If your business has ever survived a business process realignment, from addressing the regulatory requirements to systems integration and new software implementations, you know what a huge time and budget consuming production this can be.
Bringing in an external IT consulting company can help your organization to navigate and get through a transition most effectively, and with fewer problems than with relying on your own in-house expertise. Doing so also allows for significant savings both short and especially long term.
What to expect when hiring an external IT consulting company?
1. Collective Expertise
A reputable IT consulting company adds to their collective expertise pool by hiring a highly trained IT experts. Having more than one field of expertise, properly staffed IT consulting company can provide significant advisory and implementation advantages to any small to medium size business, compared to the in-house staff or a single IT expert. The expertise also comes from alignment with various IT Partners, with added ability to bring the best of the technology to the clients.
We have some of the most stringent vetting and testing policies in our industry, for a company of any size. While striving for modern solutions, we simply will not allow our clients to be guinea pigs on cutting or bleeding edge technology.
2. Extent of Experience
Unlike a business owner who may have attempted or restructured the business once or just a few times, IT and technology consultants have experience in implementing projects for a significant number and a variety of different organizations – because that is what they do for a living. Having learned from those changes and processes in the past, IT experts can bring tremendous expertise to the table. Developing a project scope, change management plan, or working with different levels of management throughout an organization is a familiar territory to a good IT consulting team. You will benefit from their knowledge and experience needed to take advantage of best options, avoid common pitfalls or to help you overcome resistance to change from your workforce.
3. Proper Tools
Different IT experts utilize different tools, methods and procedures, depending on their field of expertise. Professionals choose the right tools for the specific business needs — tools that are operational upon engagement.
Partnering with various technology industry leaders, a professional IT company has access to the best tools tested true. A significant experience in using technology and process templates allows for solid recommendations on best solutions to be used both for the client, for example, in the managed services practices, and by the client, as in their day-to-day operations.
IT consulting company would be more familiar with the Managed Services model with focus on better ROI and quality of long-term IT solutions for your business, rather then a traditional break-fix model of basic tech support.
4. Faster Deployment
Expertise, experience and proper tools bring us to the next benefit – faster deployment. Why re-invent the wheel when you can use external IT resources and to keep your important internal resources where they belong in your business process. Adapting to proven procedure templates and models to your specific business needs and leaving materials, procedures and communication plans in expert help of IT professionals makes less room for error in both planning and implementation phases of your change management process. In the end, it simply allows for faster, more efficient deployment.
The results are that both the planning and implementation phases of your change management process can get underway within a shortened time frame.
5. Independent objectivity
Having experience with various yet similar processes before, an external consultant brings independent point of view and objectivity to what needs to be done. Every change, even most welcome, will be met with a degree of resistance, especially in the planning stages and immediately upon deployment of any project, before change is embraced and praised.
An IT consulting company professionals can help facilitate the discussion where the all of your company stakeholders’ questions, concerns, and objections are being taken into consideration to account for a positive outcome. To achieve a successful change process the business owner or a decision maker with an authority needs support from an organization as a whole. An independent consultant can help to model the objective process where senior management team members, as well as their subordinates, can be on the same page when it comes to the project goals within your business needs.
6. HR Flexibility and Savings
While you get specialized expertise, you can work with consultants on as-needed basis. It provides you with greater flexibility in the relationship while enabling you to have extra benefits for the business. While you may pay a higher hourly rate for a consulting service, your IT consulting investment will actually save you money, from obtaining more efficient and cost-effective solution to extra compensation savings:
- Save on salaries and perks
- Save on employee benefits
- Save on tax contributions
Since we have been providing IT consulting services in New Jersey, New York and surrounding local regions since 1996, we have extensive experience and expertise to handle computer environments and projects with focus on small and medium size businesses.
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