Here are several industry articles covering the importance of IT in the workplace. Listed below are a number of excerpts from these articles. Click the links to view the full text.
The Enterprise IT Capability Study provides clear evidence that IT matters. Better IT makes a quantifiable, positive difference in business performance.
The findings of a new, multi-country research study from Keystone Strategy, Inc., sponsored by Microsoft, and conducted under the direction of Professor Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School, found that:
- Firms with superior information technology grow faster than their peers. Managers in enterprises with better IT enjoy more insight into their business and workers are more productive.
- Measuring IT as it supports executives, managers, employees, and key business processes (rather than measuring IT investment or other proxies for the impact of IT) results in an unprecedented window into IT’s positive impact.
- Stable and robust IT infrastructure with well-implemented systems to support operations and excellent IT management practices are important in achieving these superior results…
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Are you doomed if your office computer tech quits?
By Kim Komando
It's the nightmare that most small businesses aren't prepared to face: What would happen if you suddenly lost your office computer expert? Would you be in big trouble?
The answer usually is "Yes!" But just how much anguish, time and money would an unanticipated departure cause your company's operations? Ask yourself these six questions to find out…
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7 things to expect from your IT partner
By Jeff Wuorio
Your information-technology partner business should be just that — a partner in every sense of the word. On the surface, that may sound a little warm and fuzzy, and possibly a bit optimistic.
Some IT consultants may focus on fulfilling your basic needs. They provide you technology advice and supply whatever tangible products and service are necessary to facilitate your needs…
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Why an IT partner might be your company's best friend
By Philipp Harper
When the owners of Beethoven & Company put out a distress call to a computer consultant in 2003, they were motivated by the same thing that motivates most small-business operators in such situations: a problem that no longer could be tolerated…
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