reality? What do your customers believe you will offer in the future? How far is this expectation from your present moment? With these questions answered, it will be easier to think about what type of equipment and technology to invest.

2 - Invest in communication

There is no secret: to be a good leader, it is essential to invest in constant communication and improve your business relationship. So, learn what your company's strengths are, explore the qualities of employees and address their weaknesses. What can be more strategic than using IT tools to get this data?

Invest in devices that make the results of each department common to other areas of the company, so that everyone knows what happens in each department, from the roles of employees to the results achieved and the strategies used by each one. Additionally, this integration contributes to the growth of the company's organization, as everyone will also know the profile of the clients served and the objectives that must be achieved by each employee.

To keep everyone connected, investing in mobile technology is also a great way, as updates are not limited to the physical space of the company, being able to access information from anywhere, any time of the day.

Remember: IT professionals need to be aware of the demands of the business, and from there have the technical and financial conditions to come up with alternatives that fit those issues.

3 - Target the strategies

Most successful companies have realized that a single IT model is unlikely to solve every problem and meet every need. Therefore, it is important for the IT manager to be aware of the particular needs of each department and to be able to devise a strategy that addresses these issues, even if it needs to breakdown a single strategy into several others. The more specific and timely it is, the better the result will be in practice.

So always ask yourself: is the work strategy in line with the demand? Can this improve the company's day to day business? Can the explanation of what will be done (and how) be discussed by everyone? The best way to look for solutions is to ask punctual and real questions about the company.

4 - Have a good support

This is the big joker of IT: the system. In most projects that are tied to organizational and technological change, the support system is the key to making everything go smoothly, or failing all at once.

So be assured that what was requested by the team was completely understood by the manager, otherwise the transition from theory to practice will not be successful, and the new tools will end up complicating rather than facilitating the employees' daily business.

5 - Understand the team demands

It's very cliché to say that we can't think of change if we keep acting the same way, but the big problem is that many businessmen still think that way.

Therefore, it is very worthwhile for the entrepreneur to get out of his/her comfort zone a little and circulate in his/her work environment, trying to understand the needs of the market and his/her employees. Talk to executives, listen to each department, and detect the real demands of each, and only then can you make a significant difference to your IT planning, and especially to your business strategy.

6 - Hire the best tools

Hiring a complete suite of IT lifecycle management solutions within your company will streamline processes and save you time and money.

The Tz0 suite unifies your business processes and gives your employees access to productivity. Learn everything that happens second by second on your network and be prepared for any adversity.

Contact our commercial department and learn how Trauma Zer0 can help you.