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4 Signs Your Information Technology Needs Some Restructuring

4 Signs Your Information Technology Needs Some Restructuring

August 12, 2024

Ideally, your business will last for years and years, but your information technology will simply not be able to do the same. This makes it essential to rework and update your business’ IT regularly. Let’s discuss a few warning signs that you need to pay attention to so you know when to do so.

4 Warning Signs That It’s Time to Restructure Your Business IT

Your Little Fixes Don’t Fix as Much

Updates and maintenance are undoubtedly important—let’s face it, they’re what our business model is effectively built around—but there’s only so much that can be done as technology ages. Eventually, patches and updates are no longer released. Therefore, a business’ IT does have an expiration date… so as your IT approaches this date, you need to proactively put together a plan to upgrade your infrastructure itself so that modern and maintained options can be implemented. This plan should address when these upgrades should be made and strategize the most effective way to approach them.

So, make sure you’re paying attention to the adjustments you make to ensure they are having the effect you need them to have.

Your Business Has Experienced Major Changes

As time passes, your business will have to shift and adjust. That’s just a fact. Many times, these shifts will be small enough that your technology can absorb them. Other times… not so much.

Business decisions of all kinds will influence your IT, and vice versa, so it will not be uncommon for your business technology to need to advance and evolve in order to keep up. Whether your operations scale upwards or your business’ approach to its operations shift entirely, it will almost assuredly require a significant change to the technology you rely upon. So, if you’re making large changes to your business as a whole, you’ll want to include your IT in your efforts.

Conversely, Your Business Rarely—If Ever—Sees Changes

Similarly, if your business has seen little movement over time, with a lack of innovation stagnating progress, it could easily signal it is high time you work on improving your technology. The hard truth of the matter is that any business today needs to compete via its technology, which means that progress and advancement are required for survival… let alone success.

If your business has been relatively stagnant, your IT may be a good place to start changing things.

You’re Stuck Playing Catch-Up

If you find that you are constantly having to put off IT projects to solve problems instead of advancing your business, constantly feeling as though you are behind the eight ball, it may be time for you to address some latent IT issues. Your business is never going to be able to improve if your focus is exclusively on catching up and making up time. Alternatively, by getting ahead of things through some proactive management, you can improve to the point where you are able to get ahead… and the right IT makes this much easier.

If Your IT is Out of Hand, We’re Here to Help

Reach out to First Column IT to learn how our proactive and outsourced IT services can help you make the most of your information technology. Give us a call at (571) 470-5594 to learn more.

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