Are you feeling trapped in technology projects that are ballooning out of control? Do you feel like technology is an expense that drags you down? Not sure if you need IT staff in-house or if you should outsource? Your cry for help doesn’t have to go unnoticed. Business technology consulting can offer a wide array of solutions and offer a healthy distance from such organizational challenges.

Technology consultants are not as emotionally invested in operations in quite the same manner as business owners. It makes them more able to identify and address organizational challenges through clear-eyed strategy and assessment. Whether the issue is implementing a new technology or completing a short-term project, consulting the expertise of an unbiased and neutral party can help to push you past the churning that comes from internal politics.

Let’s take a closer look into the three signs that indicate your business needs to call in the tech experts for help.

1. Shrinking Capacity and Lack of Focus

The operational aspects of your business are taking all of your time and energy. You are so focused on fighting fires as they arise, that you don’t have time to think strategically and focus on your future. As a business owner, you may be hearing these types of statements from key stakeholders:

• We don’t have the capacity to do that.
• We don’t have the skillset on our team to do that.
• We need to first solve this issue before we move to another project.

You’re struggling to move forward and need to free your resources to focus on other key areas of your business. Technology has the power to promote efficiency, productivity and security, all while keeping your costs in check. It’s time for your organization to plug into that power.  With business technology consulting, you’ll receive expert guidance and a comprehensive roadmap to move your business ahead faster.  A good partnership will help you develop and implement new strategies to revitalize your company now and prepare it for an exciting future.

2. Pressures on In-house Expertise

Are your team and your technology all heading in the same direction? If you aren’t, tech consultants can guide you along a new path. If you don’t have subject matter experts (SMEs) with knowledge deep enough to drive you toward the right technologies, you can’t grow your business. If your current team just doesn’t have the time or capability to complete the work, you have to find help. You need professional skills and expertise. Even if you had the time for major IT projects, you might be short on in-house talent. Make the most of limited resources and take advantage of the extensive knowledge business technology consulting can provide when managing diverse IT projects.

Your long-term success could be suffering due to short-term issues. You need qualified and collaborative reinforcements to break out of the rut. Don’t your big IT projects deserve better than relegating the impactful work to leftovers and scraps of time and focus?

3. Insecure Infrastructure and Shaky Functionality

It’s not just the technology that malfunctions. Sometimes internal politics within the organization can unintentionally drive your business down a wrong path, halting the progress of securing your infrastructure.  Having a neutral expert in technology can help to steer projects away from internal politics. Connect all facets of your organization so that you can catapult ahead.

A business technology consultant will separate politics and technology, working to digitally transform your business by seizing every opportunity to secure your infrastructure and your future. Technology touches every facet of your business and business technology consulting offers a multitude of ways for you to not just keep up, but to rise above with:

• An on-demand pool of experienced professionals.
• Comprehensive assessment of current systems.
• Stakeholder and customer reviews.
• Strategic plans to transform customer service, research, manufacturing and production.
• IT projects of all levels of complexity and size.
• Recovery services to realign projects that are off-track. 
• Thoughtful integration of  artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), internet of things (IoT) and cloud analytics.
• And more.

Get more done, stress less and empower your team with collaborative business and technology consulting.  Push your business farther by functioning faster and improving clarity.

Business Technology Consulting at Afidence

At Afidence, we work to understand your needs, then provide professionals to help your team build out, scale up and crush goals according to your optimal timeline. Contact us and let’s break through your current barriers to growth together with our unbiased, real-time business and technology solutions.